Dr. Linsheng Huo received his Ph.D. from the School of Civil Engineering at Dalian University of Technology in China in 2005. He received his MS and B.S. from the Department of Civil Engineering at Shenyang Jianzhu University in China in 2001 and 1998, respectively. Dr. Huo is a professor at the School of Civil Engineering at Dalian University of Technology. He has expertise in structural vibration control, smart materials and structures, piezoceramics, and structural engineering. He has published more than 100 peer-reviewed journal papers. He has received research funding in smart materials and vibration-control-related research from the Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC).