Yi-Qing Ni is Chair Professor of Smart Structures and Rail Transit at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and Director of National Engineering Research Center on Rail Transit Electrification and Automation (Hong Kong Branch), Hong Kong. His research areas cover structural health monitoring, smart materials and structures, high-speed rail and maglev safety, and scientific machine learning.  He is a Co-Editor-in-Chief of 'Journal of Infrastructure Intelligence and Resilience' and 'Intelligent Transportation Infrastructure'; an Academic Editor of 'Structural Control and Health Monitoring'; an Associate Editor of 'Journal of Civil Structural Health Monitoring'; and 'Journal of Vibration and Control'; and an editorial board member for seven journals including 'Engineering Structures' and 'Smart Structures and Materials'. He has published more than 300 SCI journal papers indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection and over 360 conference papers. His publications receive an H-index of 52 and over 9,000 citations in the Web of Science Core Collection and receive an H-index of 65 and over 17,000 citations in Google Scholar. He was on the list of the Top 2% of Highly Cited Researchers in the field of civil engineering in 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023, published by Stanford University. He is a recipient of the 2017 SHM Person of the Year Award granted by the international journal 'Structural Health Monitoring'.