Prof. Fan Kong received his bachelor (2004) and M. Sc. (2007) degrees in Civil Engineering from the Wuhan University of Technology in China, and his Ph.D. degree in Structural Engineering from Tongji University, Shanghai, China. He joined Wuhan University of Technology in 2013 as a Lecturer, and then was promoted to an Associate Professor in 2015. He is currently a full Professor and Huangshan Outstanding Young Scholar in Hefei University of Technology. He visited Rice University working with Prof. Pol D. Spanos, as a visiting student and a visiting scholar, respectively, from 2009 to 2011 and from 2017 to 2018. 

He is the author of approximately 70 peer-reviewed journal papers, more than 30 of which are international journal papers. Prof. Kong is the principal investigator of more than ten scientific research projects, including one General Project funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), one Young Scholar Project funded by NSFC, and one General Project funded by the Hubei Provincial Natural Science Foundation. Besides the academic research, Prof. Kong actively engages in academic management. He serves as a Secretary of International Affairs in the College of Civil Engineering, Hefei University of Technology. He also serves as a Committee Member of the Dynamic Signal Processing Professional Committee of the Chinese Society for Vibration Engineering (CSVE), a Young Committee Member of two Professional Committees (Random Vibration Professional Committee and Structural Vibration Control and Health Monitoring Professional Committee) of CSVE. He is a Young Editorial Board Member of the following journals: Chinese Journal of Applied Mechanics, Journal of Basic Science and Engineering, Earthquake Engineering and Resilience. Prof. Kong has served in the scientific and/or organizing committees of many national or international academic conferences.