Professor Zhen-Dong Cui is Dean of the Institute of Geotechnical Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology. He received his Ph.D. Degree from the School of Civil Engineering, Tongji University, in 2008 and subsequently worked as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology for one year. He was also a visiting scholar at the University of Colorado Boulder from 2015 to 2016. He has published 38 SCI-indexed papers in various international journals. He was nominated for inclusion in the 100 Excellent Doctoral Dissertations in China in 2011; was awarded the second prize for Natural Science by the Ministry of Education in 2013; and was awarded the third prize by Shanghai Natural Science in 2015. Professor Cui is a associate editor of Arabian Journal of Geosciences (SCI-indexed), a member of the soft soil engineering committee of the geotechnical engineering branch of the Civil Engineering Society of China; a member of the InternationalSociety for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE); and a member of the International Association for Engineering Geology and Environment (IAEG).