Binghan Xue received a Ph.D. in Hydraulic Structure Engineering at the Dalian University of Technology in 2018. He is currently an Associate Professor at the School of Water Conservancy and Transportation, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China. His research interests include nondestructive testing, trenchless repair of dikes and dams, seismic safety evaluation of hydraulic structures, and the scaled boundary finite element method.