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People

· Group Leader ·

Prof. Kenichi Soga
The Donald H. McLaughlin Chair in Mineral Engineering
Chancellor’s Professor
Bakar Fellow
Faculty Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

· Researchers ·

Dr. Gersena Banushi

Associate Specialist
Infrastructure Simulation

Dr. Bodhinanda Chandra

Visiting Researcher
Comp. Mechanics, MPM

Dr. Guodong Chen

Post-Doctoral Researcher
Subsurface Fluid Flow, AI

Dr. Jingxiao Liu

Post-Doctoral Researcher
Smart Infrastructure

Dr. Linqing Luo

Visiting Researcher
Distributed Fiber Optic Sensor

Dr. Nori Nakata

Staff Scientist
Subsurface Dynamics, AI

Dr. Yuanjie Shen

Post-Doctoral Researcher
Wireless Sensor, Structure Monitoring

Dr. Gyubeom Shin

Post-Doctoral Researcher
Soil-Structure Interaction, DFOS

Dr. Chien-Chih Wang

Post-Doctoral Researcher
Wireless Sensor, DFOS

Dr. Yaobin Yang

Post-Doctoral Researcher
Distributed Fiber Optic Sensor, FEM

Dr. Bingyu Zhao

Visiting Researcher
City-scale modeling and simulations

Won Young Park

Research Affiliate
Techno-Economic Analysis

· Graduate Students ·

Temitope Adebanjo

PhD Student
Tunneling, ML

Aaron Agudelo

PhD Student
Sensing

Shih-Hung Chiu

PhD Candidate
Distributed Fiber Optic Sensor

Chuao Dong

PhD Candidate
Distributed Fiber Optic Sensor

Connor Geudeker

PhD Student
MPM

Tianyu Han

PhD Candidate
City-scale modeling, Disaster Resilience

Maksymilian Jasiak

PhD Student
Distributed Fiber Optic Sensor

Pengshun Li

PhD Candidate
City-scale modeling and simulations

Paola Lorusso

PhD Student
Wildfire and evacuation modeling

John W. Murphy

PhD Candidate
MPM, Erosion, Levees

Yan Wu

PhD Student
Distributed Fiber Optic Sensor

Yanglan Wang

PhD Candidate
Traffic simulation, Disaster Resilience 

Jiahui Yang

PhD Candidate
Distributed Fiber Optic Sensor

Viet Khuyen Bui

Visiting PhD Student
MPM

· Past Members·

Lab Graduates

University of California, Berkeley
  1. Dr. Ezra Yoanes Setiasabda (Tjung) (2020) – Material Point Method for large deformation modeling in geomechanics using isoparametric elements
  2. Dr. Millard McElwee (2021) – Towards resilience with simulations for accessing recovery of critical infrastructure systems from natural hazard damage
  3. Dr. Rounan Ou (2022) – Fracture monitoring and dynamic traffic tracking using distributed fiber optic sensing (DFOS) technology
  4. Dr. Renjie Wu (2022) – Resilience Analysis for Water Distribution Networks
  5. Dr. Peter Hubbard (2022) – Monitoring Distributed, Dynamic Strain in Civil Infrastructure using Phase-Sensitive Optical Time-Domain Reflectometry
  6. Dr. Andrew Yeskoo (2022) – Distributed Fiber Optic Sensing for Deep Foundation and Soil Vertical Strain Monitoring
  7. Dr. Zhenxiang Su (2022) – Three-dimensional hydraulic fracturing simulation in heterogeneous materials using Lattice Element Method
  8. Dr. Dayu Apoji (2023) – Developing AI Systems for EPB TBM Utilizing Sensing Data and Machine Learning
  9. Dr. Bodhinanda Chandra (2024) – Stabilized Material Point Method for Hydro-Mechanical Coupled Problems in Geomechanics
  10. Dr. Joel Given (2024) – Advancements in soil constitutive modeling and the material point method for wellbore breakout prediction
  11. Dr. Kecheng Chen (2024) – Shallow geothermal potential assessment for district heating and cooling
  12. Dr. Yaobin Yang (2024) – Discontinuous Galerkin Finite Element Analysis and Experimental Sensors Innovations for Unsaturated Soil
