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Professor and Director WindEEE Research Institute, Site Leader for SHARCENT Adcanced Research Computing, Western University, Canada

Dr. Bitsuamlak is a Professor in Wind Engineering. His research expertise is in climate-resilient and sustainable buildings and neighborhoods. Currently, his team is actively working on modeling of (i) extreme wind effects on civil infrastructure (e.g., hurricane and tornado), and (ii) interplay between aerodynamics and other micro-climate stressors for assessing sustainable building thermal and energy performance, natural ventilation, and wind-driven-rain/snow effects. 

His research utilizes a combination of computational fluid dynamics-based simulations (and assisted with Artificial Intelligence) by using a high-performance computing and physical experiments at WindEEE Research Facilities (www.windee.ca). Dr. Bitsuamlak serves Director both for the WindEEE Research Institute and WindEEE Research Facilities (The Dome + BLWTL+ 3LP) at Western and Western’s Site-leader for the Sharcnet computing center. He is a Fellow of the Canadian Society of Civil Engineers. He has executed wind-induced load and response studies for socially and historically significant super tall buildings such as Freedom Tower in New York, International Commerce Center in Hong Kong, and Burj Khalifa in Dubai in wind tunnels. He is an expert both in experimental and computational wind engineering.

Professor, Department of Architecture, Geology, Environment and Construction, Belgium

Vincent Denoël is Professor in Structural Engineering at the University of Liège, since 2009. He received his Master Diploma in Civil Engineering (2001) and Ph. D. in Applied Sciences (2005) from the University of Liège. From 2001-2009 he was a Researcher for the National Research Fund in Belgium. His areas of research concern the random dynamics of low-dimensional systems, structural dynamics, the characterization of dynamic actions such as wind and human loads, and the numerical simulation of flexible structures and biomechanics. The diversity of his research areas results from varied research stays in Germany, Japan and Australia over the period 2005-2009. 

He leads the Structural & Stochastic Dynamics research lab at ULiège and is the Head of the Department of Architecture, Geology, Environment and Constructions. He teaches statics, structural dynamics, probabilities and stochastic mechanics, and perturbation methods for engineers. His research works have led to 125+ papers indexed in Scopus and 200+ communications in conferences and congress. Vincent Denoël has collaborations with important research institutes and industrial partners across Europe and America. He owns a world record for the longest death ride installed in urban area (2010) and received in 2015 the “Junior Award” of the International Association for Wind Engineering. He is also an editorial board member of the Journal of Wind Engineering & Industrial Aerodynamics (Elsevier), the Journal on Wind & Structures (TechnoPress) and Wind (MDPI), and currently acts as the Europe-Africa Regional Coordinator for the International Association of Wind Engineering.

Professor, Robert M. Moran, Department of Civil Engineering and Geological Sciences University of Notre Dame, USA

Dr. Kareem is Director of the Nathaz Modeling Laboratory and served as the past Chair at the Department of Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences (CEEES) at the University of Notre Dame. The focus of his work is on quantifying load effects caused by various natural hazards on structures and to develop innovative strategies to manage and mitigate their effects. The characterization and formulation of dynamic load effects due to wind, waves and earthquakes on tall buildings, long-span bridges, offshore structures and other structures is carried out via fundamental analytical computational methods, and experiments at laboratory, and full-scale. He directs NatHaz Group which focuses on developments in cyberspace virtual collaborative research platforms. His contributions towards database assisted design through a web-portal recommended in ASCE 7 is used worldwide for designing tall buildings.

In 2009, Kareem was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering for contributions to analyses and designs to account for wind effects on tall buildings, long-span bridges, and other structures. He is also a international member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Indian Academy of Engineering and Engineering Academy of Japan. He was the President of the International Association for Wind Engineering (IAWE) from 2015 to 2023. He was also the former President of the American Association for Wind Engineering.

Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Jeonbuk National University, Korea

Dr. Kwon is Professor and Director of KOCED Wind Tunnel Center at Jeonbuk National University. He received his B.S. (1988), M.S. (1990) and Ph.D. (1996) degree in Civil Engineering from Seoul National University, He was a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University (2011-2013) and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2004), USA. His research interests include:

• Bridge dynamics 

• Wind Engineering 

• Vibration control 

• Moving loads and Maglev vehicle 

• Wind energy and energy harvesting 

Senior Lecturer, School of Civil Engineering, University of Queensland, Australia

Dr. Mason began at The University of Queensland in late 2014 after holding academic positions at The University of Sydney and QUT. Prior to joining UQ he also worked as a catastrophe risk researcher for the industry-focused research centre, Risk Frontiers at Macquarie University. Matthew's key areas of interest and expertise lie in the fields of:

• Wind Engineering

• Stochastic modelling of hazards, including convective storms and tropical cyclones

• Probabilistic modelling of structural and infrastructure vulnerability to wind, water and hail

• Catastrophe loss modelling for natural hazards

• Modelling and observation of the atmospheric boundary layer

• Wind tunnel testing and analysis

• Disaster insurance

Dr. Mason is currently the Chair of the Standards Australia wind loading sub-committee responsible for maintenance of AS/NZS1170.2.

