Haiping Yuan received the B.Eng. and M.Eng. degrees in mining engineering from Jiangxi University of Science and Technology, China, in 2000 and 2003, respectively. After that, he went to study at Central South University and was awarded the doctoral degree of geotechnical engineering in 2006. From 2008 to 2011, he was occupied with his postdoctoral work at the University of Science and Technology in Beijing. In 2006, he was promoted to associate professor at the School of Resource and Environmental Engineering at Jiangxi University of Science and Technology. From 2011 onwards, he entered the College of Civil Engineering at Hefei University of Technology for work. From January 2019 to the present, he has served as a professor. He has long been engaged in the teaching and research work of engineering disaster prediction, prevention, and control in mine shafts and roadways, urban subway tunnels, foundation pit slopes, roadbeds, pile foundations, and other projects. Until now, he has presided over two National Natural Science Foundation projects and 9 provincial or ministerial projects, and more than 90 academic papers have been published, including more than 40 international high-level ones.