Conference Chairs

Wei Liu, Researcher, Secretary of the Party Committee, Chief, China

China Merchants Chongqing Communications Technology Research & Design Institute Co., Ltd.

Wei Liu, Researcher, Secretary of the Party Committee, Chief, China China Merchants Chongqing Communications Technology Research & Design Institute Co., Ltd. Serves as the director of the national mountain highway engineering technology research center. Experts who enjoy the special allowance of the State Council, model workers of the national transportation system, academic and technical leaders of Chongqing, and national leading talents of Shenzhen.

Xiuli Du, Academician, Vice President, China

Beijing University of Technology

Professor Xiuli Du is currently the vice president of Beijing University of Technology, doctoral supervisor and leader of civil engineering discipline. He has successively won honorary titles of National Natural Science Foundation of China Innovation Research Group, National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, Beijing Strategic Scientist, Beijing Scholar and National Excellent Scientific and Technological Worker. He graduated from the Institute of Engineering Mechanics of China Seismological Bureau with a doctor's degree in 1990. He was promoted to professor level senior engineer in 1996 and transferred to Beijing University of Technology as a teacher in 2001. For a long time, Professor Du has been engaged in teaching and scientific research in the front line, has been committed to engineering seismic research and engineering practice, and has made significant contributions in the field of structure foundation surrounding soil coupling seismic resistance. In 2021, he was elected as an academician of the CAE Member. 

Prof. Du has successively presided over and completed five national level major projects, including major integration and innovation groups of major research programs of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, Ministry of Science and Technology 973 and science and technology support, and nearly 100 other projects. He won 5 second prizes of the National Science and Technology Progress Award (2 of which ranked first and 3 of which ranked third), and 4 first prizes of provincial and ministerial science and technology progress awards (2 of which ranked first). In addition, he has published more than 200 papers in high-quality journals at home and abroad as the first or corresponding author, and published 6 Chinese and English monographs. He was granted 21 invention patents as the first inventor (including 4 foreign patents). He participated in the compilation of 5 national or industrial codes/standards. Among the students he has trained, two have won the support of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, and one has won the National Excellent Doctoral Thesis.

Jianting Zhou, Professor, Vice President, China

Chongqing Jiaotong University

Jianting Zhou, Distinguished Professor of the Changjiang Scholars Award Program of the Ministry of Education, Recipient of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, National Outstanding Science and Technology Workers, the First Batch of Leading Talents of Science and Technology Innovation of the Ministry of Science and Technology, National Candidate of New Century Hundred Million Talents Project, Outstanding Scientist of the First Chongqing Talent Program. He got the First Chongqing Outstanding Talent Award and the innovation team of "Bridge Condition Awareness and Advanced Maintenance" he led, which was selected as one of the first Chongqing natural science foundation innovation groups and the 2019 Transportation Industry Science and Technology Innovation Talent Program - Key Field Innovation Team.