A/Prof Kejun Dong is now at Centre for Infrastructure Engineering, School of Engineering, Western Sydney University. He earned both his bachelor and master degrees from Department of Applied Physics, Hunan University (China) in 1996 and 1999 respectively, and received his PhD from School of Materials Science and Engineering, University of New South Wales (UNSW) in 2007. He is the author or co-author of over 100 scholarly publications. His research interest includes simulation and modelling of particulate systems and amorphous systems.