Prof. Xiangsheng CHEN

Dr. CHEN Xiangsheng is currently a Chair Professor at Shenzhen University (Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Foreign member of Russian Academy of Engineering),  Dean of the College of Civil and Transportation Engineering, and Director of the Underground Polis Academy. His interests are in tunnel and underground engineering, urban rail transit engineering, geotechnical engineering, shaft construction, artificial frozen soil mechanics and freezing technology. He studied or visited at Huainan Institute of Mining Technology, Technical Universitaet of Berlin and Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum successively, Tsinghua University and University of Cambridge as a By-Fellow. He has successively held the positions of Director of Beijing Shaft Construction Research Institute of China Coal Research Institute and Director (also deputy chief engineer) of the Institute Group, as well as Chief Engineer (deputy general manager) of Shenzhen Metro Group Co., LTD. He has been successively supported by more than 80 government scientific research grants, including major projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, and was in charge of more than 60 national key engineering projects. Has won 3 National Science and Technology Progress Awards, 16 provincial, ministerial and national academic society awards, MAO Yisheng Science and Technology Award – the National Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering Grand Prize, 4 Jeme Tien Yow Engineering Awards, the second Prize of National Teaching Achievement Award and the title of Model Worker in the National Education System. And he is the author of 15 monographs and over 300 journal papers. He concurrently serves as the Executive Deputy Director of the National Key Laboratory of Intelligent Geotechnics and Tunnelling, the Director of the National Engineering Research Center for Deep Shaft Construction Technology, and the Director of the Key Laboratory of Resilient Infrastructure for Coastal Cities of MOE. He has academical Standing memberships of China Civil Engineering Society, China Highway and Transportation Society and CSRME in additional to the editor of Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Deputy Director of the Editorial Board of Journal of Underground Space and Engineering (Chinese), Editorial Board Member of Journal of the China Railway Society and Vice Chairman of the Editorial Board of China Railway Science (Chinese) and Honorary Editor-in-Chief of Tunnel Construction (Chinese and English) Editorial Board.

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