Shun-Xiang SONG / PhD Candidate - PolyU

Research interests: 1) DEM simulation in geotechnical engineering; 2) Constitutive modeling of soils; 3) Coupled hydro-mechanical modeling of suffusion in gap-graded cohesionless soils.

Bidur PATHAK / PhD Candidate - PolyU

Research interests: 1) Modification of soft clay and study of clay-structure interface behaviour; 2) Finite element simulation.

Min-Hao ZHANG / PhD Candidate - PolyU

Research interests: 1) Penetration and pull-out capacity of Dynamically Installed Anchors; 2) Large deformation FEM (ALE, CEL, SPH); 3) Realistic numerical simulation of coupling between sea water, seabed soil and pile foundation.

Xian-Han WU / PhD Candidate - PolyU

Research interests: Mechanical properties and multi-scale modeling of marine organic soil.

Hai-Lin WANG / PhD Candidate - PolyU / Tongji Uni.

Research interests: 1) Artificial intelligence in geotechnical engineering; 2) Big data statistical analysis of basic geotechnical characteristics.

Rui LIANG / PhD Student - PolyU

Research interests: Mechanism and modeling of NSF on piles in clay.

Chuang ZHOU / PhD Student - PolyU / Tongji Uni.

Research interests: 1) MSuffusion erosion by coupled CFD-DEM; 2) Fluid-solid coupling; 3) Numerical simulation of non-spherical particle in DEM.

Geng-Fu HE / PhD Student - PolyU

Research interests: 1) Prediction of soil water retention by artificial intelligence; 2) Steady-state liquefaction strength of soils; 3) Effects of soil liquefaction on slope stability.

Ya-Shi QIU / PhD Student - PolyU

Research interests: 1) Application of Machine Learning in Geotechnical Engineering.

Rui-Dong LI / PhD Student - PolyU

Research interests: 1) Application of Machine Learning in Geotechnical Engineering; 2) Particle breakage of carbonate sands and relevant CT reconstruction.

Yan-Ling TANG / PhD Student - PolyU

Research interests: 1) Analysis of river network morphology and its formation causes; 2) The long-term influence of groundwater flow on river network; 3) Numerical simulation of fluvial landform evolution.

Hong-Chi LIU / PhD Student - PolyU

Research interests: 1) Digital twin in geotechnical engineering; 2) Artificial intelligence in geotechnics.

James YUEN / PhD Student - PolyU

Research interests: 1) Ground Improvement by deep cement mixing (DCM) ; 2) Finite element analysis for geotechnical engineering.

Hao-Han HUANG / PhD Student - PolyU

Xiang GAO / PhD Student - PolyU

Research interests: 1) Particle breakage simulated by DEM; 2) Multiscale analysis in geotechnical engineering; 3) Analytical solution on tunnel excavation.

Zi-Qi TANG/ PhD Student - PolyU

Research interests: 1) Combined Finite-discrete element method; 2) Finite element large deformation analysis for geotechnical engineering; 3) Multi-physical field coupling calculation (THMC).

Xi-Wen ZHOU / Research Assistant - PolyU

Research interests: 1) Large deformation simulation in geomechanics based on convex cone programming and particle finite element method; 2) Fluid-structure-soil interaction analysis algorithm using particle finite element method.

Qi-Meng GUO / PhD Student - PolyU / Zhejiang Uni.

Research interests: 1) Artificial intelligence in geotechnical engineering; 2) Development of advanced tools for soil and water detection; 3) DEM simulation in geotechnical engineering.

Jirayut SUDSAMERJAI / PhD Student - PolyU

Research interests: 1) Track ballast micromechanics analysis using Discrete Element Methods (DEM); 2) CFD-DEM Coupled Simulation of the ballast railway track behavior; 3) Ballast railway track improvements.

Hang FENG / PhD Student - PolyU

Research interests: 1) Finite element analysis in offshore geotechnical engineering; 2) Machine learning in geotechnical engineering.

Xiao-Xuan CHEN / PhD Student - PolyU

Research interests: 1) Artificial intelligence in geotechnical engineering; 2) Physics-informed neural network for geotechnical engineering; 3) Constitutive modeling of soils.

Qin-Feng LI / PhD Student - PolyU

Research interests: 1) Artificial intelligence in geotechnical engineering.

Xiang-Yu HU / PhD Student - PolyU

Research interests: 1) Application of Machine Learning in Geotechnical Engineering; 2) Coupled CFD-DEM-FEM simulation; 3) Elastic Visco - Plastic (EVP) constitutive model.

Dan-Chen ZHAO / PhD Student - PolyU

Research interests: 1) FEM analysis for rock mechanics in engineering; 2) Peridynamic analysis for rock mechanics.

Hao-Ruo XU / PhD Student - PolyU

Research interests: 1) Artificial intelligence in geotechnical engineering; 2) 3D reconstruction application in geotechnical engineering; 3) Constitutive modeling of soils.

Hao-Yu FANG / PhD Student - PolyU

Research interests: 1) Long-term Macro-/micro- Behavior of sustainable binder-treated HKMD against Wetting–drying Cycles; 2) CO2 Sequestration Based Microbially Induced Calcium Carbonate Precipitation; 3) Bio-Stimulated Microbial Induced Calcite Precipitation.

Sheng ZHANG / PhD Student - PolyU

Research interests: 1) Anisotropy in small-strain shear modulus; 2) Constitutive modeling of soils treated by MICP.

Si-Da WU / PhD Student - PolyU

Research interests: 1) Finite Element Modeling of Marine Structure; 2) Application of Artificial Intelligence in Engineering.

Sheng XU / PhD Student - PolyU

Research interests: 1) Limit analysis; 2) Shallow foundation; 3) Deep learning method in geotechnical engineering.

Xuan-Qi LIU / PhD Student - PolyU

Research interests: 1)Artificial intelligence in geotechnical engineering; 2)Physics-informed neural network; 3)Suffusion rule in granular soils.

Shu-Ye ZHANG / PhD Student - PolyU

Research interests: 1) Coastal engineering; 2) CFD-DEM coupling method and VoF-DEM coupling method; 3) Sediment transportation model; 4) Multi-scale and multi-phase modeling on local scour around suction bucket foundation.

Guo-Yao LI / PhD Student - PolyU

Research interests: 1) Cavity expansion-contraction thoery and in-situ tests; 2) Data-driven constitutive modeling; 3) computational mechanics.

Yue YU / PhD Student - PolyU

Research interests: Finite element modeling of shield tunneling.

Wen-Jing LI / PhD Student - PolyU

Research interests: 1) FEM of Marine Structure; 2) Interaction of Pontoon-Mooring-Seabed for Floating Structure.

Yuan-Yi QIU / PhD Student - PolyU

Research interests: 1) MPM simulation in coupled hydromechanical problems; 2) Coupled SPH-FEM modeling of soil-structure interaction; 3) Coupled CFD-DEM simulation of internal erosion in Calcareous sands.