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Kai LOU / PhD Candidate - PolyU

Research interests: 1) Physical model test on marine reclamation; 2) Influence of different factors (e.g. initial water content, salinity, dip angle) on soil behavior; 3) Numerical modelling of sedimentation and consolidation.

Yu PAN / PhD Candidate - PolyU

Research interests: 1) Physical model; 2) Reclamation related technology, PVD, vacuum preloading.

Lu-Jia YU / PhD Candidate - PolyU

Research interests: 1) Marine geotechnical engineering; 2) PFEM and SPFEM for large deformation analysis in geotechnical engineering; 3) Coupled CFD-DEM-FEM simulation.

Numan MALIK / PhD Candidate - PolyU

Research interests: 1) Offshore Pile Foundations; 2) FRP-reinforced sea water sea-sand concrete (SSC) Piles; 3) Physical modeling in geotechnical engineering.

Chang HE / PhD Candidate - PolyU

Research interests: 1) Finite Volume Community Ocean Model (FVCOM) ; 2) Ocean simulation in coastal area; 3) Sediment and pollutant transport during the dredgging processes.

Jing-Cheng TENG / PhD Candidate - PolyU

Research interests: 1) FRP Sheet-pile wall; 2) Finite element analysis for structural engineering.

Shao-Qun LIN / PhD Student - PolyU

Research interests: 1) Distributed fibre optic sensing application on geotechnical structures; 2) Crack detection using OFDR.

Wang-Qi XU / PhD Student - PolyU

Research interests: Molecular dynamics-based modeling in geotechnical engineering.

Ze-Yu WANG / PhD Student - PolyU

Research interests: Nonlinear finite element analysis in geotechnical engineering.

Shun-Xiang SONG / PhD Student - 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 Student - PolyU

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

Na YANG / PhD Student - PolyU

Research interests: 1) Probabilistic analysis in geotechnical engineering; 2) Constitutive model optimization; 3) Artificial intelligence in geotechnical engineering.

Peng-Lin LI / PhD Student - PolyU

Research interests: 1) Finite strain consolidation theory; 2) Elastic Visco - Plastic (EVP) constitutive model.

Hao-Ran ZHANG / PhD Student - PolyU

Research interests: 1) Pattern recognition and analysis of granular materials based on deep learning and computer vision; 2) Reconstruction of 3D rock aggregate by video tracking of 2D random projections.

Min-Hao ZHANG / PhD Student - 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 Student - PolyU

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

Hai-Lin WANG / PhD Student - 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.

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.

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.

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.