Speakers

Prof. Danqing Song

South China University of Technology，China

Profile: Danqing Song holds the positions of Professor and Ph.D. supervisor at South China University of Technology, alongside the Deputy Director of the Development Strategy and Planning Office. He serves on the councils of numerous academic organizations, including the Red Bed Engineering Slope Branch, the Ground Rock Engineering Professional Committee, and the Landslide and Engineering Slope Branch of the Chinese Society for Rock Mechanics and Engineering, as well as the Underground Engineering Professional Committee of the Guangdong Society of Civil Engineering and Architecture and the Guangzhou Society for Ecological Safety and Construction. His research career has been dedicated to exploring rock mass engineering geological mechanics pertinent to slopes (including landslides), tunnels, and underground caverns. His primary research interests lie in the dynamiceffects of rock mass structures, rock mass dynamic disasters, monitoring, early warning, and mitigation of geological hazards, as well as intelligent construction techniques in underground engineering. Professor Song has contributed to evaluations and preventive measures for significant landslides, high slopes, and deformation stability assessments of deeply buried tunnels in major projects such as the Sichuan-Tibet Railway, the Three Gorges, Jiudianxia on the upper reaches of the Yellow River, Heifangtai, and the Xianggelila Expressway in the middle reaches of the Jinsha River. He has authored 99 SCI/EI papers (84 SCI and 15 EI), with two of his papers being recognized as ESI Highly Cited Papers in 2020 and one as a Hot Paper in 2023. As the first or corresponding author, he has published 55 SCI papers (including 16 in top-tier journals) and 12 EI papers in prestigious journals within the fields of engineering geology and geotechnical engineering, such as Engineering Geology, Landslides, Acta Geotechnica, and Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering. His SCI papers have been cited over 1,200 times, with an H-index of 20. Furthermore, Professor Song has co-authored three industry/group standards, submitted applications for 36 (international) invention patents and six utility model patents, and holds 22 software copyrights.

Prof. Wen Nie

Jiangxi University of Science and Technology,China

Profile: Born in October 1982, Wen Nie holds the dual titles of Professor and Researcher at the School of Resources and Environmental Engineering, Jiangxi University of Science and Technology. In 2005, he graduated from Chongqing University with an undergraduate degree, followed by a master’s degree in 2011 from the same institution. He subsequently completed his doctoral studies at the Technical University of Munich in Germany in 2017. Since 2017, Nie Wen has served in multiple roles at the Quanzhou Institute of Equipment Manufacturing of the Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, including Researcher, Academic Leader, and Research Group Leader, while maintaining his position as a Professor at Jiangxi University of Science and Technology. Additionally, he has concurrently held positions as an Editorial Board Member for the Geological Sciences Section of an international conference, Secretary-General of the China-Europe High-Tech Equipment Technology and Industry Association, and Guest Researcher at both the State Key Laboratory of Geohazard Prevention and Geoenvironment Protection at Chengdu University of Technology and the State Key Laboratory of Coal Mine Disaster Dynamics and Control at Chongqing University. His primary research revolves around the prediction & warning of mine disasters and intelligent mining technologies.

Prof. Jianwei Zhang

Henan University, China

Profile:

Dr. Jianwei Zhang, Professor and PhD Supervisor, holds the dual role of Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee and Executive Dean at the School of Civil Architecture and Engineering, Henan University. Additionally, he serves as Director of the Henan Engineering Research Center for Intelligent Preservation and Restoration of Historic Buildings, Director of the Institute of Geotechnical and Rail Transit Engineering at Henan University, Member of the Engineering Surveying Professional Committee of the Seismological Society of China, Member of the Youth Committee within the Environmental Geotechnics Branch of the Chinese Society for Rock Mechanics and Engineering, Communication Review Expert for the National Natural Science Foundation of China, Executive Director of the Henan Association of Construction Education, and Key Young Teacher at Colleges and Universities in Henan Province. He also holds the positions of a Nationally Certified Civil Engineer (geotechnical) and an Editorial Board Member of Biogeotechnics. 

Dr. Zhang’s research primarily revolves around environmental geotechnics, microbial geotechnical reinforcement techniques, and pile foundation engineering. He has spearheaded and contributed to two projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and eleven provincial and ministerial projects. His academic output includes 63 published papers, with 29 indexed in SCI and EI, five authored academic books and textbooks, and eight national patents. He has been recognized with six scientific and technological awards, notably the Science and Technology Progress Award of Henan Province. His teaching portfolio encompasses courses such as Soil Mechanics, Geotechnical Engineering Investigation, and Environmental Geotechnics. To date, he has successfully supervised 19 graduate students for their graduation.

Asst. Prof.Cong Ma

Shenzhen University, China

Profile:Cong Ma, a male engineering doctorate holder, is currently an Assistant Professor and Master’s Supervisor in the College of Civil and Transportation Engineering, Shenzhen University. His research zeroes in on road maintenance materials, materials for improving railway structural performance, and advancements in infrastructure operations and maintenance. Over the past five years, he has authored or co-authored over 60 publications, serving as the first or corresponding author, with 50 of these indexed in SCI, 38 within the JCR Q1 zone, and 13 in the top tier of the Chinese Academy of Sciences classification. These papers collectively embrace a total impact factor exceeding 230, with an H-index of 22. Currently, Ma serves as a reviewer for numerous prestigious SCI journals, including the Journal of Cleaner Production, Cement and Concrete Composites, Construction and Building Materials, and Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering. Ma has led more than ten research projects, including a key research and development program under China’s 14th Five-Year Plan, two projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, one provincial natural science foundation project, and several other vertical and horizontal research initiatives. His academic accomplishments include receiving the Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Award from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2017 (one of only 13 recipients across the university), being named one of the “Top Ten Students of the Year” at Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2016, participating in a project that won the Second Prize for Science and Technology Progress Award of Guangxi Province, and earning the Third Prize in the Fourth National Teaching Competition for Young Teachers of Civil Engineering Materials. Furthermore, he has been awarded the Second Prize for Science and Technology Progress Award of Guangdong Province and the Second Prize for Science and Technology Award from the China Communications and Transportation Association.