Professor Kenichi Soga delivered Plenary Lecture I at PARTICLES 2025 in Barcelona, Spain, on October 20, 2025. His plenary lecture, titled “Recent Advances in the Material Point Method for Modelling Fluids, Granular Materials, and Coupled Fluid–Granular Behavior,” highlighted recent developments… Read More »Professor Kenichi Soga Gives Plenary Lecture at PARTICLES 2025 in Barcelona
A new paper by Jaewon Saw, Dayu Apoji, Chien-Chih Wang, and Kenichi Soga, titled “Exploring Distributed Acoustic Sensing for Pedestrian Monitoring: Signal Characteristics and Identification,” has been published in Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board. The study… Read More »New Paper Explores Distributed Acoustic Sensing for Pedestrian Monitoring
A new paper by Sølve Hov, You-Jia Li, Gyu-Beom Shin, Matthew J. DeJong, Kenichi Soga, Priscilla Paniagua, and Stefan Ritter, titled “Interface behaviour of fibre optic strain sensors in cement-improved soil,” has been published in Acta Geotechnica. The paper studies… Read More »New Paper on Interface Behavior of Fiber-Optic Strain Sensors in Cement-Improved Soil
A new review paper by Joel Given, Kenichi Soga, Tadahiro Kishida, and Jinhyun Choo, titled “On the normalization of the undrained stress–strain response of soils,” has been published in the KSCE Journal of Civil Engineering. The paper examines how effective… Read More »New Paper on the Normalization of Undrained Soil Behavior
A new paper by N. Makasis and collaborators, titled “Finding common ground: A comparative study of city-scale shallow geothermal potential for Cambridge, UK, and Berkeley, USA,” has been published in Applied Energy. The study develops a framework for evaluating shallow… Read More »New Paper Compares City-Scale Shallow Geothermal Potential in Cambridge and Berkeley
A new paper by Yanglan Wang, Maria Laura Delle Monache, and Kenichi Soga, titled “Modeling and Optimization of Traffic Evacuation Using Optimal Control Model,” appears in connection with the 2025 IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems. The study develops… Read More »New Paper on Optimal Control Modeling for Traffic Evacuation
On Friday, February 20, 2026, CSI in collaboration with EBMUD and Carollo hosted the second annual Infrastructure Hazard Resilience Workshop at UC Berkeley. Over 230 participants gathered in person and on-line to focus on the urgent challenges facing the infrastructure… Read More »Berkeley Center for Smart Infrastructure Hosts Infrastructure Hazard Resilience Workshop
On September 20, 2025, nearly 85 students from CE 112 (Water and Wastewater Systems Design and Operation) and CE 280 (Rock Mechanics), led by Professor Kenichi Soga, visited the Pardee Dam for a hands-on learning experience. The field trip offered… Read More »Field Trip to Pardee Dam
Professor Dimitrios Zekkos, CSI co-director, is the editor of the new Manual of Practice in Geoenvironmental Engineering (MOP 159) published by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). The manual was developed under the auspices of the Geoenvironmental Engineering Technical… Read More »Dimitrios Zekkos Edits New Manual of Practice in Geoenvironmental Engineering
Professor Kenichi Soga, CSI PI, delivered the 63rd Rankine Lecture on March 15, 2025, in London, England. The Rankine Lecture is widely viewed as the most prestigious of the invited lectures in geotechnics. It commemorates William John Macquorn Rankine, Professor… Read More »Kenichi Soga Delivers the 63rd Rankine Lecture