Ir Dr. Raymond Cheung has more than thirty years’ experience in civil and geotechnical engineering. He has been involved in a number of mega infrastructure projects in Hong Kong under the Airport Core Programme, including the Airport Railway, Chek Lap Kok International Airport reclamation and Western Harbour Crossing, before joining the Hong Kong SAR Government in the late 1990s. He has published tens of technical papers and one book on various fields of civil and geotechnical engineering. He is a member of various international technical committees such as Technical Committee 205 (Safety and Serviceability) of the International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE), the School Scientific Committee of Landslide Risk Assessment and Mitigation (LARAM), and the International Network on Landslide Early Warning Systems (LandAware). He is currently Head of the Geotechnical Engineering Office (GEO) of the Civil Engineering and Development Department overseeing control of geotechnical works, setting geotechnical standards, mining operation and quarrying, tunneling and underground space development, the Landslip Prevention and Mitigation Programme, and the landslide emergency services.

Ir Dr. Raymond CHEUNG

Head of Geotechnical Engineering Office, Civil Engineering and Development Department, The HKSAR Government

Prof. Yu Huang is a professor at the College of Civil Engineering, Tongji University, and holds prestigious titles including Distinguished Professor of the Chang Jiang Scholars Program and Distinguished Young Scholar of the National Science Fund. His research focuses on the mechanisms and prevention of geological disasters, evidenced by over 160 SCI-indexed papers and five English monographs. He contributes to the academic community as an editorial board member for leading journals such as Engineering Geology and Geotechnical Research (ICE), and as a Founding Editor-in-Chief of Geohazards & Remediation. His work has been honored with numerous awards, including the First Prize of the Shanghai Natural Science Award, the First Prize of the Ministry of Education Scientific and Technological Progress Award, the Science Achievement Award from the International Consortium on Geo-disaster Reduction (ICGdR), and the Engineering Geology Outstanding Editorial Board Member Award.

Prof. Yu HUANG

Dean of the College of Civil Engineering, Tongji University

Prof. Andy Y.F. Leung is Associate Head (Partnership) and Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He also serves as Laboratory-in-charge of the CNERC Laboratory for Soil–Structure Interaction with High Performance Construction Materials (Hong Kong Branch). Prof. Leung received his BEng (The University of Hong Kong), MS (UC Berkeley), and PhD (University of Cambridge). His work advances smart geotechnology by developing and deploying novel sensing and instrumentation (including high-resolution fibre-optic monitoring) to reveal strain/stress mobilization in composite foundations and underground construction, bridging laboratory insight with field verification. He is also widely recognized for reliability- and risk-informed geotechnical design, including practical FORM-based tools and uncertainty modelling (e.g., random fields and Bayesian updating) to improve decision-making beyond traditional factors of safety. His research further covers large-deformation numerical simulation (e.g., SPH for sinkholes and DEM-based micromechanics). Prof. Leung served as President of the Hong Kong Geotechnical Society (2022–2024) and is a registered Professional Engineer (California).

Prof. Andy Y.F. LEUNG

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Prof. Shuji Moriguchi is a Professor at the International Research Institute of Disaster Science (IRIDeS), Tohoku University, in the Risk Evaluation and Disaster Mitigation Research Division, where he leads the Computational Safety Engineering Lab. He also holds a concurrent appointment in Tohoku University’s Graduate School of Engineering and contributes to the Resilient EICT Research Promotion Office / Nippon Koei joint research lab on resilient cities with digital-twin technologies. His research targets slope disasters and geo-disasters, advancing numerical simulation and modeling of hazardous mass movements such as slope failures, soil avalanches, rockfalls, landslides, and snow avalanches. A central aim of his work is to translate high-fidelity simulations into practical tools and user-ready environments that support disaster prevention and impact reduction. In parallel, he develops probabilistic risk analysis approaches for natural hazards, aided by numerical simulations. Prof. Moriguchi received the Japanese Geotechnical Society Paper Award (2006) for his work on fluid-dynamics-based simulation of geomaterial flow failure.

Prof. Shuji MORIGUCHI

International Research Institute of Disaster Science (IRIDeS), Tohoku University

Dr. Jun Yang is a full professor at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) and is internationally known for his contributions to geotechnical earthquake engineering and soil mechanics. His research is aimed to advance fundamental understanding of the complex behavior of geomaterials and to develop better engineering solutions anchored to basic concepts.  Dr. Yang has published some 160 scientific papers in leading journals in his fields and has been named by Clarivate Analytics among the world’s top 1% scholars by citations for many years. Besides fundamental research, his work on offshore piles has also been referenced by two design guides in the US. A passionate researcher with 30 years of experience, Dr. Yang has received a number of accolades for academics including the prestigious Humboldt Fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the Invitation Fellowship of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) and the Natural Science Award (First-Class) of the Ministry of Education (China). In recognition of his distinguished achievements, Professor Yang has been elected to Fellowship by several major professional societies including the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE), UK, and the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers (HKIE).

