Ming-Xiang Xiong is an associate professor in the School of Civil Engineering, Guangzhou University, Guangdong, China. He received his doctorate from the National University of Singapore. He has been involved in composite structure research and design for more than 15 years, and his extensive research focuses on steel-concrete composite structures subjected to static and extreme environmental load. He has authored and co-authored more than 20 journal papers and the Singapore code on composite structures known as BC4:2015.