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Former Researcher

James Xu

Ph.D. Office: 508 Davis Hall Email: james.xu ‘at’ berkeley ‘dot’ edu James is a third-year Ph.D. candidate interested in the intersections of infrastructure health monitoring, numerical modeling, and machine learning. He is minoring in Statistics and Electrical Engineering and Computer… Read More »James Xu

Han Liu

Ph.D. Office: 508 Davis Hall Email: han_liu ‘at’ berkeley ‘dot’ edu Han Liu is a Ph.D. specializing in Structural Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, Han possesses a robust academic background, having earned a Bachelor’s degree at Wuhan University,… Read More »Han Liu

Lauren Talbot

Ph.D. Email: lauren.talbot ‘at’ berkeley ‘dot’ edu Lauren is a Ph.D. student within the Soga Research Group at Berkeley. Her research area is computational geomechanics, with a focus on the Material Point Method (MPM). Lauren’s current work involves developing new… Read More »Lauren Talbot

Joel Given

PhD Student Email: joelgiven ‘at’ berkeley ‘dot’ edu Joel is a Ph.D. student at UC Berkeley within Prof. Kenichi Soga’s computational geomechanics group. Joel’s research currently focuses on two main areas: MPM MPM modeling is completed with a single-phase explicit… Read More »Joel Given

Saki Nonaka

Visiting Researcher Email: nonakasa ‘at’ kajima ‘dot’ com Saki is a visiting researcher in the Soga Research Group. She has been working at Kajima Corporation as a research engineer, mainly focusing on fluid analysis. She obtained her bachelor’s and master’s… Read More »Saki Nonaka

Yuya Nakashima

Visiting Researcher Email: yuya-nakashima ‘at’ berkeley ‘dot’ edu Yuya Nakashima is a visiting researcher at the University of California, Berkeley. He has also worked at Fuji Electric Co., Ltd. for 12 years, where he is in charge of materials engineering… Read More »Yuya Nakashima

Qinglai Zhang

Ph.D. student at University College Cork, Ireland Email: 120224300 ‘at’ umail ‘dot’ ucc ‘dot’ ie Qinglai Zhang is currently a visiting student at Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at University of California, Berkeley, working with Prof. Kenichi Soga. Her… Read More »Qinglai Zhang

Tianchen Xu

Ph.D. Office: 418 Davis Hall Email: tianchenxu ‘at’ berkeley ‘dot’ edu Tianchen is currently a second-year PhD student at University of California, Berkeley working with Prof. Kenichi Soga. He is a member of fiber optic group and is working on… Read More »Tianchen Xu

Pengshun Li

Ph.D. Email: pengshun ‘at’ berkeley ‘dot’ edu Pengshun Li 李鹏舜 graduated from Central South University in 2019 with a B.S. in Transportation and obtained M.S. in Control Science and Engineering from Tsinghua University in 2022. He is currently a Ph.D. student in… Read More »Pengshun Li

Kecheng Chen

Ph.D.  Candidate Email: kecheng_chen ‘at’ berkeley ‘dot’ edu Kecheng is currently a PhD student in Civil Systems at UC Berkeley. He earned his MSc in Civil Systems in 2020 fall. Before attending UC Berkeley, Kecheng obtained his BEng in Theoretical… Read More »Kecheng Chen