  13. Dr. Michael Virtucio (2025) – Seismic Resilience of Regional Transportation Systems: Modeling Robustness and Rapidity
  14. Dr. Lauren Talbot (2025) – Geo-Interface Modeling in The Material Point Method
  15. Dr. Jaewon Saw (2025) – Listening with Light: Distributed Acoustic Sensing for Event Detection, Characterization, and Classification
  16. Dr. Tianchen Xu (2025) – Analysis of Distributed Strain in Gas Infrastructure Subjected to Operational and Geohazard Conditions
University of Cambridge
  1. Dr. L.J. Potter (1996) – Contaminant migration through consolidating soils (co-supervisor)
  2. Dr. C. Kechavarzi (2001) – Physical modelling of immiscible multiphase flow porous media
  3. Dr. S.K.A. Au (2001) – Fundamental study of compensation grouting in clay
  4. Dr. H. Coumoulos (2002) – Centrifuge and numerical modelling of dense non-aqueous phase contaminants migration
  5. Dr. S. Yimsiri (2002) – Pre-failure deformation characteristics of soils: anisotropy and soil fabric
  6. Dr. S. Ratnam (2002) – Development of a novel self-boring permeability measurement technique
  7. Dr. E.T. Bowman (2002) – Creep and ageing of dense granular materials
  8. Dr. W.A. Waduge (2004) – Evaluation of efficiency of air sparging in NAPL contaminated heterogeneous system
  9. Dr. I. Kulasooriya (2005) – Remediation of dense non-aqueous phase liquids using surfactant flushing; Mass flux approach
  10. Dr. J.W.E. Page (2005) – A mass flux and partitioning tracer concept for DNAPL source zone characterisation
  11. Dr. T.E.B. Vorster (2005) – The effects of tunnelling on buried pipes (Co-supervisor)
  12. Dr. J. Wongsaroj (2006) – Three-dimensional finite element analysis of short and long-term ground response to open face tunnelling in stiff clay
  13. Dr. T.P. Cheong (2006) – Numerical modeling of soil-pipeline interaction
  14. Dr. H. Ji (2008) – Physical modeling of jet grouting processes
  15. Dr. K. Gafar (2008) – Compensation Grouting in Sand
  16. Dr. M.Y.A. Ng (2008) – Modelling hydraulic fracturing in cement bentonite geomaterials
  17. Dr. H. Mohamad (2008) – Distributed optical fibre strain sensing of geotechnical structures
  18. Dr. P. Nikolopoulos (2008) – Non-aqueous phase liquid pollutant in natural soils and its long-term risk after remediation
  19. Dr. K. Joshi (2009) – Long-term Engineering Performance and In-Situ Assessment of Cement-Bentonite Cut-off Walls
  20. Dr. A.Y. Leung (2010) – Foundation optimization and its application to pile reuse
  21. Dr. D. Robert (2010) – Soil-pipeline interaction in unsaturated soils
  22. Dr. R. Laver (2010) – Long-term behaviour of twin-tunnels in London Clay
  23. Dr. L. Liu (2011) – Disturbance analysis of the self boring pressuremeter tests
  24. Dr. A. Al Qabany (2011) – Microbial carbonate precipitation in soils
  25. Dr. K. Chaiyasarn (2011) – Detection and monitoring of damage for tunnel inspection based on computer vision
  26. Dr. C.S. Gue (2012) – Submarine landslide flows simulation through centrifuge modelling
  27. Dr. L. Hughes (2012) – Effects of alignment on CO2 emissions from the construction and use phases of a highway (co-supervisor)
  28. Dr. K. Ellison (2012) – Constitutive modelling of a heavily overconsolidated clay
  29. Dr. S. Uchida (2012) – Numerical investigation of geomechanical behaviour of hydrate-bearing sediments
  30. Dr. S. Bandara (2013) – Material point method to simulate large deformation problems in fluid-saturated granular medium
