Guofu Qiao is Professor at the Harbin Institute of Technology in China. He leads the Key Lab of Smart Prevention and Mitigation of Civil Engineering Disasters for the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, and heads a research group on corrosion in civil engineering that has published over 50 papers on the topic. Dr. Bingbing Guo is an associate professor of Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology. He mainly focuses on concrete durability in coastal environments, low-carbon concrete structures, etc. Prof. Guo obtained his PhD degree from Harbin Institute of Technology in Oct. 2018, and then had been employed as a postdoctoral fellow in Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology for two years. He was once invited as a visiting scholar at ETH Zurich from Feb. 2022 to Aug. 2023. Prof. Guo has led many research projects as IP, and received fundings from National Natural Science Foundation of China, China Postdoctoral Science Foundation, China Scholarship Council, etc. Jinping Ou is a Professor of civil engineering and engineering mechanics at Dalian University of Technology and Harbin Institute of Technology in China. His research interests include structural damage, reliability and health monitoring, structural vibration and control, and smart materials and structures. He is the author of four books and more than 200 published papers.

• 1. Hydration process and microstructures development of the concrete composites2. Corrosion mechanism of the reinforced concrete structures3. Thermodynamics and kinetics evolution of the concrete composites during the mass transfer process4. Corrosion monitoring methods of the reinforced concrete structures5. Corrosion prevention and control techniques of the reinforced concrete structure6. Internet of things for the structural health monitoring and control in civil engineering7. Cyber-physical system for the corrosion monitoring and control of the reinforced concrete structures