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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.