Assistant Professor, Geotechnical Engineering
Department of Civil, Environmental, and Construction Engineering, Texas Tech University
Joint Faculty, National Wind Institute, Texas Tech University
Joint Appointee, National Laboratory of the Rockies, U.S. Department of Energy
Email: Yimin.Lu@ttu.edu
Ph.D., Civil Engineering (Geosystems), Georgia Institute of Technology, USA, 2022
M.S., Computational Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA, 2021
M.S., Civil Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA, 2021
B.Eng., Civil Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology, China, 2015
Granular mechanics and rheology
Particle-fluid systems
Reactive multiphase flow
Scientific machine learning
Alternative energy
Coastal resilience
05/2023, George F. Sowers Distinguished Graduate Student Award
11/2022, Best Poster Award, ASCE GI – Georgia Tech Poster Symposium
10/2022, CEE Future Faculty Fellowship, Georgia Tech
05/2021, Paul W. Mayne Outstanding Geosystems Graduate Student Award
11/2014, China National Scholarship
11/2012, China National Scholarship
Editorial Board: ISSMGE Journal on Geotechnical Engineering Research
Committee:
ASCE Engineering Mechanics Institute (EMI): Granular Materials Committee, Computational Mechanics Committee
ASCE Geo-Institute (G-I): Computational Geotechnics Committee, Soil Properties & Modeling Committee
International Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE): TC 103, 308, and 309
Member: ASCE G-I, ASCE EMI, ISSMGE, U.S. Association for Computational Mechanics (USACM), American Geophysical Union (AGU)
Reviewer: Acta Geotechnica, Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, Ocean Engineering, Physics of Fluids, Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Scientific Reports, Geomechanics and Geophysics for Geo-Energy and Geo-Resources, Case Studies in Construction Materials, Deep Underground Science and Engineering, Géotechnique Letters, Geotechnical and Geological Engineering, Biosystems Engineering, etc.