Wengang ZhangDr. Wengang ZHANG is currently full professor in School of Civil Engineering, Chongqing University, China. His research interests focus on deep braced excavation, slope stability, as well as big data and machine learning in geotechnics and geoengineeing. He is now the members of the ISSMGE TC304 (Reliability), TC309 (Machine Learning), TC219 (System Performance of Geotechnical Structures) and TC222 (Digital Twin). He has published 117 academic articles in internationally reputable journals and 17 papers were of ESI highly cited (3 out of them are Hot papers). The overall citation is greater than 4600, with h index of 36. He was selected as the 2021 Most Cited Chinese Researchers for exceptional research performance in the field of Civil Engineering. He serves journal Geoscience Frontiers as Associate Editor, and is in the editorial board of Journal of Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Georisk, Natural Hazards Research, etc. He won the Georisk Most Cited Paper Award 2021, Underground Space Outstanding Paper Award 2021 and Computers and Geotechnics Sloan Outstanding Paper Award 2019. Read More Read Less