Prof. Dr. Shiping Yin is a Professor at the School of Mechanics and Civil Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology. He is also the Deputy Director of Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory of Environmental Disasters and Structural Reliability in Civil Engineering. He received his MSc in Engineering Mechanics from Shandong Jianzhu University (2005) and his PhD in Structural Engineering from Dalian University of Technology (2010). From 2015 to 2016, he was a Visiting Scholar at the Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder, USA. He has won the title of Young and Middle-Aged Academic Leader of Jiangsu Province’s “Qing Lan Project” (2021) and High-Level Talent of Jiangsu Province’s “Six Talent Peaks” (2019). He is a Member and Deputy Secretary-General of the Dam Concrete and Rock Fracture Mechanics Professional Committee of the China Society for Dam Engineering and a Member of the Jiangsu Expert Committee of the Building Identification and Reinforcement Professional Committee of the China Engineering Construction Standardization Association. He is mainly engaged in the research of high-performance concrete materials and structures.