Dr. Zhu Yulong is an Associate Professor at the University of Emergency Management. He received his Bachelor's and Master's degrees from Southwest Jiaotong University in 2014 and 2017, respectively, and obtained his Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering with a cross-disciplinary focus on hydro-geotechnical interactions from Hokkaido University, Japan, in 2020. He currently serves as a Youth Committee Member of the Seismic Disaster Prevention Committee under the Chinese Society of Hydropower Engineering, and is also a member of both the Chinese Society of Hydropower Engineering and the China Water Resources Strategy Research Association. His representative achievement is the development of the Distributed Runoff Model (DRM)—an integrated hydrological-hydrodynamic theory model formulated in ordinary differential equations—which provides a novel theoretical framework for analyzing flash flood disasters and urban pluvial flooding.
In recent years, Dr. Zhu has served as Principal Investigator for several key research projects, including the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) Young Scientists Fund (Category C), the Langfang Science and Technology Support Program, and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities. He has also participated as Technical Lead in a number of national and international-level projects, such as the National Key Research and Development Program of China, the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Fundamental Research Project, the NSFC Joint Fund Key Project, and the NSFC General Program. He has published over 30 high-quality papers in internationally renowned TOP journals including Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, Engineering Geology, Landslides, Journal of Hydrology, and Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies, etc. In addition, Dr. Zhu developed the Drodec software during his tenure at North China Electric Power University, and has continued to refine it since joining the University of Emergency Management. The software has now gained wide recognition within the water disaster industry.
Xingya Feng is an Associate Research Professor and Doctoral Supervisor at Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech). He received his Bachelor degree from Hohai University in 2011 and Ph.D. degrees the National University of Singapore in 2016. From 2016 to 2019, he worked as a Research Engineer in Deepwater Technology Research Centre at Bureau Veritas and then a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Oxford. Since he joined SUSTech, he has led the Hydrodynamics Lab at the Department of Ocean Science and Engineering. Since 2021, he has been a committee member of the Hydrodynamics Group of the Chinese Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, and since 2023, he has served as an academic committee member of the National CFD Conference on Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering.
Xingya Feng’s research interests include nonlinear potential flow theory, higher-order boundary element methods, numerical wave tanks, and offshore renewable energy. He has published over 40 SCI-indexed journal papers, including leading journals such as Advanced Science, JFM, CE, PRF, CMAME, PoF, with two ESI Highly Cited papers and one Editor’s Feature. His scientific contribution lies in two aspects, one is the comprehensive demonstration of extreme wave formation mechanism and the other is the development of a fully nonlinear numerical wave tank model. The former provides various scientific explanation of ocean extreme wave, and the latter provides advanced tools to study nonlinear wave-structure interactions. He has received the Best Paper Award at the 2026 OMAE, the Best Paper Award at the IAHR-Coastlab20, and the 2024 JHD Highly Cited Paper Award. He has led more than 10 research projects from UK Newton Fund, Hong Kong RGC, National Research and Development Program of China and Shenzhen Overseas High-end Talent Program. He has served as a session chair at international conferences such as ISOPE and OMAE, and is an editorial board member of the Journal of Hydrodynamics.
Dr. Siming Zheng serves as a ZJU100 Young Professor at Zhejiang University in China and holds a concurrent appointment as a Visiting Associate Professor at the University of Plymouth in the UK. He earned his Bachelor's degree from Tianjin University in 2011 and his Ph.D. from Tsinghua University in 2016. He then undertook postdoctoral research at Tsinghua University, before moving to the University of Plymouth in the UK, where he served as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow and then COAST Research Fellow, and was subsequently promoted to Lecturer in Ocean Engineering. In 2022, he successfully secured funding from the National Natural Science Foundation of China through its Science Fund Program for Excellent Young Scientists (Overseas). Dr. Zheng was named among the `Top 2% World Ranking Scientists’ by Stanford/Elsevier, and received the title of `Distinguished Young Scholar of China Frontiers of Engineering’ by the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE).
Dr. Zheng's research addresses key challenges in offshore renewable energy and wave-structure interactions, with particular interests in hydroelasticity, metastructure-based wave control, and the hydrodynamic optimisation of wave energy converters. His theoretical work extends from floating elastic plates, porous structures, and metastructures to offshore solar farms, wave farms and marine structure-integrated wave energy converters. He is the author of over 100 peer-reviewed SCI-indexed journal papers, including nine published in the Journal of Fluid Mechanics. He published a book with Springer Press and contributed to the writing of two chapters in a book published by CRC Press. He is currently an associate editor of Journal of Fluids and Structures and on the editorial boards of journals such as Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews, Renewable Energy, Ocean Engineering, and serves as a guest editor for Physics of Fluids, Ocean Modelling, etc. He is also a member of the Technical Program Committee for the International Society of Offshore and Polar Engineers (ISOPE). Additionally, he serves as deputy secretary general of the Marine Renewable Energy Technology Committee of the China Society for Hydropower Engineering.
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