Wenjie Liao, PhD, associate researcher, in the School of Civil Engineering at Southwest Jiaotong University, China. His research focuses on AI-powered design generation and optimization of building structures, as well as seismic damage analysis of building structures. He holds a youth project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China and a general project of the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation. He has published more than 30 SCI/EI research papers, including the IF top-ranked journal in the civil engineering field, "Automation in Construction," the highly influential journal in the field of artificial intelligence, "Expert Systems with Applications," and the official journal of the International Association for Earthquake Engineering, "Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics." Three of his papers were in the top 2% cited on InCites of WOS. He obtained more than 20 Chinese invention patents. He was selected for the Shuimu Tsinghua Scholar Program of Tsinghua University and awarded the title of "Academic Newcomer" by the Department of Civil Engineering, Tsinghua University. He also won the Gold Medal with the Congratulations of the Jury at the 48th Geneva International Invention Exhibition, the 1st Prize of the CIC Construction Innovation Award 2022 (International category).