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Wan-Huan Zhou is currently Head and Professor of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Macau. Prof. Zhou received her B.Eng. degree in 2002 and M.Sc. degree in 2005 from Zhejiang University in China and Ph.D. in Geotechnical Engineering from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2008. After graduation, she worked as a lecturer at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University and later joined the University of Macau in September 2009. She has acted as the Principal Investigator (PI) on 15 research projects, including the 2020 Excellent Young Scientists Fund (HK and Macau) from the National Natural Science Foundation of China. She has published more than 70 SCI indexed articles in topranked geotechnical journals. She also serves as an editorial board member in several top geotechnical engineering journals, such as the Canadian Geotechnical Journal and the International Journal of Geomechanics.

Zhen-Yu Yin is currently Professor ofGeotechnical Engineering at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Prof. Yin received his B.Eng. in Civil Engineering from Zhejiang University in 1997, followed by five years of engineering consultancy at the Zhejiang Jiahua Architecture Design Institute. Then, he obtained his MSc and Ph.D. in Geotechnical Engineering at Ecole Centrale de Nantes (France) in 2003 and 2006, respectively. Prof. Yin has published over 220 articles in peer-reviewed international journals with an H index of 48 according to Web of Science. He is Associate Committee Member of Granular Materials Committee of American Society of Civil Engineers; Associate Editor of “European Journal of Environmental and Civil Engineering” and “Geotechnique Letters”; and Editorial BoardMembers of some top journals in the field of soil mechanics and geotechnical engineering (Canadian Geotechnical Journal, International Journal of Geomechanics ASCE, Soils and Foundations, Acta Geotechnica, Transportation Geotechnics, Computers and Geotechnics, etc.).