Professor Zhendong Cui received his Ph.D. Degree from the School of Civil Engineering, Tongji University in 2008. He worked as a postdoctoral research fellow for one year at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He currently works as a professor in the School of Mechanics and Civil Engineering at the China University of Mining and Technology (CUMT). He is also a visiting scholar at the University of Colorado Boulder from 2015 to 2016. He has published 34 SCI indexed papers in many international journals.