People

Here are the people I am working or worked with.

Current Research Associates/Fellows

• Dr Jize Yan - MEMS and Smart Foundations
• Dr Guoliang Ye - Fibre-optics sensing amd power Harvesting for Infrastructure Monitoring
• Dr Mohammed Elshafie - Field monitoring for Crossrail project

Current PhD/MPhil students

• Koson Janmonta -PhD - Slope monitoring using fibre optic strain measurement system
• Leo Liu -PhD - Drilling perfomance of self-boring pressuremeter (with Mr Clive Dalton of Cambridge Insitu)
• Chris Chau -PhD - Embodied energy of geotechnical infrastructure (with Dr Nick O'Riordan and Mr Duncan Nicholson of Arup)
• Chang Shin Gue -PhD - Centrifuge modelling of submarine landslides
• Tricia Lee -PhD - Numerical modelling of methane hydrate soil problems
• Shun Uchida - PhD - Geomechanical modelling of methane hydrate production (with Dr Assaf Klar of Technion)
• Juan Brugada - PhD - Mechanical behaviour of methane hydrate soils (with Dr Helen Cheng of UCL)
• Rich Laver - PhD - Long-term behaviour of twin-tunnels in London Clay
• Krisada Chaiyasarn - PhD - Computer vision for tunnel inspection (with Prof. Roberto Cipolla)
• Ahmed Al Qabany - PhD - Soil-Bio interaction and engineering
• Kirk Ellison - PhD - Constitutive mdoelling of London Clay (with Dr Brian Simpson and Dr Hoe-Chian Yeow of Arup)
• Samila Bandara - PhD - Meshless methods for modelling soil fludisation problems
• Lynsay Hughes - PhD - Life cycle assessment of highway roads (with Prof. Peter Guthrie)
• Takaaki Kobayashi - PhD - Submarine landslides (with Dr Stuart Haigh)
• Echo Ouyang - PhD - Energy foundations
• Tina Schwamb - PhD - Behavior of large diameter shafts in London
• Ray Yi - PhD - Numerical modelling of geothermal systems
• Zili Li - PhD - Monitoring and modelling of London Underground tunnels
• Denis Garber - PhD - Ground source heat pump systems
• Edison Xu - PhD - Wellbore stability during methane hydrate gas production
• Krishna Kumar - PhD - Soil fluidisation modelling

Current Visiting Research Fellows

• Dr Kiwamu Tsuno - Railway Technical Research Institute, Japan
• Fei Wang - Tongji University, China

Former PhD/MPhil students

• Andy Leung (2010) (PhD, AECOM) Foundation Optimisation and its Application to Pile Reuse
• Dilan Robert (2010) (PhD, KW Ltd) Soil-Pipeline Interaction in Unsaturated Soils
• Wilson Au (2010) (MPhil) Compensation grouting in silty soils
• Kaushal Joshi (2009) (PhD, Shell) Long-term performance of contaminant containment systems
• Panos Nikolopoulos (2009) (PhD, Greek Miltary Service) Non-aqueous phase liquid pollutant in natural soils and its long-term risk after remediation
• Hisham Mohamad (2008) (PhD, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia) Distributed optical fibre strain sensing of geotechnical structures
• M.Y. Albert Ng (2008) (PhD, JPMorgan) Modelling hydraulic fracturing in cement bentonite geomaterials
• Khalid Eisa (2008) (PhD, Atkins) Compensation grouting in sands
• Heng Ji (2008) (PhD, AECOM) Physical modeling of jet grouting processes
• Piau Cheong (2006) (PhD, Atkins) - Numerical modelling of soil-pipeline interaction
• Ming Wongsaroj (2006) (PhD, GCG) - Three dimensional finite element analysis of short and long-term ground response to open face tunnelling in soft clay
• Eduard Vorster (2005) (PhD, Africon, South Africa) The Effects of tunnelling on buried pipes (Co-supervisor)
• John W.E. Page (2005) (PhD, RPS) A mass flux and partitioning tracer concept for DNAPL source zone characterisation
• Indu Kulasooriya (2005) (PhD, Environment Agency) Remediation of Dense Non-aqueous phase liquids using surfactant flushing; Mass flux approach
• W. Anil Waduge (2004) (PhD, Arcadis) Evaluation of efficiency of air sparging in NAPL contaminated heterogeneous system
• Mei T. Cheong (2003) (MPhil, Arup) Influence of underground excavation on compensation grouting in soft clay
• Elisabeth T. Bowman (2002) (PhD, University of Canterbury, New Zealand) Creep and ageing of dense granular materials
• Sang Ratnam (2002) (PhD,Total) Development of a novel self-boring permeability measurement technique
• Siam Yimsiri (2002) (PhD, Burapha University, Thailand) Pre-failure deformation characteristics of soils: anisotropy and soil fabric.
• Helena Coumoulos (2002) (PhD, Castor Ltd, Greece) Centrifuge and numerical modelling of dense non-aqueous phase contaminants migration
• S.K.Alfred Au (2001) (PhD, Benaim Ltd, Hong Kong) Fundamental study of compensation grouting in clay
• Cedric Kechavarzi (2001) (PhD, Cranfield University) Physical modelling of immiscible multiphase flow porous media
• Lara J. Potter (1996) (PhD, Arcadis) Contaminant migration through consolidating soils (Co-supervisor)

