Prof. Norman Abrahamson is an internationally known expert in seismic hazard and risk analyses with 30 years of experience in the practical application of engineering seismology to develop deterministic and probabilistic seismic criteria for engineering design and evaluations of seismic risk. The focus of his work has been the interface between the earth sciences and earthquake engineering. He has been involved in developing or reviewing design ground motions for hundreds of projects worldwide, including dams, bridges, nuclear power plants, nuclear waste repositories, water and gas pipelines, rail lines, ports, landfills, hospitals, electric substations, and office buildings. Prof. Abrahamson is an adjunct professor at UC Berkeley, and UC Davis. At these two schools, he teaches a graduate course on seismic hazard analyses, development of design time histories, and seismic risk. He has also taught this course as a visiting lecturer at UCLA, UC San Diego, Stanford, U. Texas Austin, and the Rose School (Italy). At UC Berkeley, he is co-chair of the Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center (PEER) NGA-west, NGA-east and NGA-Sub projects which are developing new ground motion models for the eastern US, western US, and subduction zones, respectively. These three projects involve a combination of university faculty, USGS scientists, and industry consultants. Prof. Abrahamson is currently a member of the National Seismic Hazard Mapping Program Steering Committee for the USGS. He is also a member of the Caltrans Seismic Advisory Board and the California High Speed Rail Technical Advisory Panel addressing seismic issues. Previously, he has been on seismic advisory panels for the San Francisco Bay Bridge the San Francisco PUC, and the Advisory Council on Earthquake Hazard Reduction (ACEHR) which provides a review of the NEHRP program for NIST. Over the last 10 years, he has been the co-organizer of the COSMOS annual technical meeting that addresses ground motion issues for practicing consulting earthquake engineers and hazard analysts.

Prof. Kuo-Chun Chang is currently Distinguished Professor of the Department of Civil Engineering of National Taiwan University (NTU). Before joining the faculty of National Taiwan University in 1991, he worked as Research Assistant Professor and Associate Professor at the State University of New York at Buffalo and National Center for Earthquake Engineering Research at Buffalo for 6 years. For the past 30 years of teaching and research career, he has supervised more than 20 Ph.D. students and 100 master students from the United States and Taiwan on their thesis. Prof. Chang’s research experiences relate to earthquake engineering and multiple hazards for buildings and bridges include seismic behavior and retrofit of conventional reinforced concrete structures, development of new seismic isolation and energy dissipation systems and structural health monitoring systems, and seismic behavior of precast segmental concrete bridge columns. In addition, he has been involved in the development of design codes and guidelines related to seismic design of buildings and bridges in Taiwan. His current research interests include structural control, innovative bridge bearing systems, multiple hazards structural health monitoring systems with advanced sensor technologies and the seismic behavior of bridges under near fault earthquake ground motions. Prof. Chang has published over 200 peer reviewed journal papers and more than 300 conference papers, and owned a dozen of patents related to his research. He served as the past Director of National Center for Research on Earthquake Engineering (NCREE) for 7 years, past department chair of civil engineering department of National Taiwan University for 6 years and the past presidents of the Chinese Structural Association and Chinese Taiwan Society of Earthquake Engineering. He was the recipient of the “2014 University at Buffalo Alumni Association International Distinguished Alumni Award” and one of the recipients of the 2016 “Gunghua Engineering Science and Technology Award”. In addition, he has hosted many domestic and international conferences and workshops in Taiwan, and was invited as the member of the scientific committee of some international conferences.

