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| Apr 25, 2025 | I am honored to receive the 2024-2025 Outstanding GSI Award for my role as a Graduate Student Instructor (GSI) in the graduate course Numerical Modeling in Geomechanics (CE272 Spring 2024), led by Prof. Kenichi Soga. |
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| Mar 20, 2025 | Visited Imperial College London for the 63rd Rankine Lecture given by my doctoral adviser, Prof. Kenichi Soga, on geo-monitoring and geo-adaptation of geotechnical infrastructure. |
| Feb 23, 2025 | Co-organized and presented a presentation at the 9th Berkeley/Stanford CompFest held at UC Berkeley. The talk was about my recent work with Prof. Ken Kamrin on “Incorporating coefficient of restitution in a continuum granular plasticity model”. |
| Feb 7, 2025 | Visited UC Davis to give a talk on “Toward high-fidelity modeling of seismic-induced landslides using the implicit material point method” as part of their Geotechnical Graduate Student Society seminar series. It was a great time to reconnect with old friends, meet new colleagues, and engage with enthusiastic student groups. |
| Jan 25, 2025 | Attended the James K. Mitchell memorial event at UC Berkeley. Heard many great stories of JKM and met many of his former students. |
| Jan 23, 2025 | Through a collaboration with Prof. Jun Kurima from UTokyo, we recently proposed an absorbing boundary strategy in the material point method for co-simulating dynamic wave propagation and large-deformation transient problems. This work was recently published in Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering. |
| Nov 23, 2024 | Presented a poster in Berkeley GeoSymposium 2024 on “Development of stable and accurate MPM solver for climate-change- and seismic-induced landslides”. |
| Sep 27, 2024 | Our paper on coupled Navier-Stokes/Darcy-Brinkman-Forchheimer flow modeling using the Material Point Method (MPM) has been recently published in the Journal of Computational Physics. |
| Sep 12, 2024 | Invited to give a webinar presentation for the Indonesian Civil Engineers’ Society of North America on “Computational Mechanics for Natural Hazards Modeling”. |
| Sep 9, 2024 | I am starting a new website! |
| Sep 6, 2024 | Together with my colleagues from the Soga Research Group, I co-organized and presented at the 15th Annual MPM Workshop held at the Berkeley City Club. |
| Aug 10, 2024 | Participated in a two-week training program at Argonne National Lab (7/28-8/9) on extreme-scale computing (ATPESC). |
| Jul 26, 2024 | Attended the 16th World Congress in Computational Mechanics in Vancouver, Canada (7/21-7/26). I presented my work on “Development of mixed material point method for analysis of free-surface and seepage flow”. Read more here. |
| Jul 18, 2024 | Visited my collaborator at the University of Tokyo, Prof. Jun Kurima and his group, for three days (7/15-7/18). Also met Prof. Takeshi Tsuji and Prof. Tokio Morimoto. |
| Jul 12, 2024 | Visited my collaborator, Prof. Ryota Hashimoto, at Kyoto University for one week (7/8-7/12). During the visit, I gave a seminar presentation to his group on “Recent advances in material point method (MPM) for modeling hydro-mechanical and seismic-related problems”. |
| Jul 2, 2024 | Visited my undergraduate alma mater, Kyushu University, for two days (7/1-7/2). It was great to catch up with my former professors and colleagues, as well as meeting some new friends. |
| Jun 28, 2024 | Visited and gave a presentation at KAJIMA Technical Research Institute Singapore (KaTRIS). |
| May 18, 2024 | Participated in UC Berkeley’s PhD commencement 2024 marking the end of PhD study, see some pictures here. |