Dr. Xunchang Fei obtained his PhD degree from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, USA, in 2015. He worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Michigan in 2016 and at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia, between 2016 and 2018. He joined Nanyang Technological University, Singapore in 2018. His main research areas are: (1) solid waste recovery, treatment, and management; and (2) geoenvironmental engineering. He received the 2021 Arthur Casagrande Professional Development Award from the American Society of Civil Engineers. He serves as a member of Technical Committee 215 of the International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, and a member of the Geoenvironmental Engineering Technical Committee of the American Society of Civil Engineers.