Mr. Saleh Behbahani
Ph.D, Purdue University

Mr. Saleh Behbahani has B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Mining Engineering. He is currently doing his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering at Purdue University under supervision of Dr. Tom Iseley. Right after getting his B.Sc.  degree, he was hired by the Perlite Construction Co. and worked as supervisor on the Tohid Tunnel project which is one of the major tunneling projects in Tehran using sequential excavation method (SEM).  Before joining Purdue, he was assisting Dr. Iseley as a teaching assistant and research assistant at the Trenchless Technology Center (TTC), Louisiana Tech University (LA Tech) for about 7 years. While working at the TTC, he had been involved with numerous research projects and workshops on pipeline inspection, pipeline condition assessment, pipeline rehabilitation, cured-in-place pipe (CIPP), underground asset management, utility investigation, assessment of hydrocarbon exposure in sewer systems and rehabilitation options, etc. Mr. Behbahani is the coordinator of the TTC Specialty School programs including the Auger Boring School and the ASCE’s Utility Engineering and Surveying Institute (UESI) Utility Investigation School (UIS). Since Mr. Behbahani came to the USA, he has assisted Dr. Iseley with the development of online and classroom courses for the Certification of Training in Asset Management (CTAM) program for the Buried Asset Management Institute-International (BAMI-I) where he serves as the president of the non-profit association. Mr. Behbahani is the manager of CTAM Courses. CTAM program has 4 courses taken by individuals from 15 countries. CTAM Courses benefit Professional Engineers with years of experience in management of underground asset infrastructure as well as municipalities. Mr. Behbahani was honored to receive the Rapid Excavation & Tunneling Conference (RETC) Student Attendance Scholarship in 2017 and 2019, and the Underground Construction Association of the Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration (UCA of SME) Executive Committee Scholarship in 2018. Mr. Behbahani has received the Associate Water Asset Manager (AWAM) Certificate from the BAMI-I (License 0003). Furthermore, he has been able to maintain his GPA 4.0 out of 4.0 in the Ph.D. program. Mr. Behbahani has had several articles published in nationally/internationally recognized magazines and journals. 

Ms. Gao Nifang
Zhejiang Communications Construction Group Co., Ltd. Underground Engineering Branch

My name is Gao Nifang. I am female.I am 31 years old. I comes from Zhejiang Communications Construction Group Co.,Ltd. Now I’m working in No.2 contract section of high voltage circuit changed down construction of Xiasha development zone as the technical head of pipe jacking construction. Since 2017, I started to work in the trenchless pipe jacking construction technology management, in the Chaoyong-Xingnan π220KV circuit project, the pipe-jacking diameter is 3000mm,single pipe-jacking is 620m. In the No.2 contract section of high voltage circuit changed down construction of Xia sha development zone, the double row curve pipe-jacking diameter is4000mm,the maximum length of single pipe-jacking is390m and the total length is 2.3km. The trenchless construction crossed through the river,road,communications tower,etc.safely. In this period, I participated in the drafting of one standard, two engineering methods,one patent and four papers.We overcame various technical difficulties of caisson and pipe jacking. The project progressed smoothly when I was the technical leader. Meanwhile,“a kind of cassion subsidence construction adjacent to the underground method”that I participated in won the patent,and the construction method won the third prize of nation communication construction science and technology.

Ms. Wang Niannian
Postdoctor, Zhengzhou University

Niannian Wang, female, Ph.D., 31-year-old, master tutor. Associate Professor in the School of Water Conservancy Engineering, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou. In 2019 attains the Dalian University of Technology structural engineering doctor’s degree. Major research areas include: Non-destructive detection of engineering structures based on machine vision; Engineering risk identification, monitoring and early warning based on artificial intelligence technology; Big data collection and analysis based on mobile group intelligence sensing technology, etc. Recent research projects include: China Postdoctoral General Fund (2020M672276); Key scientific research project of Henan University (21A560013); Open Fund of National Engineering Research Center for Dam Safety (CX2020K10). Twenty-two high-level academic papers have been published, including 18 SCI papers. Successively won the honorary title of Distinguished PhD of Zhengzhou University, and achieved the ASCE Best Paper Award.

Lu Hongfang
Louisiana Tech University

Lu Hongfang, male, born in 1991. He is graduated from Louisiana Tech University in 2020, and his research advisor is Dr. Tom Iseley. He is mainly engaged in the research of trenchless technology and engineering data mining. He has published more than 30 papers indexed by SCI database, two of which are ESI hot papers and one is highly cited paper. His paper has been cited more than 400 times in Google Scholar.

Zhang Xiaojing
Shanghai JiaYou City Construction Co., Ltd.

Zhang Xiaojing, female, Han nationality, born in 1981, graduated from China University of Geosciences (Wuhan) in 2007, master of geological engineering. Now works in Shanghai JiaYou City Construction Co., Ltd.,engaged in power trenchless pipe laying technology innovation and industry-university-research promotion work,won many patents and awards with the team.

Ma Peng
Ph.D, Kyushu University

Ma Peng, is a Ph. D student of the Department of Earth Resources, Kyushu University, Japan. The research directions are about the curve rectangular pipe jacking method and trenchless technology in urban underground space development. He has published 2 papers (sci) and authorized 3 invention patents in China.

Ge Yanchao
Chief Engineer, Henan Zhongtuo Petroleum Engineering&Technology Co., Ltd.

Muhammad Farid Ghazali
Engineer/Researcher, University of Petroleum and Technology, Malaysia

-The research concerns about the technology uses a novel technique of measuring strains and movements on slopes in a near continuous manner using fibre optic distributed sensor known as Brillouin Optical Time-Domain Analysis (BOTDA).

Research Officer, UNIVERSITY TEKNOLOGI PETRONAS (01 May 2017 -Now)

Kazuki Maehara
Kyushu University

I enrolled in Department of Earth Resources Engineering Kyushu University in April 2014. After four years of schooling, I graduated from the university in March 2018.  I enrolled in the Department of Earth Resources Engineering Faculty of Engineering Kyushu University in April 2018, and I belong to the laboratory of Rock Engineering and Mining Machinery.