Jian Chu is a professor and the James M. Hoover Chair in Geotechnical Engineering at Iowa State University. He was previously the Director of the Centre for Infrastructure Systems at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, served as chair of a technical committee for the International Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, and was vice president of the Geotechnical Society of Singapore. He has coauthored three books and has published over 250 technical papers in international journals and conferences.
Ivanov Volodymyr is a visiting professor in the Department of Civil,...