Hani Mitri (http://minedesign.mcgill.ca/), PhD, professor, Director of Mining at Mcgill University, Canada. Technical and scientific contributions as an educator, researcher and consultant in the mining engineering discipline in the areas of underground mining, rock engineering and ore transportation. Significant management and leadership experience gained through numerous university administrative positions. More than 30 years of teaching experience, and 250 papers in scientific journals and conference proceedings. Supervised to completion more than 35 Master's and PhD students. Associate editor/ Editorial board member/Guest editor of several international journals. Organized and chaired/co-chaired several international conferences and symposia. Professional engineer in the province of Quebec since 1987.

Paul Hagan (http://www.engineering.unsw.edu.au/mining-engineering/staff/paul-hagan), PhD, Associate Professor, Head of School of Mining Engineering, University of New South Wales, Australia. His principal research interests lie in mine geotechnical engineering and mining engineering. He has over 30 years’ experience within the mining industry and university sectors. He has been the principal research investigator leading projects in the rock-cutting research facility. The research has made significant advances in the application of acoustic emissions in monitoring and control of rock cutting machines and in the determination of controlling factors associated with abrasivity testing of rock. He has published 80 peer-reviewed papers, 110 project reports and 3 patents.

Prof Chung-In Lee（https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Chung-In_Lee）, a member of Korean academy of engineering, a tenured professor at Seoul national university and one of the leading scholars in international rock mechanics and engineering. He was the former vice President of the international association of rock mechanics and the President of the Korea association of rock mechanics. Now he is a leading figure in the Korean rock mechanics and engineering world. As a chairman of the panel and guidance of South Korea's rock engineering. He made many innovative achievements on the rock stress measurement, blasting intelligent design, Korean underground energy storage project, etc. He has published more than 140 journal papers and more than 100 conference papers.

Jun-ichi Kodama (http://rock.eng.hokudai.ac.jp/kodama/english.html), PhD, as a professor working in the Rock Mechanics Laboratory at Division of Sustainable Resources Engineering of Hokkaido University, Japan. He mainly focuses on the research fields, such as rock durability under freeze-thaw cycles, mechanical properties of rock under sub-zero temperature, long term strength of rock under various environment, and stability evaluation method for rock slope considering environment. As a visiting fellow, he had been working for six months in the School of Mining Engineering, University of New South Wales, Australia. He is a famous scholar and he has published several academic papers with a great significance on Rock Mechanics.

Ki-il Song (http://www.inha.ac.kr/cop/search/profView.do), PhD, as a professor working in the Geomechanical Engineering Lab of College of Civil Engineering, Inha University, Korea. He mainly focuses on the research fields, such as rock mechanics and rock engineering, seepage and seismic analysis, numerical simulation, and underground excavation engineering, etc. As a Assistant Professor, he had been working in the University Technology MARA from March 2009 to March 2011, then as a Assistant Professor, he had been working in the University of Nottingham (Malaysia) from August 2011 to August 2012. As a distinguished scholar, he has published over 50 academic papers and books, and he has been authorized 4 patents.

Hossein Masoumi (https://www.monash.edu/engineering/hosseinmasoumi), He obtained his PhD at the University of New South Wales in 2012. He is now a Senior Lecturer at Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. He mainly focuses on Rock mechanics with particular interest in size/scale and shape effects on intact rock, Constitutive modeling of intact rock exhibiting size/scale behaviors under different test conditions, Shaly-Sandstone micro-scale characterization, Non-persistent jointed rocks characterization. He has published more than 30 academic articles.

Guang XU (https://www.linkedin.com/in/xuguang/), He obtained his PhD at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in 2013. He works as a lecturer in the Department of Mining Engineering & Metallurgical Engineering at Western Australian School of Mines, Curtin University. He mainly focuses on mine ventilation, health and safety related issues, and has the ability to conduct multidisciplinary, fundamental, and applied research. He has strong research backgrounds in mine ventilation, CFD, air pollution, surface chemistry, and experimental design. He has published more than 20 academic articles.

Prof Lanru JING from KTH Royal Institute of Technology. Prof Jing focused on the experimental, theoretical and numerical simulation of thermal-water (gas)-mechanical multi-field coupling and solute migration mechanism in geotechnical media. He is currently the editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences, a leading journal in the field of rock mechanics (https://www.journals.elsevier.com/international-journal-of- rock-mechanics-and-mining-sciences/editorial-board). Prof Jing has published more than 80 SCI papers, 1 monograph, and translated 1 book. Not only he has richly field experience, but also a good reputation and important influence in the field of international rock mechanics.