  31. Dr. D. Garber (2013) – Ground source heat pump system models in an integrated building and ground energy simulation environment
  32. Dr. Y. Ouyang (2013) – Geotechnical behaviour of energy piles
  33. Dr. T. Schwamb (2014) – Performance monitoring and numerical modelling of a deep circular excavation
  34. Dr. Z. Li (2014) – Long-term behaviour of cast-iron tunnel cross passage in London clay
  35. Dr. K. Kumar (2014) – Multi-scale multiphase modelling of granular flows
  36. Dr. E. Xu (2014) – Numerical analysis of wellbore behaviour during methane gas recovery from hydrate bearing sediments
  37. Dr. Y. Rui (2014) – Finite element modelling of thermal piles and walls
  38. Dr. O. Dawoud (2015) – The applicability of microbially induced calcite precipitation (MICP) for soil treatment
  39. Dr. Y. Zheng (2015) – Application potential of shallow geothermal energy at city scale
  40. Dr. M. Zhou (2015) – Geomechanical study of hydrate-bearing sediments with turbidite formation and hydrate heterogeneity
  41. Dr. Q. He (2015) – Thermal performance of energy geotechnical structures
  42. Dr. N. Jiang (2016) – Microbially induced calcite precipitation for the mitigation of soil internal erosion and sand production
  43. Dr. J. Fern (2016) – Constitutive modelling of unsaturated sand and its application to large deformation modelling
  44. Dr. M. Alhaddad (2016) – Photogrammetric monitoring of cast iron tunnels and applicability of empirical methods for damage
  45. Dr. M. Wilcock (2016) – The behaviour of existing segmental cast iron tunnel linings subject to ground movement from new tunnelling
  46. Dr. Y. Yu (2016) – Signal processing of Brillouin distributed optical fibre sensors
  47. Dr. J. Wong (2017) – Three-dimensional multi-scale hydraulic fracturing simulation in heterogeneous material using Dual Lattice Model
  48. Dr. L. Luo (2017) – Time-frequency localisation of distributed Brillouin optical time domain reflectometry
  49. Dr. S. Kularathna (2017) – Splitting solution scheme for material point method
  50. Dr. A. Murphy (2018) – Sediment heterogeneity and sand production in gas hydrate extraction
  51. Dr. Y. Mei (2018) – Error analysis for distributed fibre optic sensing technology based on Brillouin scattering
  52. Dr. G. Casey (2019) – Investigating the performance of transport infrastructure using real-time data and a scalable multi-modal agent based model (co-supervisor)
  53. Dr. H. Mallikarachchi (2019) – Constitutive modelling of shear localisation in saturated dilative sand
  54. Dr. B. Zhao (2019) – Simulating transportation system sustainability at city-scale with open data informed mesoscopic traffic and pavement degradation models for San Francisco
  55. Dr. V. Di Murro (2019) – Long-term performance of a concrete-lined tunnel at CERN
  56. Dr. Y. Wang (2019) – Microbial-Induced Calcium Carbonate Precipitation: from Micro to Macro Scale
  57. Dr. H. Luo (2019) – Numerical investigation of hydrate-bearing sediment formation heterogeneity during methane gas recovery
  58. Dr. T. Sasaki (2019) – Fibre optic monitoring and finite element analysis of well integrity in methane hydrate reservoirs (Co-supervisor)
  59. Dr. X. Lu (2019) – An engineering analysis method for deep geothermal energy
  60. Dr. B. Li (2021) – Dynamic strain measurement using Brillouin optical time-domain reflectometry
  61. Dr. T. Feng (2024) – Network Problem Diagnosis and Status Assessment for Wireless Sensor Network in Civil Infrastructure Monitoring

