Dr. Yusheng Shen is a professor at Southwest Jiaotong University. He received a bachelor’s degree in geological resources and geological engineering in 2001 and a Ph.D. in bridge and tunnel engineering in 2006, both from Southwest Jiaotong University. From 2007 to 2009, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Southwest Jiaotong University. He has participated in and completed more than 40 national, provincial, ministerial, and major engineering and technological research projects and won one second prize in the natural science category of the Sichuan Science and Technology Progress Award, one first prize and one second prize in science and technology from the China Railway Society, one first prize in science and technology from the China Railway Construction Corporation, and one second prize in science and technology from the China Railway Corporation. His research topics mainly cover the fields of the anti-seismic theory of mountain tunnels in high-intensity earthquake zones, mechanical characteristics and control technology of large-section construction of tunnel engineering under complex conditions, risk control and safety assessment of close-proximity construction of subway engineering, etc.