State Specially Recruited Experts Professor, Advisory Director, Research Center of Wind Engineering, Environment and Energy (RCWE^3), School of Civil Engineering, Chongqing University, China 

Yukio Tamura is a Professor and the Advisory Director of Research Center of Wind Engineering, Environment and Energy, School of Civil Engineering, Chongqing University, China. He is also a Professor Emeritus of Tokyo Polytechnic University (TPU), Japan, and the Honorary Director of the TPU Wind Engineering Research Center. He served as the President of the International Association for Wind Engineering (IAWE) for eight years from 2007 to 2015. He is now serving as Honorary Chairman of the International Thematic Group for Wind-Related Disaster Risk Reduction under the auspices of the United Nations Office of Disaster Risk Reduction. He is also serving as an Honorary/Guest/Adjunct Professor of around 20 universities/institutes in China, Korea, Malaysia, Poland and the USA. 

Due to his internationally recognized outstanding academic achievements, he has received many awards including the ASCE Jack E. Cermak Medal in 2004, the ASCE Robert H. Scanlan Medal in 2016, as well as the IAWE Alan Davenport Medal in 2016. In addition, due to his various professional contributions, he has received other important awards, including the Japan Association for Wind Engineering (JAWE) 2015 Design Award for his contribution to the wind resistant design of the 634m-high Tokyo Sky Tree and the Chinese Government Friendship Award in 2017. Professor Yukio Tamura has been a member of the Engineering Academy of Japan since 2011, a Foreign Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering since 2013, and a International Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering since 2017.

Professor, Faculty of Engineering, Niigata Institute of Technology, Japan

Yoshihide Tominaga received his B.E. degree in architecture from Niigata University, Japan, in 1990 and his M.E. and Ph.D. degrees in architecture from the Graduate School of Engineering at the University of Tokyo, Japan in 1992 and 1995, respectively. In 1995, he joined the Department of Architecture and Building Engineering at the Niigata Institute of Technology as a research associate. He became an associate professor in 1999 and a professor in 2003. He has also served as the director of the Wind and Fluid Engineering Research Center, Niigata Institute of Technology, since 2018. He has served as the associate editor for the Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics since 2021. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Japan Association for Wind Engineering, the chair of the Steering Committee on Air Quality and Wind Environment at the Architectural Institute of Japan (AIJ), and a member of the Board of Directors of the Japan Society of Snow Engineering.

He specializes in the numerical modeling of microscale wind flow and the related processes in urban environments, such as pedestrian wind comfort, microclimates, air pollutant dispersion, cross ventilation, and snowdrift. His current research focuses on experimental and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) approaches, and he has significantly contributed towards developing sophisticated techniques for validating and evaluating CFD models and establishing the best practice guidelines for the CFD modeling of wind environments.

Professor, School Of Civil Engineering Chonqing University, China

Prof. Qingshan Yang received his Ph.D. in structural engineering from the Harbin Institute of Technology, China in 1995. He works on the faculty at Chongqing University as the Dean of School of Civil Engineering, the Distinguished Professor of Chang Jiang Scholars Program as well as the Holder of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars. His research has been primarily in the areas of wind engineering, wind energy utilization, and structural engineering. Prof. Yang has led several key projects, such as the Science Fund for Creative Research Group, the China-Japan Joint International Cooperation Project, and the International Cooperation Key 111 Projects entitled "Base for Introducing Talents of Discipline to University on Mitigating Wind-induced Disaster of Wind-sensitive Infrastructures" and "Base for Introducing Talents of Discipline to University on High-performance Wind Energy System and Effective Operation" sponsored by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), Ministry of Education, and Ministry of Science and Technology. 

Prof. Yang is a member of Executive Board of the International Association for Wind Engineering, Deputy Director of the Professional Committee of Wind Disaster Mitigation and Energy Utilization, and the Space Structure Committee of the China Association for Engineering Construction Standardization. He has published more than 300 SCI/EI papers and 3 monographs as the first author and is selected as one of the top 2% of scientists globally. He is the chief editor of the Standard for wind loads on roof structures. He has won several science and technology awards for his research efforts, including the Second Prize of the National Award of Science and Technology Progress (3 items), the Second Prize of National Award of Teaching Achievement (1 items), the First Prize of Huaxia Award of Construction Science and Technology (3 items), the First Prize of Chongqing Municipal Award of Science and Technology (3 items), and so forth.

Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan 

Dr. Yu-Hsuan Juan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at National Taipei University of Technology (TaipeiTECH). She earned her double PhD in Built Environment from Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) and in Energy and Refrigerating Air-Conditioning Engineering from TaipeiTECH in 2021. Dr. Juan currently serves as the Associate Editor of 《Physics of Fluids》, a Young Editorial Board member of 《Applied Energy》, and an Early Career Editorial Board member of the 《Journal of Building Performance Simulation》. Her research interests focus on sustainable urban development, particularly on enhancing the urban microclimate and utilizing urban wind energy. Her work covers various topics including the urban wind environment, heat island effect mitigation, air pollution removal, passive cooling strategies, and small wind turbine applications.