University of New South Wales, Australia

Professor Wei Gao is Deputy Director of China Affairs at UNSW Sydney’s Faculty of Engineering, Professor and doctoral supervisor at its School of Civil and Environmental Engineering. He has long focused on mechanical/structural dynamics, uncertainty analysis, safety assessment, etc. He led 10 ARC-funded projects, proposed multiple innovative methods (e.g., hybrid random interval fields) and established corresponding solution systems, providing safety/reliability bounds for composite materials and complex structures. He has published over 200 SCI papers (over 4,000 citations), holds one Australian patent (2019100622), with findings applied in multiple engineering fields. Currently, he serves as Associate Editor/Subject Editor/editorial board member for several top journals like Engineering Structures (CAS Q1) and Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering (CAS Q1).