Dr. Nori Nakata is a Staff Scientist in the Energy Geosciences Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and a Principal Research Scientist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received his Bachelor of Engineering (2008) and Master of Engineering (2010) degrees from Kyoto University, and his PhD degree at Colorado School of Mines in 2013. He received the Mendenhall prize from the Colorado School of Mines for his PhD and is a recipient of IUGG Early Career Scientist Award in 2023. Nori’s research interests are extensive and include crustal/global seismology, exploration geophysics, volcanism, civil engineering, wave phenomena and earthquakes and microseismicity. Before he joined LBL in 2020 and MIT in 2019, he was a postdoc fellow at Stanford University in 2013-2016, an assistant professor at the University of Oklahoma in 2016-2018.

Fangming Jiang is now a full professor at Guangzhou Institute of Energy Conversion (GIEC) of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). He founded and has been serving as the director of Laboratory of Advanced Energy Systems since 2011. He got his Ph D degree from Institute of Engineering Thermophysics of CAS in 2001. Before joining in GIEC, he worked for IMM-GmbH (2002-2004), University of Aveiro (2004-2006), and The Pennsylvania State University (2006-2012). Dr. Jiang has authored about 180 peer-reviewed journal articles, is holding about 30 patents, and active in multiple research fields such as geothermal energy exploitation, fuel cell and battery science and technology.

Jong-Sub Lee is a Professor at the School of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering at Korea University, and had served as an Associate Dean at the Graduate School, KU (2017-2019). Jong-Sub Lee received his bachelor’s degree in in civil and environmental engineering from Korea University in 1991 and his master’s degree in civil and environmental engineering from KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology), Korea in 1993. After working for the Hyundai Engineering and Construction Company for seven years (1993~1999) as a research engineer, he entered the civil and environmental engineering graduate program at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) in 2000. In 2003, he received his Ph.D. from Georgia Tech. In 2005, he was hired as an Assistant Professor in Korea University, where he is currently a professor. He is also a Principal Investigator (PI) of Hyper-converged Forensic Research Center for Infrastructure (ERC sponsored by National Research Foundation of Korea). He delivered many keynote lectures in international conferences including the 19th International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ICSMGE). He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering of Korea. He published more than 130 SCI journal papers. His research interests are non-destructive testing and evaluation, foundations, and in-situ subsurface characterizations with advanced techniques.