Dr. Shih-Ho (Simon) Chao is ACPA Tom Wheelan Endowed Professor and Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Arlington. He received his Ph.D. degree in Structural and Materials Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 2005. He has served on several technical committees including American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC) Task Committee 9 – Seismic Systems. He is an Associate Editor of the ASCE Journal of Structural Engineering. Dr. Chao is the co-author of two books: Prestressed Concrete Analysis and Design: Fundamentals, 4th Edition (2022), and Performance-Based Plastic Design—Earthquake Resistant Steel Structures (2008). He was the recipient of the ACI (American Concrete Institute) Mete A. Sozen Award for Excellence in Structural Research, the ACI Chester Paul Siess Award for Excellence in Structural Research, the AISC Milek Young Researcher Fellowship Award, University of Texas System Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Award, and UTA President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Prof. Tung-Yang Chen is a chair professor of civil engineering department at National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan. He received his PhD degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with a research background in mechanics and physics of composite media. Today he is conducting various investigations on elastic and thermal metamaterials. Metamaterials utilize their internal structures and constituent materials to interact with the incoming waves, causing them to interfere with each other destructively to attenuate wave energy or to detour their original propagation paths. These properties can be applied to control the scattering of waves in a certain frequency interval, achieving energy attenuation effects. Professor Chen is currently leading a team on seismic metamaterials, collaborating with professors in a number of universities and also researchers from NCREE, on a three-year NSTC-funded project. Dr. Chen has broad research collaborations with scientists in the US, Israel, and Europe. He received the Academic Award from the Ministry of Education and the Outstanding Research Awards from NSTC, Taiwan.

Prof. Kazuhiko Kasai is an internationally recognized researcher and educator in the areas of steel structure, response control, and earthquake engineering. He lead major research projects whose total budget exceeds 15 million dollars, and attracted more than 4 million dollars for his own research interest. For 22 years, Prof. Kasai was the chairman of Response Control Committee and the chairman of Passive Control Effects Sub-Committee, Japan Society of Seismic Isolation (JSSI), significantly contributing to Japan’s technology for building response control. He was also the chairman of Steel Passive Control Sub-Committee, Architectural Institute of Japan (AIJ), and various committees in Japan. He was the Japan-side leader of E- Defense steel building research and US-Japan projects including major full-scale shake-table tests on conventional structure and value-added or response-controlled structures. He is also the Japan-side leader of the Strategic China-Japan (National Natural Science Foundation of China and Japan Science and Technology Agency) Cooperative Program, with focus on seismic evaluation and mitigation technologies for tall buildings. Prof. Kasai was the chief editor for “JSSI Manual for Design and Construction of Passively Controlled Building, the 1st to the 3rd editions”, the chief editor for all the AIJ monthly journals, and the guest editor for the special issue “Japan’s Advanced Technology for Building Seismic Protection”, Journal of Disaster Research.

Prof. Junji Kiyono is a Professor of Earthquake/Lifeline Engineering laboratory in the Department of Urban Management, Kyoto University, Japan. He has been studying earthquake engineering which covers a wide field from a study of strong ground motion prediction nearby seismic fault zone to the investigations of the mechanisms causing the structural and human damage by earthquakes. He graduated Kyoto University, and received his Master of Engineering Degree (1981) and Doctor of Engineering (1992) from Kyoto University. He worked at Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University from 1981 to 1993, Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Yamaguchi University from 1994 to 1997, and Faculty of Engineering, Kyoto University from 1997 to date. He was dispatched to many earthquake damaged areas in and outside of Japan to investigate damage to infrastructures, earthquake ground motion and casualty occurrence mechanism. He has continued disaster prevention education in Indonesia during fourteen years with his students from 2005 after the 2004 Sumatra Earthquake. He was dispatched to Turkey totally six months as an expert of JICA. He was a leader of disaster prevention research group for the mission-oriented program (project term: 2001-2005) in the Research Institute of Science and Technology for Society (managed by the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST)) which aims at solving various problems in our society through the development of knowledge systems based on science and technology. He is a president of the Japan Association of Earthquake Engineering (2021.5-). Now he is a Japanese supporting member of AUN/SEED-Net (2008-) and JICA Myanmar Project for Enhancement of Engineering Higher Education (1st phase 2013-2020, 2nd phase 2021-2024).

Prof. Chin-Hsiung Loh is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Civil Engineering at the National Taiwan University. He received his Ph.D. degree in Civil Engineering from the National Taiwan University in 1980. He is also an Advisor at the National Taiwan Center for Research Earthquake Engineering, Taiwan. Prof. Loh's research interests include structural health monitoring & system identification, signal processing, ground motion analysis.

