A collaboration with former HKUST colleagues shows that trapped, compressed pore-air can bring forward slope failure under rapid surface flooding, even though it slows the wetting front.
Read more →Jidu's abstract on shear-triggered hydrate dissociation and submarine slope failure has been accepted for an oral presentation at the AGU26 Annual Meeting in San Francisco.
Read more →Jidu celebrated the Mid-Autumn Festival with colleagues and friends from UC Berkeley and Berkeley Lab, over a home-cooked dinner and a Hunan feast with Prof. Soga's group.
Read more →Prof. Kenichi Soga, Jidu and Yaobin visited Prof. Simon Schleicher's 3D printing lab at the Richmond Field Station to explore collaboration between computational modeling, fiber optic sensing and 3D printed architecture.
Read more →Jidu attended Xiamen University's Bay Area talent exchange event at Stanford University, where Prof. Zhaoxiong Xie, Assistant to the President, introduced the university's talent recruitment programs.
Read more →Our work on a solid-like rheological model for fresh concrete and its implementation in the material point method was presented at the 17th Annual MPM Workshop in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Read more →Jidu visited the College of Architecture and Civil Engineering at Xiamen University and met with Dean Prof. De-Chun Lu to discuss marine geotechnics and how multiphysics, multiscale modeling can serve ocean engineering.
Read more →A new way to impose heat-flux boundary conditions in the material point method without tracking the boundary, now published in the International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering.
Read more →Jidu attended the 21st International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering in Vienna, Austria, where our high-fidelity multiscale framework for permafrost thaw-related geohazards appears in the proceedings.
Read more →Our THM-coupled MPM paper for freezing and thawing porous media has been named a Wiley Top Viewed Article, ranking among the top 10% most-viewed papers published in IJNAMG in 2024.
Read more →A collaborative study on a stabilized semi-implicit MPM for coupled soil-structure interaction problems with large deformation.
Read more →Our THM-coupled MPM paper for freezing and thawing porous media has been recognized as one of the top 10 most-cited articles in IJNAMG among works published in 2024.
Read more →A collaborative study linking particle breakage, gradation evolution and the critical state of widely graded granular soils.
Read more →I joined the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley as a Postdoctoral Researcher, working with Prof. Kenichi Soga.
Read more →Jidu concluded four and a half years at HKUST, with heartfelt thanks to his supervisor Prof. Jidong Zhao and to all members of the Jidong Group.
Read more →Jidu gave an online invited talk to the Institute of Geotechnical Engineering at Beijing University of Technology on multiphysics and multiscale large-deformation modeling of geomaterials, with frozen soils and hydrate-bearing soils as examples.
Read more →A hybrid MPM-DEM framework that links grain-scale mechanisms to the field-scale THMC response of methane hydrate-bearing sediment, published in the Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids.
Read more →Jidu attended the Young Scholars Forum at Southeast University in Nanjing and gave a talk on multiphysics and multiscale large-deformation modeling of geomaterials at the School of Civil Engineering sub-forum.
Read more →Jidu visited his master's supervisor, Prof. Sihong Liu, at Hohai University and shared his recent research with the group.
Read more →Jidu officially received his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from HKUST and was hooded by his supervisor, Prof. Jidong Zhao, at the HKUST Congregation on 18 October 2025.
Read more →A collaborative study on a semi-implicit total-Lagrangian MPM that speeds up hydromechanical simulations of saturated porous media.
Read more →A fully coupled thermo-hydro-mechanical-chemical MPM that follows hydrate dissociation through to large-deformation failure, published in the Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids.
Read more →Presented a hybrid explicit-implicit THMC-MPM for hydrate-bearing sediment at the 2nd Workshop on Material Point Method & Extreme Deformation Problems.
Read more →Started as a Postdoctoral Researcher at HKUST, working with Prof. Jidong Zhao.
Read more →Jidu successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis, "Multiscale Modeling of Coupled Thermo-Hydro-Mechanical Behaviour of Granular Media", at HKUST with minor revisions.
Read more →An improved fractional step MPM that accounts for fluid compressibility and thermal effects, published in Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering.
Read more →Jidu concluded his six-month visit to Prof. Kenichi Soga's group at UC Berkeley, celebrated with a farewell dinner hosted by Prof. Soga.
Read more →Jidu began a visit as a Visiting Ph.D. Researcher in Prof. Kenichi Soga's group at UC Berkeley, supported by the HKUST Overseas Research Award.
Read more →Jidu presented his work on multiphysics, multiscale modeling of freeze-thaw behavior in granular media at the 16th World Congress on Computational Mechanics in Vancouver, Canada.
Read more →A three-phase THM material point method for freezing and thawing soils and permafrost hazards, published in the International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics.
Read more →Jidu passed his Ph.D. Qualifying Examination at HKUST with the proposal "Multiphysics and Multiscale Modeling of Phase Transition and Large Deformation in Granular Media".
Read more →Jidu presented his work on multiphysics, multiscale modeling of freeze-thaw behavior in granular media at the GeoShanghai International Conference 2024.
Read more →A hierarchical MPM-DEM framework that reveals how ice bonding and melting control the response of frozen granular soils, published in Computers and Geotechnics.
Read more →Jidu presented a semi-implicit material point method for thermo-hydro-mechanical simulation of saturated porous media at the International Symposium on Innovations in Geotechnical Engineering towards Sustainability.
Read more →Jidu's first SCI paper from his Ph.D. at HKUST, a stabilized semi-implicit THM material point method for saturated porous media, was published in Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering.
Read more →Jidu presented an explicit-implicit THM-coupled material point method for saturated porous media at the 26th Annual Conference of HKSTAM, his first conference talk during his Ph.D.
Read more →A unified fractional particle breakage model for granular materials, built on Jidu's dyed gypsum particle tests at Hohai University, was published in Construction and Building Materials.
Read more →Jidu's first SCI paper, on the survival probability and shape evolution of crushable particles studied with dyed gypsum particles, was published in the ASCE Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering.
Read more →Jidu's very first journal paper, an experimental study of the compaction of gap-graded coarse-grained soils, was published in the Chinese Journal of Geotechnical Engineering.
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