Former Research Associates/Fellows

• Neil Hoult (Academic, Queens University, Canada) - wireless sensor network
• Peter Bennett - Fibre optics distributed strain measurements, wireless sensor network
• Binod Amatya (Industry, Halcrow) - Fibre optics distributed strain measurements, Energy foundations
• Dedy Loebis (Industry) - Power harvesting
• James Ransley (Industry) - Micro Electro Mechanical Sensors
• Gary Choy (Industry, GCG) - Micro Electro Mechanical Sensors
• Assaf Klar (Academic, Technion Israel Institute of Technology), Gashydrate modelling
• Aleksandar Spasojevic (Industry, Gifford Services ltd.), co-supervisor, Numerical modelling of soil liquefaction
• S.W. Jacobsz (Academic, University of Pretoria, South Africa), co-supervisor, Development of wireless sensor network system to monitor tunnel deformation
• Elisabeth T. Bowman (Academic, University of Canterbury, New Zealand), Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellow, Debris flows
• Sang Ratnam (Industry, Total) Assessment and monitoring of ageing infrastructure
• Cedric Kechavarzi (Academic, Cranfield University) Soil testing using a hollow cylinder torsional shear apparatus
• M. Reza Jafari (Industry, CDM, USA) Experimental investigation of compensation grouting
• Bipul C. Hawlader (Academic, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada), Development of hollow cylinder torsional shear system and constitutive modelling of natural soils
• Susan Gourvenec (Academic, University of Western Australia), co-supervisor, Investigation of soil condition around an old London Underground tunnel
• Kazuhito Komiya (Academic, Chiba Institute of Technology, Japan), Development of finite element program to simulate shield tunnelling process
• M.W. Gui (Academic, National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan), Development of instrumented drilling system
• Ganesh R. Dasari (Industry, Exxon Mobile, USA), Numerical implementation of advanced soil models into ABAQUS and modelling of soil-pipeline interaction problems
• Ed Ellis (Academic, University of Portsmouth), Effect of pore fluid viscosity on liquefaction of sands
• M. Fraser Bransby (Acadmic, University of Dundee), Effect of pore fluid viscosity on stiffness and damping of sands

Former Academic Visitors

• Akio Hada (Japan Railway Technical Research Institute), 09/09-09/10
• Eric Diao (Tienjin University), 10/09-10/10
• Prof. Katsuya Okada (Kokushikan University), 3/10-9/10
• Dr Farhang Radjai (Universite de Montpellier II) 8/10
• Dr Jean-Yves Delenne (Universite de Montpellier II) 8/10
• Dr Richard Fragaszy (US National Science Foundation), 12/09-2/10
• Prof. Xiaojun Li (Tongji University), 08/09
• Prof. Motohei Kanayama (Kyushu University), 07/08-08/08, 02/09 - 03/09, 08/09-09/09
• Prof. Masafumi Okawara (Iwate University), 10/08 - 03/09
• Prof. Kerop Janoyan (Clarkson University), 02/09 - 07/09
• Keita Abe (Japan Railway Technical Research Institute), 09/08-09/09
• Prof. Wan Zuhairi Wan Yaacob (Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia), 09/07-12/07
• Dr Yusuke Kobayashi (Japan Railway Technical Research Institute), 09/07-09/08
• Prof. Carlos Santamarina (Georgia Tech), 07/07
• Prof. Andrew Whittle (MIT), 01/07-07/07
• Prof. Taro Uchimura (University of Tokyo), 10/06-09/07
• Dr Chikara Hirai (Japan Railway Technical Research Institute), 09/06-08/07
• Prof. Toru Inui (Kyoto University), 05/06-03/07
• Dr Mohammad Norouz-Oliaei (Sharif University of Technology), 10/05-08/06
• Dr Fuminao Okumura (Japan Railway Technical Research Institute), 10/05-05/06
• Prof. Gang David Zheng (Tienjin University), 10/04-9/05
• Prof. Susan Burns (University of Virginia), 10/03-12/03
• Dr. Assaf Klar (Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Israel), 7/03 - 3/05
• Dr. Ana-Carla Mesquita (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro COPPE, Brazil), 4/02-3/03
• Dr T. Hori (National Institute for Rural Engineering, Japan), 3/02&10/02
• Prof. Katsuya Okada (Kokushikan University, Japan), 4/00-8/00
• Mio Kobayashi (Tokyo Gas, Japan), 11/99-12/99
• Prof. S. Karim (University of Twentee, the Netherlands), 6/99-8/99
• Dr. Junichi Kawabata (Kajima Corporation, Japan), 5/99 - 6/00
• Dr. Ichizo Kobayashi (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan), 5/99-3/00
• Dr. S. Shu (Jilin University, China), 10/98-9/99
• Dr. Noriko Komiya (Waseda University, Japan), 5/98-3/99

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