**About the Editors**

#### **Danial Jahed Armaghani**

Dr. Danial Jahed Armaghani is a lecturer and researcher in Civil Engineering. He received his postdoctorate degree from Amirkabir University of Technology, Iran, in 2018, and his Ph.D. and master's degrees in civil geotechnics from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia, in 2015 and 2012, respectively. His areas of research are mechanised tunnelling, rock mechanics, piling technology, concrete and green concrete technology, transportation geotechnics, blasting environmental issues, reliability and risk assessment, applying artificial intelligence, and optimisation algorithms in different areas of civil engineering. Dr. Armaghani is internationally renowned for his significant number of publications and citations. He has published over 250 papers in top-ranked journals and conferences in the field of civil engineering. Based on his excellent academic achievement during his PhD and the years following, Dr. Armaghani has been recognised with several prestigious international awards. He was among the World's Top 2% of Scientists in 2020, 2021, and 2022, according to Stanford University. Dr. Armaghani has served or currently serves as an Associate Editor, Editorial Board Member and Guest Editor for several well-established journals.

#### **Yixia Zhang**

Yixia Zhang is a Professor of Engineering at the School of Engineering, Design and the Built Environment at Western Sydney University. She is the Deputy Director of the Urban Transformation Research Centre, and Discipline Lead of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Before moving to WSU in 2019, she worked at the University of New South Wales for 15 years, 12 of which were spent at UNSW, Canberra. She received her PhD in structural engineering from the University of Hong Kong in 2001. Prof. Zhang is a research leader in construction sustainability and structural resilience, and has strong expertise in computational mechanics and advanced composite materials and structures, including construction and building materials in civil engineering and composites in mechanical and aeronautical engineering. She has published one book, edited four books, and has 24 book chapters and over 360 peer-reviewed scholarly research papers (including more than 170 research papers in top international journals) to her name. She has been awarded research grants of over AUD 14 million from various funding schemes, including the ARC, defence, industries and government.

#### **Pijush Samui**

Pijush Samui is a working professor in the Civil Engineering Department of NIT Patna, India. He received his PhD in Geotechnical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Science Bangalore in 2008. His research interests include geohazards; earthquake geotechnical engineering; concrete technology, pile foundation and slope stability and application of AI in civil engineering. He has published more than 21 books, 32 book chapters and over 200 research papers in high impact factor journals as well as 30 conference proceedings.

#### **Ahmed Hussein Kamel Ahmed Elshafie**

A. El-Shafie received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. from the Department of Civil Engineering from Cairo University, Giza, Egypt in 1993 and 1998, respectively. In 2003, he received his Ph.D. in water resources management and planning from the Department of Civil Engineering, Cairo University under a collaborative academic channel program with the Civil Engineering Department, University of Calgary; Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Between 2004 and 2007, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at both Royal Military College of Canada and Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada. Between 2007–2015, he is an Associate Professor with the Smart Engineering System, Department of Civil & Structural Engineering, University Kebangsaan Malaysia; Malaysia. Presently he is a Professor with the Department of Civil Engineering, University of Malaya. His research interest is related to artificial intelligence techniques with their applications to several engineering applications giving emphasis to hydrological process, environmental and water resources, dam and reservoir operation, and multi-sensor system integration. He has more than 350 research manuscripts that have been published in highly prestigious scientific journals and published 5 books as well.

#### **Aydin Azizi**

Dr. Aydin Azizi holds a PhD degree in Mechanical Engineering-Mechatronics, an MSc in Mechatronics and a BSc in Mechanical Engineering-Heat & Fluids. Certified as the Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA), official instructor for the Siemens Mechatronic Certification Program (SMSCP) and the editor of the book series Emerging Trends in Mechatronics publishing by Springer Nature Group, he currently serves as a Senior Lecturer at the Oxford Brookes University. His current research focuses on investigating and developing novel techniques to model, control and optimize complex systems. Dr. Azizi's areas of expertise include Control & Automation, Artificial Intelligence and Simulation Techniques. Dr. Azizi is the recipient of the National Research Award of Oman for his AI-focused research, DELL EMC's "Envision the Future" competition award in IoT for "Automated Irrigation System", and 'Exceptional Talent' recognition by the British Royal Academy of Engineering.