Prof Wei GAO is a Professor in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, the University of New South Wales, Sydney (UNSW) (https://www.engineering.unsw.edu.au/civil-engineering/staff/wei-gao). Prof GAO mainly focused on structural engineering, mechanical engineering, stochastic analysis and modelling,dynamics and vibration control, composite materials and knowledge representation and machine learning, etc. Prof GAO was supported by ARC Linkage Scheme-ARC Research Hub (IH150100006), ARC Discovery (DP160103919, DP140101887, DP130102934, DP1094451, DP0988429). Prof GAO has published more than 135 journal papers, 74 conference papers.

Prof Priyan Mendis (http://www.ejse.org/) is a Professor in the Department of Infrastructure Engineering in Monash University, Australia. He is the editor-in-chief of the Electronic Journal of Structural Engineering (EJSE), and he is also a member of Institution of Engineering, Concrete Institute of Australia and American Concrete Institute. Prof Mendis is the Director of the ARC Centre for Advanced Manufacturing of Prefabricated Housing Research interests on protective technology of structures, smart infrastructure design and assessment, high-strength/high-performance concrete, seismic design of reinforced and prestressed concrete structures and design of tall buildings and bridges, etc. Prof Mendis has published more than 160 journal papers.

Prof Brahim Benmokrane, a fellow of Canadian academy of Science, a professor at Department of Civil Engineering of University of Sherbrooke (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Brahim_Benmokrane), Canada. He is Canada Research Chair in Advanced Composite Materials for Civil Structures, NSERC Research Chair in Innovative FRP Reinforcement for Sustainable Concrete Infrastructure, and Director of the University of Sherbrooke Research Center on FRP Composite Materials. He mainly focus on Fibre-Reinforced Polymer (FRP) Composite Materials for Civil Infrastructure and FRP Reinforcements for Concrete Structures. He has 522 publications, including 210 articles in refereed journals, 29 books, book chapters & monographs, and 283 articles in refereed conference proceedings.

Dr Danqi LI（https://www.monash.edu/engineering/danqili）, As an Assistant Lecturer in Department of Civil Engineering, Monash University, Australia. He obtained his PhD in Geotechnical Engineering and Mining Engineering, School of Minerals and Energy Resources Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. He is the membership of Australian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (AusIMM) and International Society for Rock Mechanics (ISRM). He mainly focused on mechanical performances of cable bolt under different loading conditions. Based on his projects supported by Australian Coal Association Research Program and Mining Education Australia Collaborative Research Project, he has published 5 famous peer-reviewed Journal papers and 6 Conference papers.

Dr Linlin GE is currently a Professor of remote sensing and earth observation in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, Australia. He has been studying earth observation techniques since 1985. Among many other prestigious awards, Professor Ge and his team’s work to support the Sichuan Earthquake rescue effort won them the highly prestigious JK Barrie Award for Overall Excellence at the 2008 Asia-Pacific Spatial Excellence Awards. He was named "NSW Scientist of the Year 2009" in the category Physics, Earth Sciences, Chemistry and Astronomy for his work in near real-time satellite remote sensing. See Webpage https://www.engineering.unsw.edu.au/civil-engineering/staff/linlin-ge. Supported by ARC research projects, he has published over 100 Journal papers and 2 famous Books in the remote sensing field.

Dr Ismet Canbulat is currently a Professor and head of School of Minerals and Energy Resources Engineering at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, Australia. Prof. Ismet Canbulat has over 25 years experiences in research, consultancy, management, on-site and academia. He has been the Kenneth Finlay Chair of Rock Mechanics at UNSW since 2014. (https://www.engineering.unsw.edu.au/minerals-energy-resources/staff/ismet-canbulat). Prof. Ismet’s principle research interests and expertise mainly lie in rock mechanics, ground control and rock mass classification, design of pillar and roof support systems, numerical modelling in mining engineering. Supported by ACARP research projects, he has published over 60 papers. He is a recipient of the SME’s Syd S. Peng Ground Control Award, the Southern African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy Gold Medal, etc.

Dr Brijes Mishra https://www.statler.wvu.edu/faculty-staff/faculty/brijes-mishra joined West Virginia University as an Assistant Professor in August 2009. He was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in 2015. He has published in reputed journals in Rock Mechanics, Strata Control and Mining Engineering. His funded research has exceeded more than a million dollar. His area of research has spanned from laboratory testing to pillar stability analysis for deep coalmines. He developed a High Pressure and High Temperature triaxial laboratory for testing rocks at high pressure and temperature. Additionally, a new triaxial creep testing equipment was added to the laboratory for investigating long-term behavior of the rock. With his graduate students he has investigated time-dependent behavior of coal measure rocks using both continuum and discontinuum models.