Prof. Dr. Bin Shi is the dean of Suzhou High-tech Research Institute of Nanjing University, and concurrently serves as the president of the International Society for Environmental Geotechnical Engineering (ISEG), the chairman of the Geology and Geotechnical Engineering Intelligent Monitoring Branch of the Chinese Society of Rock Mechanics and Engineering, and the deputy director of the Engineering Geology Committee of the Chinese Geological Society. He holds a doctorate in hydrogeology and engineering geology from the Department of Earth Sciences of Nanjing University. He has been engaged in the research of rock and soil disasters for a long time and has made systematic and creative contributions to the theory, technology, and application of distributed optical fiber sensing of rock and soil, opening up a new direction for the perception of rock and soil disasters.