April 2012: News
Guangran Yang is hired as a Summer 2012 RA in GeoOptical Lab to work on NDT of soil nailing.
November 2011: News
Bingxiang is leaving for China after two year study in Canada. Wish him good luck!
June 2011: News
Jinyuan attended GeoHunan 2011 Conference in Changsha and met collaborators there: Dr. Sui and Gao Yue from CUMT, Dr. Chen from CSU, Dr. Sun from WHUT, Dr. Jiang from NCUWCHP, and Dr. Liu from Hohai.
May 2011: Student News
Eric Liu received 2011 Tunnelling Association of Canada Student Award for his BEng thesis work.
March 2011: News
The proposal for MTO is selected for funding.
The group submitted three conference papers to Pan Am CGS conference 2011.
January 2011: Team Member News
Dr. Chen finished his one year visit and wish him good luck in China!
September 2010: Team Member News
New team members are: Saeed, Prathik, Muhammad, and Kurt (co-supervised with Dr. Kianoush) and BEng thesis students: Eric, Maria, and Adam.
Dr. Jiang finished his six-month visit and wish him good luck!
June 2010: News
Jinyuan will serve as the chairman for CGS-SOS Toronto Group in the coming year.
Jinyuan visited three univesities (CUMT, Hohai, and WHUT), seven cities, and attended GeoShanghai Conference.
April 2010: Research Paper News
Good neews: Five research papers from last year have been published or accepted by various journals
April 2010: Student News
Cindy has finished her eight-month RA project. Van and Ralph has successfully defended their thesis work.
April 2010: Grant News
Good News: Grant application submitted to State Key Lab of GeoMechanics and Deep Underground Engineering at CUMT was accepted for funding.
Good News: NSERC USRA application was selected by Ryerson for recommendations for funding.
Bad News: The ERA application submitted to MRI was denied.
January 2010: Student Success
Pezhman Sainia won the second place with a $200 prize in CGS-SOS 2010 Graduate Student Competition.
January 2010: New Research Team Member
Dr. Keping Chen arrived at Ryerson to work in geotechnical group for one year. Dr. Chen is currently an associate professor at Central South University in Changsha, China.
January 2010: New Research Team Member
Dr. Tong Jiang arrived at Ryerson to work in geotechnical group for six months. Dr. Jiang is currently an associate professor at NCUWCHP in Zhengzhou, China.
January 2010: New Research Team Member
Mr. Bingxiang Yuan joined Dr. Liu's research group in early January 2010.
September 2009: New Research Team Members
Mr. Van M Thai and Ralph Diaamo will work on a thesis project related to soil movement around a laterally loaded pile.
Ms. Cindy Costain is hired to work as a research assistant to capture 3-D deformation using stereo-piv technique.
