Prof. Dr. Zhen-Dong Cui is Dean of Institute of Geotechnical Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology. In July 2008, he obtained the Ph.D. from School of Civil Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, China. Since then, he had been Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology for one year. He joined Shanghai Institute of Geological Survey in 2009.

In July 2010, he joined CUMT as Associate Professor and was promoted to Full Professor in 2013. Supported by China Scholarship Council, from August 2015 to August 2016, as Visiting Scholar, he researched and studied in the department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder. He won Nomination of 100 Excellent Doctoral Dissertations in China in 2011. He won Shanghai Excellent Doctoral Dissertations in 2010 and Excellent doctorate thesis of Tongji University in 2009. He has applied for 10 national invented patents, among which seven patents have been awarded.