Dr. Ramesh S .V. Teegavarapu (Dr. T.) is currently a professor and a former graduate program director & coordinator in the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geomatics Department at Florida Atlantic University (FAU), Boca Raton, Florida, and founder and leader of the Hydrosystems Research Laboratory (HRL) in the department. He is a Fulbright Scholar and also a Fulbright Specialist.
Dr. T. is recognized as one of the World’s Top 2% Scientists by Elsevier and Stanford University’s compiled list of top scientists for every year from 2020 to 2025. He is also ranked 1090 out of 64516 top researchers in the world in the sub-field of environmental engineering for the year 2025.
He is also an affiliate researcher with the Freight Mobility Research Institute (FMRI), FAU. He is also research faculty at Center for Water Resiliency and Risk Reduction (CWR3). He has over 25 years of experience in hydrological modeling, water resources, and environmental systems. He is one of the faculty members associated with the FAU AI Initiative. Before his tenure at FAU, he worked as Assistant Director of the Kentucky Water Resources Research Institute (KWRRI) and Assistant Professor (visiting and adjunct) at the University of Kentucky and as a Postdoctoral Scholar/Research Engineer at the University of California, Davis.
Dr. T.’s current research interests focus on climate variability and change, precipitation processes, statistical hydrology, water and environmental systems modeling and management, statistical learning, hydro analytics, and informatics, modeling extreme precipitation events, spatial interpolation, geostatistical methods, and hydrometeorology.

Dr. Bin Xu is currently the Minjiang Scholar Professor of Civil Engineering, a professorship appointed by Fujian Provincial Government, at Huaqiao University, Xiamen, China. He currently is the Director and Founder of the Key Laboratory for Intelligent Infrastructure and Monitoring (IIM) of Fujian Province, and the Director and Founder of the International Centre for Safety and Sustainability of Civil Engineering at Huaqiao University.
Before joining Huaqiao University, he was a Lotus Scholar Professor of Civil Engineering (a professorship appointed by Fujian Provincial Government) at Hunan University from 2005 to 2016 and was also the associate dean of the College of Civil Engineering at Hunan University from 2010 to 2016. He was also the Director of the Hunan Provincial Key Lab on Damage Prognosis for Engineering Structures from 2015 to 2016 at Hunan University. He taught and carried out research at the Lyles School of Civil Engineering at Purdue University as a Curtis Visiting Professor appointed by Purdue University in 2014-2015 academic year. He had been invited and financially support by European Commission to work at Sapienza University of Roma in 2010 and hired by University of Western Australia as a Gledden Visiting Senior Fellow from 2007 to 2008. Before starting working in China in 2005, he worked at University of Missouri-Rolla in US as a Post-Doc from 2003 to 2005 and at Ibaraki University in Japan as a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) postdoctoral fellow from 2001 to 2003. Dr. Xu has also proven exemplary record of teaching, research, service, leadership skills and administrative ability. Overall, he has published 148 peer-reviewed journal papers, 127 refereed conference papers and 7 edited books and proceedings. Most of his international papers are in SCI Q1 and Q2 journals and his current Google H-Index and H-10 Index is 25 and 51, respectively. He has been awarded 11 innovation patents in civil engineering and has made over 10 keynotes and invited presentations at international conferences. He serves various academic and extracurricular committees. He has organized several international workshops and conferences as chair or co-chair of organizing committee. He also serves on various academic societies as Editor-in-Chief, Executive Editor, Associate Editor, Guest Editor or editorial board member for international journals and professional committees as Standing Committee Member, Executive Member or Committee Members.

Xiang Ping is a tenured Full Professor at Central South University (ranked 95th in the ARWU-Academic Ranking of World Universities and 146th in the U.S. News & World Report Best Global Universities Rankings). He graduated with his Ph.D. degree from City University of Hong Kong in 2012 and served as a Postdoctoral fellow and senior research associate in City University of Hong Kong between 2012 and 2017. He was also a visiting scholar at prestigious universities in many countries, such as University of Cambridge, Swansea University and University of Strathclyde in the UK, Kunsan National University in South Korea, and Dartmouth College in the United States. Additionally, he has 6 years of experience in structural design at a large international consulting firm such as AECOM Asia Co. Ltd. In recent years, He has published over 180 SCI journal papers, with more than 120 of them being first or corresponding author papers, including Nature Communications and other high-impact international SCI journals. Among these, 7 papers are ESI highly cited papers. His total paper citations exceed 4,100, with the highest single citation surpassing 200, and an h-index>36 and an i10-index>110 as reported by Scopus and Web of Science. He has been included in the "World's Top 2% Scientists" list jointly published by Stanford University and Elsevier. His research interests include computational simulations in mechanics, transportation, and civil engineering, artificial intelligence for engineering applications in high-speed trains, structural health monitoring, and Physics-Informed Neural Networks for mechanics and engineering.

