Dr. YongLiu is currently a professor in the School of Water Resources and Hydropower Engineering, and vice-director of the Institute of Engineering Risk and Disaster Prevention, Wuhan University. In the area of geotechnics, he has a strong interest in seepage problems in dam embankments, uncertainty quantification, as well as efficient stochastic analysis methods and applications of large-scale geotechnical structures.He published more than 90 academic papers in Géotechnique, ASCE-JGGE and other peer-viewed journals, among which twowere selected as ESI highly cited papers. In 2017, he won the Best Paper Award from the International Sabatino Cuomo, Coordinator of LARAM School (International School on "LAndslide Risk Assessment and Mitigation) for PhD students, http://www.laram.unisa.it/ . Management Director of ICGDR (International Consortium on Geo-disaster Reduction), https://icgdr.com/ Associate Editor of Geoenvironmental Disaster Journal, Springer Nature, https://geoenvironmental-disasters.springeropen.com/ Board Officer for the Italian Chapter of IGS (International Geosynthetics Society), https://www.geosyntheticssociety.org/ Research Topics including: Landslide Mechanisms, Solid-fluid transition, Landslide Dynamics, Regional slope stability, Slope erosion, Geosynthetics reinforcement, Laboratory testing of unsaturated soils, Constitutive Modelling. More than 100 international publications (most in peer-reviewed international ISI Journals). International Cooperation: UPM Madrid, Université Grenoble, NTNU Trondheim, Universitè Geneve, Northwestern University Chicago USA, University Rijeka Croaztia, Beijing University China Editorial Board Member of International Journals: Canadian Geotechnical Journal, Soils and Foundations, ICE Journal of Geotechnical Engineering, Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment, Geoenvironmental Disasters, International Journal of Geosynthetics and Ground Engineering, Journal of Mountain Science. Conference on Transportation Infrastructure and Materials. He has served as editorial board member of severalinternational journals. Prof Junsheng Yang is the professor of School of Civil Engineering,at the Central South University of China. He obtained his PhD from Central South University,and completed both his undergraduate and graduate studies at the Hunan University of Science and Technology, Anhui University of Science and Technology,respectively. He had worked as the visiting scholar in the the Pennsylvania State University,USA,and TU Bergakademie Freiberg,Germany. His research areas/interests included Tunnel and Underground Works, Rock Mechanics and Engineering.Prof. Yang has authored, co-authored over two hundred articles in peer reviewed journals, book chapters, and conference proceedings.