Prof. Jun YANG

Department of Civil Engineering, The University of Hong Kong

Prof. Jianhua Yin is a Distinguished Professor at Shenzhen University and an Emeritus Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He has played a leading role in development of advanced soil testing equipment, innovative fiber optical sensors, establishing a large-scale multi-purpose physical modeling facility for studying geo-hazards, organization of regional and international conferences. He serves as a Vice-President of International Association for Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics (IACMAG), a Co-Editor of International Journal of Geomechanics (ASCE), and a Co-Editor of Geomechanics and Geoengineering (UK). He has received the honors of the prestigious “JOHN BOOKER Medal” in 2008, “Chandra S. Desai Excellence Award” in 2011, and “Outstanding Contributions Medal” in 2017 from all IACMAG. He has been elected to the Fellowship of the Hong Kong Academy of Engineering and HKIE. He was selected as the high-status 2011 “Huang Wenxi Lecture” in 2011, and was elected to the Distinguished Lecturer of the Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering Division of the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering (CSCE) in 2024.

Prof. Jianhua YIN

College of Civil and Transportation Engineering, Shenzhen University

Prof. Zhongqi (Quentin) YUE is a Distinguished Professor at Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen) and an Honorary Professor of Geotechnical Engineering at The University of Hong Kong. He is a Changjiang Scholar Chair Professor and a recipient of the (Hong Kong) National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, and he is a registered Professional Engineer (Geotechnical) in Hong Kong and a Canadian PEng. He earned his BSc (earthquake geology) and MSc (geodynamics) from Peking University, and a PhD in geotechnical engineering from Carleton University. His contributions span solid, rock and soil mechanics, underground space engineering, and geohazard mitigation, notably digital-image-based numerical modelling and advanced ground characterization and monitoring. His work on the long-term stability of large underground rock caverns has been recognized by several awards from the China Society for Rock Mechanics and Engineering. He also proposes methane-gas-based mechanisms for earthquakes, volcanoes, long-runout landslides, and rockburst/large-deformation phenomena, and invented an automatic drilling process monitor (DPM) for real-time rock-mass profiling. He is listed among Stanford–Elsevier’s World’s Top 2% Scientists (career-long impact).

Prof. Zhongqi YUE

School of Science, Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen)

Prof. Limin Zhang is Head and Chair Professor of Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Wilson H. Tang Professor of Engineering at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. A recognized authority in geotechnical risk management, he advances reliability- and risk-informed approaches for slopes, landslides and debris flows, embankment dams, and deep foundations, supported by numerical modelling and centrifuge experimentation. He leads the RGC Theme-based project “Digital Twin-Empowered Landslide Emergency Risk Management” (about HK$74 million) to build a slope digital twin for sensing, simulation, and emergency decision support. His contributions have been honored with the inaugural National Engineer Award (2024), the ASCE Ralph B. Peck Award (2023) for methodologies in multi-risk assessment and risk-informed design, and a Ministry of Education of China Natural Science Award (First Class, 2019) for research on rainfall-induced colluvial slope failure and mitigation. Elected a 2025 Fellow of the Hong Kong Academy of Engineering, he also serves as Editor-in-Chief of Georisk. With over 700 publications and 31,000 citations, Prof. Zhang’s work continues to shape risk-informed geotechnical practice worldwide.

Prof. Limin ZHANG

Head of Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Prof. Jidong Zhao is Professor of Computational Geomechanics in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and Director of the Computational Granular Mechanics Lab. His research develops scalable, physics-based computational methods to simulate multiscale and multiphysics behavior of granular media and porous materials, linking grain- and pore-scale processes such as particle morphology, frictional contact, rolling/sliding, and multiphase pore-fluid flow to macroscopic phenomena such as strain localization, liquefaction, anisotropy, collapse and phase transitions. Currently, Prof. Zhao serves as a co-Editor-in-Chief for Computers and Geotechnics, editor for Granular Matter, and associate editor for the Journal of Engineering Mechanics (ASCE). He holds leadership roles in international geomechanics committees and serves as grant assessor for funding agencies including ERC, DFG, NSERC, ARC, NCN, and RGC. He has received multiple prestigious awards, including the "Scott Sloan Best Paper Award" in 2018 and 2021, the first-class Natural Science Award of MOE in 2021, the JSPS Invitational Fellowship in 2023, and the 2025 Chandrakant S. Desai Excellence Medal (IACMAG). He has authored over 170 papers in peer-reviewed journals with over 11,790 citations on Google Scholar and a h-index of 60.

Prof. Jidong ZHAO

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology