Dr. QIAN Xudong is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) at the National University of Singapore (NUS), Deputy Head (Administration and Finance) of CEE at NUS, Group Head of the Structural and Offshore Engineering, Director (Strategy, Partnership and Technology Translation) for Coastal Protection and Flood Resilience Institute Singapore (CFISG), Director for Centre for Offshore Research and Engineering (CORE), and Director for Centre for Advanced Materials and Structures (CAMS) NUS. He received his Bachelor (1st Class Honors) and PhD in Civil Engineering from NUS in 2000 and 2005, respectively. Prior to joining NUS as a faculty member, he worked as a post-doctoral research associate in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (UIUC). Prof Qian’s research interest focuses on the integrity assessment of structures and data driven predictive maintenance. Prof Qian is a member of the editorial board in a number of premier journals including International Journal of Fatigue, Engineering Fracture Mechanics, Fatigue and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures, etc. Prof Qian has been serving as members in different Technical Committees for the International Ship and Offshore Structures Congress from 2009 to 2018. He is also a member of the technical committee in American Society of Testing and Material E08 – Fatigue and Fracture and F42 – Additive Manufacturing.