ICSECT Plenary Speaker
Dr. Jie Yang, RMIT University, Australia
Dr. Jie Yang is the Distinguished Professor in Engineering in the Mechanical and Automotive Engineering Discipline, School of Engineering, RMIT University. His main research interests include advanced composite structures, nanocomposites, metamaterials, structural stability and dynamics, smart structures and control. He is an author of over 560 papers, including 430 international journal papers and over 130 conference papers, having attracted 35300 Google Scholar citations with an H-index 102. He is the Highly Cited Researcher (Cross Field) in 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2025 by Clarivate Analytics and named by Australian Research Magazine as the Global Field Leader in Mechanical Engineering in 2020, Australia’s Research Field Leader in Mechanical Engineering in 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023, in Structural Engineering in 2021, and in Acoustics & Sound in 2023. Prof. Yang is the recipient of Nishino Medal in 2026 and the Lead Editor-in-Chief of Engineering Structures and an Editorial Board Member of Mechanics of Advanced Materials and Structures, Thin-Walled Structures, International Journal of Structural Stability and Dynamics, Scientific Reports, and Materials.
ICSECT Plenary Speaker
Dr. Yan Zhuge, Adelaide University, Australia
Dr. Yan Zhuge is Bradley Distinguished Professor in Structural Engineering at the School of Civil Engineering & Construction Management, Adelaide University. She has a BEng (Hons) in Civil Engineering and a Masters in Structural Engineering from Beijing, China, a PhD in Structural Engineering from Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Australia. Her primary research focuses on green concrete materials, waste utilization, fibre composite materials and structures. Yan has published 300+ SCI papers in the referred international journals and has been invited as a Plenary/keynote speaker at many international conferences. Her contributions have garnered several Australian government awards and fellowships and attracted funding from the Australian Research Council (ARC) as well as industry partnerships. Yan has held the position of a member in the ARC College of Experts 2019-2025 and was the winner of 2018 South Australia Winnovation award in Engineering category. Yan is an elected follow of Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering (ATSE). Her current H-index is 62 with 14,000+ Citation. She has been recognized by Stanford University since 2021 as one of the world’s top 2% scholars in the area of “Civil Engineering” for both current year and career-long impact.
ICSECT Keynote Speaker
Dr. Ivo CALIO’, University of Catania, Italy
Full professor of Dynamics of Structures, joined at the University of Catania as researcher in 1997. Since his PhD, he has extensively worked on nonlinear analysis methods for dynamic structural analysis, and this research, extended to the modelling of whole masonry and reinforced concrete building behavior under earthquake loadings. He participated in several scientific projects aimed at investigating the seismic assessment of existing concrete and masonry building not designed to resist to earthquake loading. Currently he coordinates a research group for developing alternative macro-element numerical strategies, suitable both for practical engineering purposes and academic investigations. The main results of these researches have being implemented in two structural analysis program 3DMacro, for masonry and mixed reinforced concrete and masonry buildings and HiStrA (Historical Structures Analysis) focused on the Structural Assessment of Historical Monumental Structures and Masonry Bridges subjected to extreme loadings or unexpected events. He is associate editor of the international journal Shock & Vibratio