Bodhinanda Chandra

Several members of the Soga Research Group attended ASCE Geo-Institute: Geo-Congress 2023 conference which was happening in Los Angeles from the 26th-29th March 2023. At the conference, Ph.D. student Joel Given and alumnus Dr. Andrew Yeskoo gave a podium presentation, while Ph.D. candidate Bodhinanda Chandra and postdoc Dr. Dayu Apoji presented in the poster sessions. Their presentations and proceedings titles are listed as follows: Given,… Read More »SRG in Geo-Congress 2023

The SRG had our group dinner in Berkeley on Mar 21, 2022. We say goodbye to Jun, a visiting scholar from Kyoto University, who will be leaving our group at the end of the month. 

The first preliminary assessment of the GPR-based mapping tool was conducted at two intersections on Van Buren Avenue, Oakland in December 2022 and January 2023 by CSI and GEO SEARCH. Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) is a technology that can help to visualize underground objects without destructing the surface. The potential use of this technology was discussed and explored.

The SRG group dinner in Berkeley on Dec 09, 2022. We congratulate Yaobin and Kecheng who recently passed their qualifying exam. We also said goodbye to Yoko who will be leaving our group at the end of the month.

Ph.D. Candidate, Dayu Apoji, and Prof. Kenichi Soga recently wrote an article in ASCE GeoStrata magazine entitled “From sensing to machine learning in geoengineering – Building our own AI perspective”. The article discusses some sources of massive data that will come to the geoengineering industry and the importance of machine learning to exploit information and create new value from these data sets. The article also… Read More »Article in GeoStrata’s December 2022/January 2023 issue

Dr. Yong Liang (Postdoctoral researcher), Joel Given (PhD student), and Prof. Kenichi Soga recently published a paper in Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, entitled “The imposition of nonconforming Neumann boundary condition in the material point method without boundary representation” (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cma.2022.115785). The Material Point Method (MPM) is a hybrid Eulerian-Lagrangian numerical method. As a result, nonconforming boundary conditions are common. Previous MPM variations all… Read More »Recently published work on imposition of the Neumann boundary conditions with Virtual Stress Boundary (VSB)

The 6th GeoSystems Engineering Annual Research Symposium was held on Friday, November 18th, 2022. Ph.D. Candidate, Bodhinanda (Nanda) Chandra, of the Soga Research Group, presented his work in a keynote lecture. Nanda showed his research on MPM with the title: “Improving accuracy and efficiency in material point method (MPM) for both single and multi-phase continua”. Besides Nanda, another fourteen members of the Soga Research Group… Read More »The SRG in the 6th Annual GeoSymposium

The SRG’s recent work in fiber optic installation and measurement is featured in an article posted by The Home Energy Efficiency Team (HEET). Members of the SRG, Yaobin and Sumeet, attached a fiber optic cable to the pipes in each borehole to measure temperature. This measured data results in a more accurate understanding of the conductivity of the bedrock to help inform Eversource’s design (Eversource is a business &… Read More »Measuring Temperature with Fiber Optic Cables – the SRG’s recent work in Massachusetts

Prof. Kenichi Soga recently wrote an article in ASCE GeoStrata magazine entitled “Whole Life Sensing for In-service Performance and Life Extension”. The article discusses the importance of monitoring in the long-term resiliency of infrastructure systems and its current challenges. Read more on GeoStrata online page.

John was a speaker at The VI Congreso Internacional de Ingenieria (6th International Congress of Engineering) at the Escuela Militar de Cadetes (ESMIC) General José María Córdova. ESMIC is the military academy of the Colombian Army. The conference was held on 7 October 2022 on the ESMIC campus in Bogota, Colombia. His presentation title was “Modelling Suffusion Internal Erosion with the MPM”. In the presentation,… Read More »John presented to the ESMIC in Bogota, Colombia