CHOW Wan Ki is an Emeritus Professor of Building Science and Fire Engineering in the Department of Building Equipment Engineering at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, a former Lecture Professor of Building Science and Fire Engineering, a former Director of the Department of Building Equipment Engineering, and a former Director of the Fire Engineering Research Center. He has been engaged in university education, research, and administration for over 40 years. Since 2002, he has served as the founding chairman of the Hong Kong branch of the American Society of Fire Engineers. Since 2007, he has served as the chairman of the Asia Pacific Fire Science and Technology Association. Since 2015, he has served as the contact group chairman of the Asia Pacific branch of the American Society of Fire Engineers and was elected as a member of the Board of Directors of the American Society of Fire Engineers from 2016 to 2019. In December 2012, he was elected as an academician of the Hong Kong Academy of Engineering Sciences. In July 2013, he was appointed as a non official justice of the peace by the Chief Executive of the * * Special Administrative Region. Received the Hat's Off Award, Harold E. Nelson Service Award, and John L. Bryan Mentor Award from the American Society of Fire Engineers in 2003, 2006, and 2011, respectively. In 2015, he was awarded the Lifetime Contribution Award by the Asia Pacific Fire Science and Technology Association. In 2018, he was awarded the Gold Award by the Hong Kong Institute of Engineers. Professor Zhou leads a team of fire engineering research centers with international leading standards in Hong Kong. Over the past 40 years, he has led multiple domestic and foreign key scientific research projects and key technology application projects. He has been invited to serve as a senior expert consultant for Hong Kong and domestic * * departments, university research institutes, and the industry. In addition, he has held multiple positions at the International Fire Science Society, as well as senior members of the Hong Kong Society of Engineers, the Royal Society of Registered Equipment Engineers, and the American Society of Fire Engineers. Professor Zhou's main research areas are architectural science, fire safety science, and engineering. Over the past 40 years, Professor Zhou has achieved outstanding results in fire modeling, fire protection systems, fire protection for different types of buildings, simulation and evaluation of building energy consumption, and indoor aerodynamics. He has become a senior expert in computational fluid dynamics, especially in fire field modeling. At present, its main research direction is fire protection and natural ventilation measures in super high-rise buildings over 300 meters. Professor Zhou has published over 1000 academic papers in various international academic journals and conferences, and over 300 papers in international academic journals of the Scientific Citation Index (SCI). In 2020, Stanford University compiled the "Standardized Citation Index Database for Scientific Authors", which ranks the 22nd among 17157 scholars in the world in the academic field of "strategy, defense and security research". Professor Zhou also serves as a visiting professor at multiple universities, including Victoria University of Science and Technology in Australia, University of Altes in the UK, University of Science and Technology of China (also appointed as a doctoral supervisor), Harbin Engineering University (also appointed as a doctoral supervisor), Capital University of Economics and Trade, Beijing University of Technology, Nanjing University of Technology, Shandong University of Architecture and Technology, and China Civil Aviation Flight Academy. Under his guidance, over 60 doctoral students have successfully graduated and obtained doctoral degrees in building science and fire engineering. Professor Zhou led the implementation of fire safety performance design for high-rise buildings, long tunnels, deep underground subways, train stations, and large auditoriums in developing countries, and proposed suggestions. And provided suggestions on new regulations for fire safety, ventilation, and lighting to * * based on the research results. And proposed fire safety regulations to over 200 large-scale construction projects in various regions of the world, including the 1990 Hong Kong New Airport project as a consultant; 2010 Taiwan High Speed Railway; The venue of the 2005 Beijing Olympics; And projects such as Taiwan's high-speed rail in 2010. In the past 40 years, I have developed the disciplines of Building Services Engineering and Fire Engineering at the Hong Kong Institute of Engineers; In 2002, the Society of Fire Engineers Hong Kong Branch was established and served as the president to lead related professional activities. Recognized as an internationally leading leader in fire engineering.

Jing Guoxun, Ph.D., professor, doctoral supervisor, expert enjoying special allowances from the State Council, outstanding expert from Henan Province, holds a doctoral degree, and currently serves as the President and Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee of Anyang Institute of Technology.

Sun Jinhua is currently a chair professor at the University of Science and Technology of China, director of the Academic Subcommittee, and director of the Energy Fire Safety Research Institute. He has been selected as an academician of the European Academy of Sciences, a member of the International Combustion Society, a highly cited scholar in Elsevier, and a recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Asian Australian Society for Fire Science and Technology, enjoying special allowances from the State Council. I have been engaged in teaching and research on new energy fire safety, building and industrial fire prevention and control, such as lithium-ion batteries and hydrogen energy, for a long time. He has successively presided over more than 20 important projects, including the National "973" Program, National Fund Key Projects, National Key R&D Program Projects, and EU International Science and Technology Cooperation Projects. He has published more than 360 SCI papers in international journals in the fields of energy, combustion, safety, etc., and has been cited by SCI for more than 12000 times in journals such as Science and Nature Energy. He has published 11 monographs and textbooks, won the first prize and the second prize of the National Award for Science and Technology Progress, as well as the Anhui Natural Science Award, the Provincial Youth Science and Technology Award, the provincial exemplary individual, the provincial exemplary individual of teacher ethics Nearly 20 provincial and ministerial level (national level) science and technology awards or commendations, such as the Outstanding Graduate Guidance Teacher Award of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Deng Jun, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor and Doctoral Supervisor of the "Three Qin Scholars" in Shaanxi Province. Currently serving as the Vice President of Xi'an University of Science and Technology, the leader of the National Key Discipline of Safety Technology and Engineering at Xi'an University of Science and Technology, the leader of the Innovation Team of the Ministry of Education, the director of the Engineering Research Center of the Ministry of Western Coal Mine Safety Education and the Shaanxi Provincial Coal Mine Disaster Prevention and Control Engineering Center, and the deputy director of the Key Laboratory of Western Coal Mine Mining and Disaster Prevention and Control of the Ministry of Education. National level candidate for the New Century Hundred Talents Project, enjoying special subsidies from the State Council government, winning the China Youth Science and Technology Award, supported by the Ministry of Education's New Century Excellent Talents Program, an expert with outstanding contributions in Shaanxi Province, and the first level candidate for Shaanxi Province's "Third Five Year Plan" talent.

Lu Zhaoming, a professor with a doctoral degree from the School of Architecture at the University of Hong Kong, has served as the Executive Director of the Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering at City University of Hong Kong, a member of the Engineering Department of the Hong Kong Research Council, and the Secretary General of the Hong Kong Fire Code Revision Committee. In 2020, he was named the "scientist with the most cited papers in the top 2% of the world from 1996 to 2019" by Stanford University and is a well-known scholar in the field of international fire science and fire engineering research. At present, the research direction mainly focuses on building fire safety technology and personnel evacuation and behavior recognition. Over the past 30 years, I have accumulated rich experience in my professional field and achieved fruitful research results. I have published over 300 high-level academic papers and served as the chief researcher for more than 10 special research projects of the Hong Kong Research Council.

Yong Wang graduated from South West Jiao Tong University in China in 1984 and was awarded a British Council Scholarship.  He came to the UK in 1985 and earned his PhD in Structural Engineering from the University of Sheffield in 1988.  He worked for eight years at the Building Research Establishment (including as a core member of the BRE team that carrid out the Cardington structural fire tests) prior to joining the University of Manchester in 1997.  His main research interests are structural and fire engineering, steel and composite structures and fire protection materials and systems.  He is a Chartered Engineer, Fellow of the Institution of Structural Engineers and the UK's Higher Education Academy.  He is the Leader of the Structural & Fire Engineering theme.

Prof Bart Merci is Full Professor at Ghent University, Belgium.  He is the head of the research unit ‘Combustion, Fire and Fire Safety’ at the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture.  The research team consists of 3 postdoctoral researchers and about 10 PhD students.  He is the Program Director of the International Master of Science in Fire Safety Engineering, with partners: Ghent University, The University of Edinburgh, Lund University, ETH Zürich, University of Queensland and University of Maryland.  He is the former President of the Belgian Section of The Combustion Institute.  He is Editor-in-Chief of Fire Safety Journal and serves in the editorial board of other journals.  He is member of the Executive Committee of the International Association for Fire Safety Science.  He co-authored more than 130 paper on WoS and 2 books.

