Advanced Tunneling Techniques and Information Modeling of Underground Infrastructure: Proceedings of the 6th GeoChina International Conference on Civil & Transportation Infrastructures: From Engine...

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J. James Yang is an Associate Professor of Civil Engineering in the College of Engineering at University of Georgia. He received his Ph.D. degree from the University of South Florida. He is a professionally registered transportation engineer with a research interest in sustainable and resilient infrastructure systems smart mobility systems statistical and econometric methods artificialintelligence and machine learning methods and applications. His work has generated several patents and over 40publications in refereed journals and conference proceedings. He currently sits on the Editorial Board of ASCE Journal of Infrastructure Systemsthe TRB AED50 committee: Artificial Intelligence andAdvanced Computing Applicationsand the Transportation Demand Management Coordinating Committee (TDM-CC) of AtlantaRegional Commission.  Dr.Wen-ChiehCheng is a Professor of Geotechnical Engineering in the School of Civil Engineering at Xian University of Architecture andTechnology. He received his Ph.D. degree from the National Taipei University of Technology. He is a professionally registered civilengineer with a research interest in sustainable and resilient infrastructure systems soil contamination and remediation strategies trenchlessmethods artificial intelligence and machine learning methods and applications. His work has generated several international patents and over 70publications in refereed journals and conference proceedings. He currently sits on the Editorial Board of ICE Geotechnical Research journaland the ISSMGETC213 committee: Scour and Erosion.Dr. Shuying Wang is a professor of Tunnel Engineering in School of Civil Engineering Central South University. He obtained his B.E. and M.S. degreesfrom Central South University respectively in 2005 and 2007 and then earned the Ph.D. degree in Missouri University of Science and Technology (Rolla USA) in 2011. His research interests includeConditioning Mechanismand Handling Technology of Special Soils Tunneling Mechanism and Safety Control Technology. He has been hosting about 30 research projects one of which is National Natural Science Foundation-Outstanding Youth Foundation. So far more than 70 papers have been published and 14 patents have been authorized. Additionally he has gotten one monograph and one textbook pressed in Springer. Dr. Wang won the second prize of science and technology progress of Ministry of Education in 2019 (in the first place) and that of Hunan Province in 2017 (in the third place). He serves as an editorial board member for three journals such as Journal of Testing and Evaluation (ASTM) Chinese Journal of Highway etc.