Biographical note

Dr. Tinh Q. Bui is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan. He holds other academic positions including Visiting Professor (Dalian University of Technology, China) and Visiting Associate Professor (NTUST, Taiwan). Prof. Bui received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering, Vienna University of Technology, Austria, 2009. He serves Editor for Applied Mathematical Modelling, Thin-Walled Structures; Engineering Analysis with Boundary Elements; Scientific Reports, SN Applied Sciences. He was awarded "The 2018 JACM Award for Young Investigators in Computational Mechanics" from Japan Association for Computational Mechanics. He is authored and co-authored of over 150 ISI peer-reviewed articles. Prof. Bui’s research interests are computational mechanics, fracture mechanics, composites, computational inelasticity, and numerical methods".
Dr. Thanh Cuong-Le is lecturer at the Facultyof Civil Engineering, Ho Chi Minh City Open University, Vietnam. He received his PhD from Ghent University of Belgium in 2019. His research focuses on computational science and engineering, structural stability, dynamic analysis, plates and shell, optimization and  structural health monitoring. He has published papers in Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, Composite structures, and Thin-Walled Structures.  


Dr. Samir Khatir is currently a Doctor assistant at Ghent university Belgium and adjunct Doctor assistant at Ho Chi Minh Open university Vietnam. He received PhD in Civil engineering at Ghent university and another PhD in Mechanical engineering from UMBB Algeria. Dr Samir Khatir improved and created many techniques for damage identification. He is authored and co-authored of over 40 ISI peer-reviewed articles. His primary research interest is in the areas of Civil and Mechanical engineeringsuch as FEM, XFEM, Iso-Geometric Analysis (IGA), Extended Iso-Geometric analysis (XIGA), Dynamic, Static, Damage identification, Fracture mechanics, Optimization, Inverse problem, Wear, Friction, Laminated composites, Delamination, Transmissibility, Fatigue, Bridge, Civil engineering structures, Machine Learning, Model Reduction, Deep Learning, and  experimental modal analysis. He is also on the editorial board in many scientific journals.