Professor Ye Guiping has been appointed as the Vice President of City University of Macau since August 2022. Previously, Professor Ye Guiping served as Associate Vice President and Assistant President of City University of Macau, responsible for scientific research and academic development. He has also served as a member of the Teaching and Academic Committee of the University of Science and Technology of Macau and the Curriculum Coordination Director of the School of International Tourism at the University of Science and Technology of Macau. He has won the "Teaching Excellence Award" and has widely recognized and rich experience in higher education teaching and management. Professor Ye Guiping, as a talented young person in Macau, has a good educational background. He once obtained a bachelor's degree in economics from Sun Yat sen University, a master's degree in management from Peking University, a master's degree in public administration from the National School of Administration, a doctor's degree in economics from the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and engaged in post doctoral study and research at the post doctoral station of political science in Wuhan University. Professor Ye Guiping, as an academic elite in Hong Kong and Australia, has achieved outstanding academic achievements. I have been invited by renowned academic institutions such as the University of Coimbra in Portugal, the University of Brasilia, the National University of Singapore, and the Oriental Portuguese Society to engage in research as postdoctoral and visiting scholars. I have also served as a senior technician in the Research and Information Department of the Macao Trade and Investment Promotion Bureau, and have published nearly 50 articles on the political, economic, and social development of Macao. I have successfully published two academic monographs in well-known domestic publishing houses. He has won the Postdoctoral Forum Award of the Central Party School of the Communist Party of China, and as a project leader, has undertaken national, provincial, and ministerial level projects such as the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Hong Kong and Macao Basic Law Committee of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, the National Hong Kong and Macao Research Association, and the China Law Society. Has a high reputation and academic influence in Macau, and currently focuses on international relations, Portuguese speaking countries, and Macau research.

Ji Jie, doctor, professor, doctoral supervisor, deputy director of the State Key Laboratory of Fire Science, University of Science and Technology of China, and deputy director of the National and Local Joint Engineering Research Center for Thermal Safety Technology, is mainly engaged in research on fire plume epidemic, building fire prevention and control, real-time dynamic prediction of forest fires, and disaster risk assessment methods. Served as an editorial board member for Fire Safety Journal, Fire Technology, Building Simulation, Journal of China University of Science and Technology, and Deputy Director and Secretary General of the Science Popularization Education Committee of the China Fire Protection Association. As the person in charge, I have undertaken national key research and development plan projects, key projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, and outstanding youth science funds. I have been selected as a leading talent in scientific and technological innovation under the National "People's Plan", a leading talent in young scientific and technological innovation under the "Innovation Talent Promotion Plan" of the Ministry of Science and Technology, a top youth talent under the National "People's Plan", an outstanding member of the Youth Innovation Promotion Association of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and a new century outstanding talent under the Ministry of Education. He won the first prize of Science and Technology Innovation Award of China Fire Protection Association, exemplary individual of National Popular Science Work (Ministry of Science and Technology, Central Propaganda Department, China Association for Science and Technology), Special Prize of Anhui Province Teaching Achievement Award, "Wu Zhonghua Outstanding Young Scholar Award" of the 12th Wu Zhonghua Award Fund, Lu Jiaxi Young Talent Award of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Outstanding Tutor Award of Chinese Academy of Sciences, and "Outstanding Contribution Award" of National Fire Protection Science Communication in 2019 exemplary individual.

Wai Cheong Tam (Fed)

Dr. Andy Tam is a ZP4 Mechanical Engineer in the Fire Fighting Technology Group of the Fire Research Division of the Engineering Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Prior to his tenure, Andy was a NRC Postdoctoral Research Associate at NIST after receiving his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, where he developed the neural network based radiation solver (RADNNET-ZM) for heat transfer analysis in fire research with his thesis advisor, Professor Walter W. Yuen. Currently, his research interests are thermal radiation heat transfer, machine learning for interdisciplinary research studies on smart fire fighting, fire fighters’ health monitoring, and cooktop fire prevention, and heat transfer analysis for lithium-ion batteries.