Sustainable and Resilient Geotechnical Infrastructure Laboratory
Prof. Lei Wang, Ph.D., P.E.
Dr. Wang is an Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering and the Director of the Sustainable and Resilient Geotechnical Infrastructure Laboratory at University of Cincinnati. He received his PhD in civil engineering from Clemson University. He has an extensive research experience in geotechnical engineering and infrastructure risk and resilience, including geotechnical risk and reliability, risk and resilience assessment of civil infrastructure, underground excavation and tunneling, soil/rock-structure interaction, numerical and centrifuge modeling, earth dams and levees, foundation engineering, and geotechnical earthquake engineering. He has published over 70 refereed journal and conference papers. His research has been supported by NSF, NASA, USDA, USGS, and NIST. He was a recipient of many honors and awards, including the Best Paper Award by Taiwan Geotechnical Society.
Open position
- GRADUATE ASSISTANTSHIP FOR PHD STUDENTS IN GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERINGDr. Wang’s research group invites applicants for one PhD positions in geotechnical engineering for Fall 2025. Highly-motivated individuals with a strong background in numerical modeling (especially discrete element method or material point method), machine learning and probabilistic methods, and non-invasive sensing methods in geotechnical engineering, adequate English proficiency, and the ability to work both independently and as… Read more: GRADUATE ASSISTANTSHIP FOR PHD STUDENTS IN GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING
Previous events
- Engineering Mechanics Institute Conference and Probabilistic Mechanics & Reliability Conference 2021May 25–28, 2021
- International Foundations Conference and Equipment Expo (IFCEE 2021)May 10-14, 2021
- ASCE Geo-Congress 2020February 25–28, 2020
News
April 17, 2025
Dr. Wang gave an oral presentation at Seismological Society of America 2025 Annual Meeting hosted at Baltimore, MD on seismic assessment of nuclear infrastructure.
April 17, 2025
Congratulations to Liang Zhang’s paper titled “Multivariate Adaptive Regression Splines for two-stage design optimization of bio-inspired drilling into the lunar regolith” accepted by journal of Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization. The co-authors include Yuxin Yuan and Jiajie Cheng.
Link to journal: https://link.springer.com/journal/158
April 11, 2025
Congratulations to Yuxin Yuan for winning the Armstrong Institute for Space, Technology, and Research (ASTRO) Armstrong Exploration Fellowship from University of Cincinnati!
March 12, 2025
Congratulations to Liang Zhang successfully defended his PhD dissertation and will graduate on May 1st! Liang will stay in the group as a post-doctoral fellow.
March 4, 2025
Dr. Wang gave an oral presentation on levee reliability at the Geotechnical Frontier Conference. He also co-chaired one session with Dr. Ravi at Clemson University.
Feb 7, 2025
Dr. Wang delivered an oral presentation on robustness of levee at the third annual NHERI Computational Symposium hosted by UCLA.
Jan 5, 2025
Welcome PhD students Skarleth Gutierrez and Yating Yang, and undergraduate student Ethan Lee joined the group.
Nov 27, 2024
Dr. Wang gave an oral presentation on the risk session at ASCE Geo-Institute 9th Annual Web Conference.
Oct 14, 2024
Dr. Wang gave an oral presentation on slope stabilization for the Ohio Transportation Engineering Conference.
September 16, 2024
Congratulations for Liang Zhang’s paper titled “Probabilistic analysis of performance of three-dimensional supported excavations considering soil spatial variability” was accepted ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems, Part A: Civil Engineering. Jiajie Cheng is a co-author of this paper.
May 14, 2024
Dr. Wang attended 20th International Conference on Cold Regions Engineering, Anchorage. He served as a panel member for the aerospace engineering session, co-chaired a session on cold region infrastructure, and gave an oral presentation on lunar drilling. Dr. Wang also visited the permafrost tunnel and other research facility of USACE located in Fairbanks.
April 16, 2024
Dr. Wang gave an oral presentation on the session of planetary drilling and sampling at ASCE Earth & Space 2024 conference and visited the Kennedy Space Center. His past student Jesus Badal also presented in this conference.