Jie Li is Chair Professor in Structural Engineering at Tongji University, China, member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the honorary director of Shanghai Institute of Disaster Prevention and Relief. Prof. Li has been devoted to the theoretical research on structural engineering and stochastic mechanics for over 40 years. His contributions are distributed in the areas of stochastic dynamics, damage mechanics and engineering reliability. In 2014, he was awarded the Alfred M. Freudenthal Medal by ASCE. In 2017-2022, he served as president of the International Association for Structural Safety and Reliability (IASSAR). Meng-Ze Lyu, PhD, is a research fellow at the Institute for Risk & Reliability, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany.

His research interests focus on stochastic dynamics, reliability analysis and design optimization of complex engineering systems, including the development of dimension-reduced probability density evolution equations, time-variant extreme value distributions of Markov processes, decoupled multi-probability density evolution method, and their applications in seismic, wind, and geotechnical safety and fragility assessment.