Yong-Gui Chen is a professor in the College of Civil Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, China. He obtained his BEng and PhD degrees from Central South University in Hunan Province, China. He has extensive experience in research in the fields of unsaturated soils, geo-environmental engineering, urban engineering geology, and contaminated soils. He has been awarded the 14th Youth Geological Science and Technology Award of the China Geological Society, the National Science Fund for Outstanding Young Scholars (in 2014), the First Prize of the Natural Science Award of the Ministry of Education, China (in 2018), the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars (in 2021), and the Key Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China (in 2024). He has published over 150 papers in international journals and 3 industry standards in his research areas.