Post-doctoral Researchers

University of California, Berkeley
  1. Dr. Tzu-Hsuan Lin, 10/16–9/17 – Wireless Sensor Network
  2. Dr. James Fern, 3/17–8/18 – Landslide simulation using Material Point Method
  3. Dr. Amr Ewais, 3/17–2/19 – Distributed fiber optics sensing, Graphene
  4. Dr. Jinho Park, 9/17–12/19 – Geophysics for tunnel monitoring
  5. Dr. Xiang Sun, 9/17–11/20 – Gas hydrate modeling, thermo-hydro modeling
  6. Dr. Shyamini Kularathna, 6/18–9/21 – Material Point Method
  1. Dr. Bingyu Zhao, 6/19–2/22 – City-scale modeling and simulations
  2. Dr. Yong Liang, 1/20–1/23 – Material Point Method
  3. Dr. Sumeet Sinha, 4/22–4/23 – Distributed fiber optic sensing
  4. Dr. Saemi Chang, 5/22–5/23 – Wildfire evacuation
  5. Dr. Won-jun C., 8/22–8/23 – Infrastructure sensing
  6. Dr. Seunghyun Lee, 2/23–9/24 – Disaster resilience
University of Cambridge
  1. Dr. M.F. Bransby, 1/96–6/96 – Effect of pore fluid viscosity on stiffness and damping of sands
  2. Dr. E. Ellis, 1/97–6/97 – Effect of pore fluid viscosity on liquefaction of sands
  3. Dr. G.R. Dasari, 4/97–3/00 – Numerical implementation of advanced soil models into ABAQUS and modelling of soil-pipeline interaction problems
  4. Dr. M.W. Gui, 10/97–9/99 – Development of instrumented drilling system
  5. Dr. K. Komiya, 5/98–3/99 – Development of finite element program to simulate shield tunnelling process
  6. Dr. S. Gourvenec, 4/98–3/00 – Investigation of soil condition around an old London Underground tunnel (co-supervisor)
  7. Dr. B.C. Hawlader, 11/98–9/00 – Development of hollow cylinder torsional shear system and constitutive modelling of natural soils
  8. Dr. M.R. Jafari, 9/98–1/01 – Experimental investigation of compensation grouting
  9. Dr. C. Kechavarzi, 3/01–9/01, 3/03–9/04 – Soil testing using a hollow cylinder torsional shear apparatus
  10. Dr. S. Ratnam, 6/02–11/02 – Assessment and monitoring of ageing infrastructure
  11. Dr. E.T. Bowman, 7/02–8/05 – Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellow, Debris flows
  12. Dr. S.W. Jacobsz, 5/03–9/03 – Development of wireless sensor network system to monitor tunnel deformation
  13. Dr. A. Spasojevic, 4/03–5/05 – Numerical modelling of soil liquefaction
  14. Dr. P. Bennett, 4/04–9/09 – Fibre optic strain measurements
  15. Dr. A. Klar, 4/05–3/06 – Gashydrate modelling
  16. Dr. J. Ransley, 10/06–9/07 – Micro-Electro-Mechanical Sensors and Power Harvesting
  17. Dr. Binod Amatya, 12/06–5/09 – Smart Foundations
  1. Dr. Jize Yan, 3/08–12/15 – Micro-Electro-Mechanical Sensors and Power Harvesting
  2. Dr. Dedy Loebis, 7/07–12/08 – Power harvesting
  3. Dr. Guoliang Ye, 3/09–3/11 – Power harvesting
  4. Dr. Mohammed Elshafie, 7/09–7/11 – Fibre optics monitoring
  5. Dr. Sarfraz Nawaz, 1/12–10/15 – Cambridge Centre for Smart Infrastructure and Construction
  6. Dr. Loizos Pelecanos, 1/13–7/16 – Cambridge Centre for Smart Infrastructure and Construction
  7. Dr. Seda Torisu, 6/10–5/13 – Crossrail KTP
  8. Mr. Mohamad Alserdare, 8/11–7/13 – Crossrail KTP
  9. Dr. Cedric Kechvarzi, 1/13–present – Cambridge Centre for Smart Infrastructure and Construction
  10. Dr. Alex Rohe, 4/13–3/14, 10/15–12/15 – MPM Dredge Project
  11. Dr. Xiaomin Xu, 3/13–present – Cambridge Centre for Smart Infrastructure and Construction
  12. Dr. Joost Breedeveld, 2/14–5/14 – MPM Dredge Project
  13. Dr. Yunfeng Gu, 2/14–2/15 – WSN for gas monitoring
  14. Dr. David Rodenas, 2/14–8/18 – Cambridge Centre for Smart Infrastructure and Construction
  15. Dr. Varindra Kumar, 10/14–4/16 – WSN hardware development
  16. Dr. Sinan Acikgoz, 10/14–5/18 – London Bridge station project
  17. Dr. Krishna Kumar, 4/14–present – CSIC & BG project
  18. Dr. Yi Rui, 6/14–present – CSIC
  19. Dr. Bruno Zuada Coelho, 10/15–12/15 – MPM Dredge Project
  20. Dr. Alba Yerro, 11/15–6/17 – MPM Dredge Project

