Professor Yingxin ZHOU is a mining engineer with more than 30 years of experience in research, engineering, and teaching in rock engineering and underground space technology. He played leading roles in several major pioneering rock engineering and research projects and served as technical advisor to many government ministries in Singapore. He led the rock engineering and technology development for the underground ammunition facility in Singapore and developing new safety standards for underground ammunition storage which have been adopted by NATO. 

Prof. Zhou is a Fellow of the Academy of Engineering Singapore and Fellow of the International Society for Rock Mechanics and Engineering (ISRM). He has been Director (Asia) and a Board Member of the Associated research Centers for the Urban Underground Space (ACUUS) since 2013. He served as ACUUS Vice President during 2013-2016 and ISRM Vice President (Asia) during 2011-2015. He received the Defence Technology Prize 2018 Individual (Engineering) Award and was twice featured in the Institute of Engineers Singapore (IES) Who’s Who in Engineering in Singapore in 2013 and 2020.