Prof. Kuo-Fong Ma is a Distinguished Research Fellow at the Institute of Earth Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei. Director of Earthquake- Disaster & Risk Evaluation and Risk Management (E-DREaM) Center, National Central University, Taoyuan, Taiwan. Chief Scientist of Taiwan Earthquake Research Center (TEC), funded by the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST). Her research interests include earthquake seismology, earthquake physics, engineering and seismotectonics. She currently serves the Chair of Chinese Geoscience Union and the Governing Board of Global Earthquake Model. She received several national awards, including the National Science Council Distinguished Research Award, National Award of Ministry of Education Academic Award in 2007, Outstanding Female Scientist Award in 2011; the National Professorship of the Ministry of Education in 2013; the fellow of American Geophysical Union in 2019; AOGS Axford Medal in 2021.

Curriculum Vitae of Prof. Gregory MacRae

Prof. Andres Oreta is a professor at the Department of Civil Engineering (Structural Engineering Division) of De La Salle University (DLSU), Manila, Philippines. He obtained his Doctor of Engineering (1994) and Master of Engineering (1991) from Nagoya University (Japan) and BS Civil Engineering from the University of the Philippines (1983). He was a former chair of the CE Dept. (1994-1997), Engineering Graduate Studies Director (1997-1999), CE Dept. QA Coordinator (2014-2015) and GCOE Quality Assurance Office Director (2015-2016). He was the lead person of the CE Dept. in the implementation of Outcomes Based Education (OBE) in the dept.. He was an ASEP Outstanding Achievement Awardee (AOAA) for Structural Engineering Education in 2021.He was the 2014 DLSU Awardee, St. Benilde Romancon Pillar of Lasallian Excellence Award in Teaching and Winner-Outstanding Teacher, Lasallian Excellence Awards 2009 -Students’ Search for Outstanding Teachers (SSOT). He is a Research & Development (RD) Leader for North Western University on DRR (Sept 15, 2022 – Jan 15, 2023) under the National Research Council of the Philippines (NRCP). He is a member of the Disaster Resilience Unit of DLSU Center for Engineering and Sustainable Development Research (CESDR). He served as consultant for UNISDR for the development of the concept and website for the “One Million Safe Schools and Hospitals Campaign.” He organized a Newton Fund Workshop on “Localising Strategies for Making Cities Resilient to Disasters” with University of Huddersfield in Manila, Philippines. He has also collaborative research projects with University College of London on the project, Philippines Resilience of Schools to Mulit-Hazards (PRISMH) and Cultural Heritage Resilience and Sustainability to Multi-Hazards (CHeRiSH). He has also organized or headed committees on various local and international conferences organized by the Association of Structural Engineers of the Philippines (ASEP) including as founding ASEP member of the Asia Conference on Earthquake Engineering (ACEE). His civil, structural and earthquake engineering publications are on system identification, artificial neural network applications, concrete engineering, disaster risk reduction and engineering education. He has published papers in ASCE Journal of Structural Engineering, ASCE Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice, ASCE Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering, ACI Materials Journal, Computer Applications in Engineering Education, Computers and Concrete, Engineering Structures, Journal on Advanced Concrete Technology. His Google Scholar h-index is 11.

Curriculum Vitae of Prof. I Wayan Sengara

Prof. Keh-Chyuan Tsai received the B.S. degree in civil engineering (CE) from National Taiwan University (NTU) in 1977 and an M.S. degree from Stanford University in 1980. From 1980 to 1984, he worked as a structural engineer in the San Francisco office of Skidmore Owings Merrill. He completed his Ph.D. degree in the UC Berkeley in 1988. Prof. Tsai is a registered civil and structural engineer in Taiwan and California, USA. He joined the CE department of NTU in 1989, served as the director of NCREE from 2003 to 2010. He has conducted research for more than 35 years on design, testing and analysis of building structures subjected to earthquake loads. He is currently a chair professor at NTU, a consultant for NCREE and an international member of the US National Academy of Engineering.

Curriculum Vitae of Prof. Shyh-Jiann Hwang