Visiting Researchers

University of California, Berkeley

  
  1. Guido Andreotti (University of Pavia), 9/16–12/16
  2. Tian You (Tsinghua University), 2/16–2/17
  3. Xiaorong Xu (Tsinghua University), 11/16–11/17
  4. Prof. Xinnan Gao (Nanjing Agricultural University), 2/17–1/18
  5. Mo Li (Jilin University), 8/17–2/18
  6. Xingyue Li (HKUST), 9/17–2/18
  7. Nicola Cardella (Università Politecnica delle Marche), 9/17–3/18
  8. Alberto Annichini (Politecnico di Torino), 1/18–5/18
  9. Silvio Sordo (Politecnico di Torino), 1/18–5/18
  10. Hao Luo (University of Cambridge), 12/16–10/18
  11. Kazuhiro Mukai (Takenaka Corporation), 2/18–12/19
  12. Zhuofu Tao (Tsinghua University), 9/18–9/19
  13. Tianran Han (Southeast University), 11/18–10/19
  14. Tianchi Zhao (Tongji University), 12/18–12/20
  15. Prof. Honghui Wang (Chengdu Univ. of Technology), 12/18–11/19
  16. Yuji Fujita (Enzan Kobou Co.), 1/19–12/19
  17. Hayato Nonaka (Kajima Corporation), 2/19–1/21
  18. Hiroshi Kogi (Shimizu Corporation), 8/19–5/20, 2/21–8/21
  19. Prof. ZhiQiang Chen (University of Missouri Kansas City), 8/19–12/19
  20. Federica Mevoli (University of Bath), 8/19–12/19
  21. Prof. Hideo Sekiya (Tokyo City University), 9/19–11/19
  22. Zhichao Zhang (Chongqing University), 10/19–9/20
  23. Mengyan Jiang (Tsinghua Berkeley Shenzhen Institute), 10/19–10/20
  24. Yanglan Wang (Tsinghua Berkeley Shenzhen Institute), 11/19–7/20
  1. Paola Lorusso (Politecnico di Torino), 1/20–7/20
  2. Bingbing Chen (Dalian University of Technology), 1/20–12/20
  3. Prof. Ken Kamrin (MIT), 1/20–5/20
  4. Yang Xu (Harbin Institute of Technology), 11/17–11/18
  5. Prof. Jin Luo (China University of Geosciences, Wuhan), 11/17–11/18
  6. Chengcheng Zhang (Nanjing University), 1/18–12/18
  7. Miki Komatsu (Kobe University), 9/17–2/19
  8. Vanessa Di Murro (University of Cambridge), 3/18–3/19
  9. Prof. M. Azizul Moqsud (Yamaguchi University), 4/18–3/19
  10. Prof. Tissa Illangasekare (Colorado School of Mines), 2/19–5/19
  11. Prof. Zheng Hao (Hokkaido University), 2/19–5/19
  12. Prof. Zijun Cao (Wuhan University), 6/18–6/19
  13. Chiara Ecosse (Politecnico di Torino), 1/19–6/19
  14. Miguel Molinos (Polytechnic University of Madrid), 3/21–8/21
  15. Prof. Ryota Hashimoto (Hiroshima University), 6/21–3/22
  16. Qinglai Emily Zhang (University of Cork), 1/22–3/23
  17. Yoko Ohta (Kobe University), 7/22–12/22
  18. Jun Kurima (Kyoto University), 1/23–3/23
  19. Yuya Nakashima (Fuji Electric), 8/23–8/25
  20. Florian Barth (KIT, Germany), 8/24–11/24
  21. Koki Ando (JR Central), 7/24–present
  22. Jidu Yu (HKUST), 11/24–present
  23. Rui “Terry” Tao (Norwegian University of Science and Technology), 1/25–present
  24. Julia Demarchi (Politecnico di Torino), 4/25–present

University of Cambridge
  1. Dr. N. Komiya (Waseda University, Japan), 5/98–3/99
  2. Dr. S. Shu (Jilin University, China), 10/98–9/99
  3. Dr. I. Kobayashi (Tokyo Institute of Technology), 5/99–3/00
  4. Dr. J. Kawabata (Kajima Corporation, Japan), 5/99–6/00
  5. Dr. S. Karim (University of Twentee, Netherlands), 6/99–8/99
  6. M. Kobayashi (Tokyo Gas, Japan), 11/99–12/99
  7. Prof. K. Okada (Kokushikan University, Japan), 4/00–8/00
  8. Dr. T. Hori (National Institute for Rural Engineering, Japan), 3/02 & 10/02
  9. Dr. A.C. Mesquita (Federal Univ. of Rio de Janeiro COPPE, Brazil), 4/02–3/03
  10. Prof. A. Klar (Technion Israel Institute of Technology), 7/03–3/05
  11. Prof. S. Burns (University of Virginia), 10/03–12/03
  12. M. Buono Mascagni (Politecnico di Torino), 9/04–11/04
  13. S. Giardino (Politecnico di Torino), 9/04–10/04
  14. Prof. David Zheng (Tienjin University), 10/04–9/05
  15. Dr. Fuminao Okumura (Japan Railway Technical Research Institute), 10/05–5/06
  16. Mohammad Norouz-Oliaei (Sharif University of Technology), 10/05–8/06
  17. Prof. Toru Inui (Kyoto University), 5/06–3/07
  18. Chikara Hirai (Japan Railway Technical Research Institute), 9/06–8/07
  19. Prof. Taro Uchimura (University of Tokyo), 10/06–9/07
  20. Prof. Andrew Whittle (MIT), 1/07–7/07
  21. Prof. Carlos Santamarina (Georgia Tech), 7/07
  22. Dr. Yusuke Kobayashi (Japan Railway Technical Research Institute), 9/07–9/08
  23. Dr. Wan Zuhairi Wan Yaacob (Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia), 9/07–12/07
  24. Keita Abe (Japan Railway Technical Research Institute), 9/08–9/09
  25. Prof. Kerop Janoyan (Clarkson University), 2/09–7/09
  26. Prof. Masafumi Okawara (Iwate University), 10/08–3/09
  27. Prof. Motohei Kanayama (Kyushu University), 7/08–8/08, 2/09–3/09, 8/09–9/09
  28. Prof. Shinya Nakamura (Ryukyu University), 2/09–3/09
  29. Luca Masini (University of Rome), 7/08–8/08, 1/09–4/09
  30. Prof. Xiaojun Li (Tongji University), 8/09
  31. Akio Hada (Japan Railway Technical Research Institute), 9/09–9/10
  32. Prof. Liyuan Tong (Southeast University), 9/09–9/10
  33. Eric Diao (Tienjin University), 9/09–8/10
  34. Prof. Katsuya Okada (Kokushikan University), 4/10–9/10
  35. Dr. Kiwamu Tsuno (Japan Railway Technical Research Institute), 9/10–9/11
  36. Fei Wang (Tongji University), 10/10–9/11
  1. Prof. Fuxue Sun (Wenzhou University), 10/11–9/12
  2. Prof. Jun Jiang (Zhejiang University), 10/11–9/12
  3. Xia Bian (Southeast University), 2/12–1/13
  4. Xuesong Cheng (Tianjin University), 10/12–9/13
  5. Satoko Ryuo (Japan Railway Technical Research Institute), 9/11–9/12
  6. Dr. Yoshiharu Asaka (Shimizu Corporation), 10/11–9/12
  7. Jiajie Ma (University of Western Australia), 2/12–5/12
  8. Prof. Jeff Evans (Bucknell University), 10/12–3/13
  9. Dr. Xiaomin Xu (UCL/Zhejiang University), 5/12–5/13
  10. Kyosuke Yasuda (Japan Patent Agency), 7/12–6/13
  11. Dr. Tsukasa Mizutani (University of Tokyo), 7/12–8/12
  12. Prof. Bin He (Tongji University), 6/12–9/12
  13. Prof. Kohei Araki (Kyushu University), 10/12–12/12
  14. Dr. Tatsuya Nihei (Japan Railway Technical Research Institute), 9/12–9/13
  15. Prof. Fei Yi (Chang’an University), 10/12–9/13
  16. Prof. Dan Zhang (Nanjing University), 3/13–2/14
  17. Koshiro Saito (Japan Patent Agency), 7/13–6/14
  18. Dr. Munenori Shibata (Japan Railway Technical Research Institute), 9/13–9/14
  19. Prof. Cheol Ju Lee (Kangwon National University), 10/13–9/14
  20. Dr. Jaeyeon Cho (Yonsei University), 4/14–3/15
  21. Prof. Young Seok Kim (KICT), 6/14–5/15
  22. Prof. Hong-Hu Zhu (Nanjing University), 10/14–9/15
  23. Prof. Tom O’Rourke (Cornell University), 10/14–12/14
  24. Chuanhu Zhang (Tsinghua University), 11/14–11/15
  25. Dr. Jimeng Feng (Southwest Jiaotong University), 2/15–1/16
  26. Yuelang Jin (Tongji University), 3/15–2/16
  27. Dr. Seiji Yamada (Japan Railway Technical Research Institute), 2/15–8/15
  28. Olga Mikhaylova (University of Melbourne), 10/15–2/16
  29. Xiang Sun (Dalian Institute of Technology), 11/15–4/16
  30. Yishu Wang (Hohai University), 11/15–10/16
  31. Caijie Tang (BIACD), 11/15–12/15
  32. Haizuo Zhou (Tianjin University), 11/15–10/16
  33. Prof. Chao-Sheng Tang (Nanjing University), 12/15–11/16
  34. Prof. Jason DeJong (UC Davis), 1/16–6/16
  35. Prof. Kazuyuki Hayashi (Wakayama College), 4/16–9/16