Industrial Buildings and Safety: Proceedings of 2025 8th International Conference on Structural Engineering and Industrial Architecture

Prof. Yongchang Guo, dean of the School of Civil Engineering and Transportation, Foshan University, leading talent, member of the Academic and Degree Committee of the University, vice president of the Guangdong Mechanics Society, director of the Guangdong Civil Engineering and Architecture Society, director of the Guangdong Province, high-performance new building materials engineering and technology research center, Guangdong Province, the “thousand, hundred, ten” project of the provincial level of training objects. He is a visiting scholar of Hong Kong Polytechnic University and Queen's University of Belfast, UK. He has presided over more than 60 projects, including 4 projects of National Natural Science Foundation of China and 1 project of National Key Research and Development Program. He has published more than 180 academic papers in domestic and international academic journals, among which more than 100 papers are SCI indexed, with H-index=40 (Web of Science), 10 ESI high profile papers, 2 hot papers, and 2022~2024 consecutively selected in the annual list of top 2% of the world's top scientists. Authorized 25 invention patents. He has won one first prize of Science and Technology from the Ministry of Education, three second prizes and two third prizes of Science and Technology of Guangdong Province, one first prize and one second prize of Guangdong Teaching Achievements. In recent years, he has presided over 6 academic conferences as the chairman of the organizing committee, and more than 20 invited lectures and presentations. Assoc. Prof. Qingzi Luo's research involves experimental and theoretical methods of soft soil foundation settlement and soft foundation treatment, and her major achievements have been published in the Sunset journals of Geotechnical Science, Journal of Geotechnical Engineering, Geomechanics and Engineering, etc. She is also the chairperson of the National Natural Science Foundation Youth Project and the Guangdong Province Natural Science Foundation Doctoral Research Initiative Project, and she was awarded the National Prize of Doctoral Students in 2014 and the Second Prize of China Petroleum and Chemical Automation Industry Science and Technology Award in 2016. She was awarded the National Scholarship for Doctoral Students in 2014 and the Second Prize of China Petroleum and Chemical Automation Industry Science and Technology Award in 2016.