Prof. Dr. Hong Xiao obtained a master's degree in road and railway engineering from the School of Civil Engineering at Southwest Jiaotong University from 2001 to 2004 and a doctoral degree in 2007. From 2013 to 2014, he served as a visiting scholar at UIUC at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States. From November 2010 to December 2017, he served as an associate professor in the Department of Road and Railway Engineering at the School of Civil and Architectural Engineering, Beijing Jiaotong University. From December 2017 to present, he has been a professor. He won the China Patent Excellence Award, the Science and Technology Award of the China Railway Society, and the First Prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award.