Ghada Karaki is a senior lecturer at the University of the West of England (UWE Bristol) in 2023. Before this, She was an Assistant Professor of Structural Engineering at Birzeit University and an Associate Researcher at Bauhaus University Weimar, and held visiting research positions at KU Leuven and the University of Tokyo. She received her Ph.D. in Structural Engineering from Bauhaus University Weimar. Her research focuses on performance-based seismic design, retrofit of buildings, structural fire engineering, sustainable structural design, structural health monitoring, machine learning applications in structural engineering, and uncertainty, sensitivity, and reliability analyses. Rami Hawileh is a professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at the College of Engineering at the American University of Sharjah. He earned a B.Sc. in Civil Engineering from the Birzeit University in 1998, an M.Sc. in Civil Engineering/Structures from the Bradley University in 2000, and a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering/Structural Engineering & Computational Mechanics from the University of Wisconsin in 2005. He is also a member of the International Institute for FRP in Construction (IIFC) and the American Concrete Institute (ACI), as well as the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). His research interests include structures and computational mechanics, rehabilitation and strengthening of concrete structures, fire resistance, and finite element analysis.