A/Prof. Kang Gao is currently working as an Associate Professor in School of Civil Engineering, Southeast University, China. Before this, he got the Ph.D. degree in UNSW, Sydney and worked as a research associate in RMIT University and Cardiff University. He has developed an excellent emerging publication track record publishing over 30 papers in internationally leading journals, 5 patents and conference proceedings. A/Prof. Gao’s research expertise is focused on the static, dynamic characteristics of advanced materials (functionally graded, graphene platelets reinforced materials), the design, optimization, and application of advanced structures (porous, graded porous and lattice structures) in engineering practices. He received youth project from the Natural Science Foundation, Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, Scientific Research Foundation for the Returned Overseas Chinese Scholars, and participated in 4 ARC Discovery projects and one ESPRC project. He is the assistant editor and early career board member of prestigious international journal “Engineering Structures?, the guest editor of Thin-walled Structures. He worked as the invited reviewers for many international journals.