Prof. Pereira was born on 13 August, 1942 in Elvas, Portugal; received a doctoral degree in Hydrology from Zurich (1977) and a post-doctoral degree in irrigation and drainage from Lisbon (1980); was Professor since 1970 and Head since 1983. Agricultural Engineering, Technical University, Lisbon; He was Director General, Hydraulics and Agriculture Engineering, Ministry of Agriuculture 1977-1980; member of the Research Centre, Scientific Board and several specialised committees; responsible since 1985 for research coordination orientation in irrigation and drainage at National Institute of Agriculture Research, etc. He was Vice President of ICID from 1987-1990. Professor Emeritus, Institute of Agronomy, University of Lisbon. Invited Professor at CIHEAM/IAM-Bari, Italy, University of Porto and University of Azores, Portugal. Research adviser at Universities in China and Brazil. Doctor honoris causa, University of Rousse, Bulgaria. Hon. President of CIGR, and Hon. Vice-President of the ICID. Member, Portuguese Academy of Engineering, the “Accademia dei Georgofili”, Italy, the American Academy of Water Resources Engineers, the Académie d’Agriculture de France and the Int. Academy of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering. Fellow, Portuguese Association of Engineers. Recipient of numerous awards conferred by ICID, CIGR and European Water Resources Association, various national and foreign institutions from Bulgaria, China, Egypt, Equator, India, Italy, Japan, Libia, Mexico, and USA. Consultant to FAO, UNDP and UNESCO. Former leader of Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering Research Centre, and of the thematic area of Climate Change and Water Scarcity at LEAF, ISA-ULisboa. Former coordinator of research projects on irrigation water management on the North China Plain, the Yellow River Basin, the Aral Sea Basin and a network on Irrigation of Latin-American countries. Benchmark contributions/achievements refer to crop evapotranspiration (co-author of FAO56 Crop Evapotranspiration. Guidelines for Computing Crop Water Requirements), modelling the soil water balance (leader for developing of the ISAREG and SIMDualKc models) with applications to irrigation management in various countries, and water scarcity and droughts (author of Coping with Water Scarcity. Addressing the Challenges, a Springer book) and directing drought-related studies in various countries and regions. Author or co-author of a large number of papers in journals, book chapters, and conference speeches and papers. Editor/co-editor of several books and special issues of Journals, namely the special issue of Agric. Water Manage. on Updates and Advances to the FAO56 Crop Water Requirements Method.

Erich Bauer is a professor at the Institute of Applied Mechanics (IAM), Graz University of Technology, Austria. He completed his postgraduate studies at the University of Karlsruhe, Germany, under the supervision of Prof. G. Gudehus and Prof. D. Kolymbas, and holds a habilitation in Mechanics. Before joining IAM, he worked in a consulting company on research projects in Europe and the United States using the New Austrian Tunneling Method (NATM). Dr. Bauer is a regular reviewer of papers for various international journals, a Ph.D. thesis examiner, a keynote speaker at a large number of international conferences, and a member of different editorial boards. His scientific work focuses on the mechanical properties of granular materials and their constitutive modeling, using classical and higher-order continuum descriptions. His main areas of research are continuum mechanics, experimental investigations, and the constitutive modeling of engineering materials including the long-term behavior of geotechnical structures like rockfill dams. His scientific results have been published in 158 papers and books and presented in 136 oral presentations. Dr. Bauer is the project leader of several national and international scientific-technical initiatives with universities in Europe and Asia. He is also visiting professor at Hohai University, China, and the founder of the international conference series on “Long-term Behaviour of Dams” (LTBD).

Dr. Yonghui Wang is a Professor in the School of Civil Engineering at Harbin Institute of Technology, China. He received his Ph.D. from the National University of Singapore in 2015. He has published 98 international journal papers, 1 monograph, and holds 8 patents. He has led 15 research projects, including grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) and the Heilongjiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation. His scientific contributions have been recognized with First-Class Awards from both the China Steel Construction Society and Heilongjiang Province. He currently serves on the editorial boards of 6 international journals and is the member of several organizations, such as the China Construction Metal Structure Association and the International Association of Protective Structures.

Prof. Nourani currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Civil & Environmental Engineering and as Associate Editor for the Journal of Hydrology, Journal of Hydroinformatics, and AQUA, along with guest editorial roles for several other high-impact journals. He is the Founder and Director of the Excellence Center in Hydroinformatics of Iran and the Director of the Institute of Environment at the University of Tabriz. In 2023, he was ranked 9,035th among the world’s top 2% scientists, as reported by Stanford University, with a global position of 29th in Environmental Engineering (including Water Resources and Climatology) and 1st in Iran. According to ScholarGPS, he is in the top 0.05% of world scientists. His research interests span rainfall-runoff simulation, hydro-geological modeling, Artificial Intelligence applications in hydro-environmental engineering, hydroinformatics, and computational hydraulics. His scholarly contributions include: 300+ journal articles, predominantly in Q1 and Q2 journals, with approximately 50% as first or corresponding author. Three books and 21 book chapters, 200+ conference presentations, Eight international research projects

Prof. Burak FELEKOĞLU, full Professor, Head of Department of Civil Enginnering, Dokuz Eylül University, Türkiye. He has published over 130+ papers, H-index: 31. He is also member of American Concrete Institute (2012-present), RILEM Membership (2011-present), Turkish Chambers of Civil Engineers Membership (2001-present). Honors & Awards: Aug 2013, FABED Outstanding Young Scientist Award.

Dr. Askold Belyakov, was a leading researcher, geophysicist at the Institute of Physics of the Earth, Russian Academy of Sciences.
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