Professor Hong K. LO is Dean of Engineering, Chair Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Director of GREAT Smart Cities Institute of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. His expertise includes smart city, dynamic transportation system modeling, traffic control, network reliability, and public transportation analysis. He was one of the Most Cited Researchers in Civil Engineering in the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU). Moreover, Professor Lo was elected as Convener of the conference series Advanced Systems for Public Transportation (CASPT), serves as Founding Editor-in-Chief of Transportmetrica B: Transport Dynamics, Managing Editor of Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems. Professor Lo was awarded the prestigious triennial World Conference on Transportation Research (WCTR) Prize, Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies (EASTS) Outstanding Paper Award, and School of Engineering Research Excellence Award. Prof Lo is appointed as a Justice of the Peace (JP) by the Hong Kong government, and is a Fellow of The Hong Kong Institution of Engineers (FHKIE), Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (FCILT), Fellow of the Hong Kong Institute of Highway and Transportation (FIHT), Fellow of the Hong Kong Society for Transportation Studies (FHKSTS), and elected as a Fellow of Hong Kong Academy of Engineering (FHKEng).