Cao Wang is Senior Lecturer and ARC DECRA Fellow at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia. He is a member of the Committee on Probability and Statistics in the Physical Sciences (C(PS)2) and the Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability.

Bilal M. Ayyub is Professor and Director of the Center for Technology and Systems Management at the University of Maryland, USA. He is a distinguished member of ASCE, an honorary member of ASME, and a co-chair of the ASCE-NOAA Task Force on Climate Resilience in Engineering Practice, and he has chaired the ASCE Committee on Adaptation to a Changing Climate.

Michael Beer is Professor and Head of the Institute for Risk and Reliability, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany. He is also part-time Professor at the University of Liverpool and guest Professor at Tongji University and Tsinghua University, China. He is the Chairman of the European Safety and Reliability Association (ESRA) and serves on the Executive Board of the International Safety and Reliability Association (IASSAR), on the Executive Board of the European Association of Structural Dynamics (EASD), and on the Board of Directors of the International Association for Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Management (IAPSAM). He is a fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation.