Speaker

Prof. Zhenyu Yin

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HK, China

Biography:

Zhenyu Yin, Professor, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Prof. Yin received his Bachelor's Degree in Architectural Engineering from Zhejiang University in 1997, and then worked in Zhejiang Jiahua Architectural Design Co., Ltd. for 5 years. He received his Master's Degree and Ph.D. Degree in Geotechnical Engineering from Ecole Centrale Polytechnique de Nantes, France, in 2003 and 2006, respectively (with a joint training program at Tongji University during his Ph.D. period). He was selected as one of the "Oriental Scholars" by Shanghai Municipality in 2011. He is also an associate editor of European Journal of Environment and Civil Engineering (EJECE), Geotechnique Letters, ASCE-IJOM, and an associate editor of Canadian Geotechnical Engineering (Can. Geot. J.), Acta Geotechnica, Transportation Geotechnics, Computers and Geotechnics, GeoRisk, IJNAMG and other journals editorial board; mainly engaged in teaching and research in geotechnics and geotechnical engineering, in recent years, he has published more than 300 SCI papers in international core journals. Prof. Zhenyu Yin's main research interests include: (1) macro and micro properties of soils and constitutive relationships; (2) model testing and numerical analysis of large deformations in geotechnical engineering; (3) application of artificial intelligence in geotechnical engineering.