Prof. Yan Xiang is currently the Director of Scientific Research Management Department of Nanjing Hydraulic Research Institute, serves as the vice chairman of the Reservoir Dam and Nuclear Underwater Engineering Technology Professional Committee of the China Diving Salvage Association, the deputy secretary general of the Water Resources Management Professional Committee of the China Hydraulic Engineering Society, and a commissioner of the Intelligent Construction and Management Professional Committee of the China National Committee on Large Dams. He has long been engaged in research on safety diagnosis and risk assessment of water conservancy and hydropower engineering, underwater detection of high dams, intelligent monitoring, and other aspects. As the discipline leader of the Innovation Team for Reservoir Dam Safety and Management of the Ministry of Water Resources, he has led and participated in more than 20 scientific research projects, including the National Key Research and Development Program of China, the National Natural Science Foundation, and the Asian Regional Cooperation Fund, and published over 50 papers and published 7 books, and authorized more than 10 nation invention patents (including 1 international invention patent). He has presided over the completion of more than 60 dam safety evaluations for reservoirs. He has enriched and improved the dam safety management system of "intelligent monitoring, precise diagnosis, risk assessment and intelligent management", and his research results have solved key technological problems such as reservoir dam disease diagnosis and safety monitoring, risk assessment and emergency management, and grading and scrapping decision. He is one of the lead authors of National Sector Standards including Guidelines on dam safety evaluation, Guidelines for reservoir demotion and retirement evaluation, and so on. Prof.
Zhimin Fu is an associate professor at the College of Hydrology and Water Resources, Hohai University. She mainly engages in research on dam safety evaluation, formulation of reservoir operation regulations, emergency response plans for flood control and rescue, reservoir dam risk analysis, informatization and intelligent management of water conservancy projects. She has led and participated in multiple scientific research projects, including the National Key Research and Development Program of China " Key technologies and applications of safety diagnosis and smart management of reservoir dams", the National Natural Science Foundation of China''s "Research on the Impact of Overextraction of Groundwater on Near Surface Heat Island Effect", the National Natural Science Foundation of China''s "Research on the Response of Unsaturated Water Flow and Pollution to Vertical Cracks", and the Yunnan Provincial Science and Technology Plan project "Construction of a Benign Operation Management Model for Water Conservancy Engineering in Yunnan Province". She has published over 30 papers, and authorized more than 10 nation invention patents. Prof. Chengdong Liu works at the Dam Safety Management Department of Nanjing Hydraulic Research Institute, mainly engaged in research on reservoir dam safety evaluation, safety monitoring and early warning, and informatization and intelligent management of water conservancy projects. He has led and participated in multiple scientific research projects such as the National Key Research and Development Program of China and National Natural Science Foundation of China. He has also led and completed the research on dam safety evaluation, preparatory emergency plans, dam safety monitoring, and information systems for more than 100 large-sized and medium-sized reservoirs, including the Xiaolangdi Hydro-Junction, Danjiangkou Reservoir, Siminghu Reservoir, and Heilongtan Reservoir.
He is one of the lead authors of National Sector Standards including Guidelines on dam safety evaluation, Technical specifications for real-time automatic monitoring and early warning system of termites in water conservancy and hydropower projects, and so on. Liu was selected as a top notch talents in the "Kunlun Talent ยท High-end Innovation and Entrepreneurship Talent Project" in Qinghai Province in 2020. He has published over 50 academic papers and published 5 books. Zhang Kai received his bachelor''s degree in water conservancy and hydropower engineering and master''s degree in hydrostructural engineering from Hohai University in 2010 and 2013, respectively. He is mainly engaged in scientific research and technical consulting in the field of reservoir dam safety assessment and disease diagnosis and obtained the qualification of engineer in July 2016 and the qualification of senior engineer in April 2021. He is now a registered consulting engineer and a registered consulting expert in Jiangsu Province. Wang Yakun finished his bachelor''s degree in Water Conservancy and Hydropower Engineering at Kunming University of Science and Technology in 2019, and he got the master''s degree in Urban Water Affairs from Hohai University in 2022. Now he is doing the Ph.
D. at Sichuan University and Nanjing Institute of Water Resources Science (joint training). Wang is mainly engaged in the research of dam safety diagnosis and risk assessment, deep water inspection, and structural health monitoring. He has participated in 7 key national research and development projects, National Natural Science Fund, and provincial and ministerial projects and has led and participated in more than 20 dam safety identification projects and more than 10 underwater inspection projects. He has published 6 journals, 9 software copyrights, and 4 invention patents. Dr Shen received his M.E. degree in water conservancy engineering from Hohai University in 2016 and his Ph.
D. degree in water conservancy and hydropower engineering from Sichuan University and Nanjing Institute of Water Resources Science (joint training) in 2020. Dr Shen is mainly engaged in scientific research in the field of reservoir dam safety diagnosis and risk assessment and management. He has led two projects under the National Key Research and Development Programme and one project under the Central Public Research Institutes'' Basic Scientific Research Business Fund and participated in many research projects, including the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the Ministry of Water Resources'' Public Welfare Industry Research Project. He has presided over the completion of more than 10 major water conservancy projects in terms of safety testing, safety diagnosis, risk assessment, and emergency response. He has published more than 10 papers, including 3 SCI papers and 4 EI papers; participated in the editing of 1 monograph; participated in the editing of 2 industry specifications; obtained 11 soft publications; and authorised 3 international invention patents and more than 10 national invention patents.