Biography

Dr. Chao Liu obtained his Ph.D. in Engineering from Tongji University and completed his undergraduate studies at Central South University. During his doctoral studies, he pursued a year of joint training at the University of Colorado Boulder in the United States. Following the completion of his Ph.D., he engaged in postdoctoral research at the Department of Civil Engineering, University of Hong Kong. He joined Guangzhou University in 2017 and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2021.

Dr. Liu's research is dedicated to advancing the frontiers of underground and tunnel engineering, with a strong emphasis on smart construction, intelligent disaster prevention and mitigation, and structural health assessment. He is the recipient of the Outstanding Youth Fund of the Guangdong Natural Science Foundation (2026). As a Principal Investigator, he has successfully led numerous high-level research grants, including one General Programs and one Young Scientists Fund from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), a sub-project of the National Key R&D Program, and multiple provincial and municipal science and technology projects.

Currently, Dr. Liu's research interests predominantly focus on the following three areas:
(1) Intelligent control systems and multi-machine cooperative technologies for tunnel construction;
(2) Autonomous positioning, advanced path planning, and intelligent obstacle avoidance for mobile equipment in complex tunnel environments;
(3) Multi-scale numerical simulations (e.g., FEM, CFD-DEM) integrated with cutting-edge artificial intelligence (e.g., CNN-Transformer) for disaster early-warning and mechanisms analysis.

(Last updated: 2026/06/16)