Dr. Ramesh Guragain, working as a Deputy Executive Director at National Society for Earthquake Technology-Nepal (NSET) has PhD on Earthquake Engineering from The University of Tokyo. He joined NSET in 1999 and working in the field of earthquake risk management since then. The countries of working experience are mainly in Nepal, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Iran, Agfhanistan and shortly in other countries in South/south-east Asia. Earthquake risk assessment of buildings, infrastructures and urban/rural settlements in Nepal and the south Asian region is one of the major program areas that Ramesh is leading from NSET in recent years. Seismic vulnerability assessment of public school buildings in Kathmandu Valley; 20 major hospitals in Nepal; more than 100 office and private residences in Nepal; water supply system of Kathmandu valley; selected public and private buildings in Bhutan; development of fragility functions for non-engineered buildings in Bangladesh; earthquake risk assessment of five different cities in Nepal; three cities in Pakistan, and nine cities in Bangladesh are some of the major activities related to this area that NSET implemented in his leadership. He has also lead a team of professionals at NSET for development of several training curricula and provided trainings to different target audiences.

Prof. Chung-Chan Hung is Distinguished Professor of Civil Engineering at the National Cheng Kung University (NCKU). He is the Director of the NCKU Research Center for Earthquake Engineering and Vibration Control. He also serves as Adjunct Research Fellow at the National Center for Research on Earthquake Engineering, Taiwan. He received his M.S. in Mechanical Engineering and Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 2010. He served as Visiting Professor at the UC Berkeley in 2018 and 2019. Prof. Hung’s recent research activities include high-strength RC structures, high-performance fiber-reinforced cementitious materials and structures, and structural retrofitting. He has published over 100 technical papers and reports, including 60 refereed journal papers in major publication venues. Prof. Hung serves as Associate Editor for the ASCE Journal of Structural Engineering. He was Guest Editor for the ASCE JSE’s Special Collection on "RC Structures with High and Ultra-high Performance Materials". Prof. Hung was a member of the International Scientific Advisory Committee for International Interactive Symposium on Ultra-High Performance Concrete.

Curriculum Vitae of Prof. Jin-Hung Hwang

Prof. Wen-Cheng Liao is a professor at National Taiwan University. He got his Ph.D. from University of Michigan in 2010. His primary research interests focus on innovative cementitious materials, as well as application of high performance fiber reinforced concrete in earthquake-resistant structure, and deformation of concrete.

Prof. Tzu-Kang Lin is currently the professor and chair in the department of civil Engineering at the National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU). He also serves as an adjunct research fellow at the National Center for Research on Earthquake Engineering (NCREE). He received his Ph.D. in structural engineering from National Taiwan University in 2002, and was invited as a visiting scholar at the department of civil and environmental engineering at Stanford University in 2007. His research major includes structural health monitoring, smart structure, bridge engineering, bio-inspired applications, and artificial intelligence. He has published more than 90 technical papers and reports including 67 reviewed journal papers and holds four patents in civil engineering-related fields. Prof. Lin serves as the director in several professional societies and the member of the EU COST Action. He received the Future Tech Award from National Science and Technology Council in 2022.

Prof. Lyan-Ywan Lu earned his Ph.D. degree in civil engineering from Duke University, USA. Prof. Lu is currently a professor at the Department of Civil Engineering, National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), Tainan, Taiwan, and also an adjunct research fellow at National Center for Research on Earthquake Engineering (NCREE, Taiwan). He was invited as a visiting scholar at Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center, University of California at Berkeley in 2103. His research achievement has been primarily in developing advanced seismic isolation and mitigation technologies and their tests, applications, and performance assessment. He has published more than eighty research articles in peer-reviewed journals and been serving as a reviewer or editorial board member for more than twenty SCI-indexed international journals. Prof. Lu was also the recipient of several Outstanding Research Awards and more than 40 research grants funded by the National Science and Technology Council or Ministry of Education of Taiwan. Prof. Lu is currently the chief editor of Structural Engineering Journal published by the Society of Structural Engineering (SSE) in Taiwan, and was the Chair of Seismic Isolation and Mitigation Committee (SIMC) of Taiwanese Society of Earthquake Engineering (TSSE). The task of SIMC is to advance the technologies on seismic structural control in Taiwan. He also served as a Council member for SSE and TSSE and an advisory committee member of the NCREE.

Curriculum Vitae of Prof. Yu-Chen Ou

Curriculum Vitae of Dr. Chih-Hsuan Sung

Prof. Georgios Tsampras is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Structural Engineering at the University of California San Diego. His research interests focus on earthquake structural engineering. His research goal is to improve the safety and performance of structures subjected to earthquakes. To accomplish this goal, Prof. Georgios Tsampras conducts multi-scale integrated experimental and analytical research for the development of structural components, structural connections, and reduced-damage structural systems that enhance the safety, the reliability, and the efficiency of structures.

Prof. Tony Yang is a professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at The University of British Columbia. He received his B.Sc. (2001) and M.Sc. (2002) from the University of Buffalo, New York, and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 2006. His researches focus on the improving the structural performance through advanced analytical simulation and experimental testing. He has developed the next-generation performance-based design guidelines (adopted by the Applied Technology Council, the ATC-58 research team) in the United States; developed advanced experimental testing technologies, such as hybrid simulation and nonlinear control of shake table, to evaluate structural response under extreme loading conditions; developed risk-based simulation models for countries in the North and South America and the Global Earthquake Model (GEM) for the counties in the South East Asia. Prof. Yang’s research has been well applied to national and international research and code committees. He has published over 100 peer reviewed journal papers and given over 100 invited speeches in many leading research institutes worldwide. Prof. Yang is one of the 19 voting members of the Standing Committee for Earthquake Design, which is responsible for writing the seismic design provision of the 2020/2025 National Building Code of Canada (NBCC). Prof. Yang is also a committee member of S16, which is responsible for writing the seismic design provision of steel structures in the Canada. Prof. Yang is an active member of the Tall Buildings Initiative Project which has developed seismic design guidelines for tall buildings in the West Coast of United States. Prof. Yang’s work has been well recognized by his colleagues, he is the recipient of the 2014 CISC H.A. Krentz award, 2019 Technology award from the New Zealand Concrete Society and 2020 Meritorious achievement award from Engineers & Geoscientists British Columbia Canada, the most prestigious award given to professional engineer (P.Eng.) in the province of British Columbia, Canada.