Dr. Jiaolong Ren is currently Associate Professor at the Shandong University of Technology, China. He received a PhD degree in Transportation Engineering from Southeast University (SEU) in 2017, a master’s degree in Highway and Railway Engineering from Chang’an University (CHU) in 2011, and a bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering from China University of Mining and Technology (CUMT) in 2008. His featured research interests and efforts focus on green pavement materials, the cracking behavior of asphalt concrete, and DEM simulation. He has published 30 SCI journal papers and served as a reviewer for several SCI journals, including Construction and Building Materials, International Journal of Pavement Engineering, and Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering.