Meet the Volume Editors

Dr. Meisam Gordan is a researcher in Structural Engineering with a focus on Industry 4.0 technologies and structural health monitoring systems. He has been recognized as a reliable referee and editor of different peer-reviewed journals. He is a member of renowned institutes such as the American Society of Civil Engineers, Board of Engineers Malaysia, and Institution of Engineers Malaysia. He has published various articles in high-quality journals

in different fields such as structural health monitoring, data mining, artificial intelligence, vibration control systems, the Internet of Things (IoT), big data, blockchain, smart cities, finite element analysis, and materials. He is currently working on a European Union's Horizon 2020-funded ongoing project named PRECINCT as a postdoctoral research fellow at University College Dublin (UCD), Ireland. The PRECINCT project is developing serious games using digital twins and data mining to assess critical infrastructure protection against combined cyber and physical threats.

Dr. Khaled Ghaedi has experience in both academia and industry. He has published articles in prestigious journals that have produced novel patented damping devices, guidelines for structural retrofitting, and versatile models to predict structural damages. He has contributed to the process of knowledge sharing through his roles as editor, reviewer, speaker, and committee member for journals, conferences, and different organizations. Dr. Ghaedi is

also a committee member of the well-known international design code ASCE 7-22. He is currently supporting the engineering industry in Southeast Asia as a structural technical director. He is the founder of PASOFAL Engineering group, a talented team recognized for solving complex engineering challenges. He is highly skilled in research funding acquisition, software training, and design consultation through finite element methods, computational fluid dynamics, structural health monitoring, building information modeling, performance-based design, and other organizations.

Dr. Vala Saleh received his MSc in Electrical and Communication Engineering from Tenaga Nasional University (UNITEN), Malaysia, and his Ph.D. from Shiraz University of Technology (SU-TECH), Iran. His research interests include Industry 4.0, green Internet of Things, control systems design, signal processing, network coding, information and coding theory, and multi-objective optimization algorithms. He is currently a lecturer at the

University of Sistan and Baluchestan, Iran. He is also a reviewer for several journals, including *Internet of Things and Cloud Computing*, and *Advances in Science, Technology and Engineering Systems Journal*.

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