Dr. Baoping Zou, Ph.D., is a professor, doctoral supervisor, and Vice Dean of the School of Civil and Architectural Engineering at Zhejiang University of Science and Technology. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the State Key Laboratory of Deep Geomechanics and Underground Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology (Beijing). He is mainly engaged in teaching and research in the areas of rail transit protection, deep earth, and deep sea impact rock-breaking dynamics, new materials for repairing and reinforcing diseased tunnels, subway tunnel engineering construction, freezing mechanics, deep foundation pits, and engineering geology. He is the director of the Zhejiang–Singapore International Joint Laboratory for Urban Renewal and Future Cities of Zhejiang Province, the Hangzhou Research Center of the State Key Laboratory of Deep Geotechnical Mechanics and Underground Engineering, and the Hangzhou Engineering Research Center of Key Technology Project for Intensive Land Utilization in Rail Transit Protection Areas. He has presided over more than 30 projects of various types, including the National Natural Science Foundation, Zhejiang Provincial Science and Technology Plan Project, Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation, and Zhejiang Provincial Education Planning Project. He has published more than 60 high-level papers included in SCI/EI, authorized more than 90 national invention patents, and published 3 monographs and 1 national technical standard.