Ahmed Ishag Hassan Silik is a recent doctoral recipient from Southeast University, Nanjing, China and currently works as a research associate at IIUSE as part of Professor Zhishen Wu’s group. Before that he was a lecturer at the department of civil engineering, Nyala University, Nyala, Sudan and worked as a consultant Civil Engineer in Sudan. He is a Fellow of the Sudanese Engineering Council. His main research interests are focused on the utilization of wavelet transform and AI-based techniques for structural health monitoring, damage identification and big data analysis in civil structural engineering. He has been actively involved in several research topics and activities in the area of SHM related to damage prediction and assessment of structures and bridges, including a collaborative project with colleagues at Saitama University, Japan. He has also been involved an NSFC project on dynamic response assessment and modeling of hysteretic systems. He has published several peer reviewed journal manuscripts and attended several scientific conferences.