Dr. Liming Li is an Associate
Research Scientist majoring in Geotechnical, Geo-environmental and Earthquake
Engineering, and is the Manager of Centrifuge Research Center/ Carleton
Laboratory of the Department of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, Columbia University. He obtained his bachelor's degree in Civil
Engineering from Southwest Jiaotong
University, China,
and his master's and doctoral degrees from Osaka City University. After completing his doctoral research on
earth pressure and deformation of buried flexible pipes through centrifuge
modeling, he joined Kiso-Jiban Consultants Co., Ltd. and then Nippon Koei Co.,
Ltd. as a consulting engineer, and was doing research projects and consulting
service in the fields of geotechnical, geo-environmental and earthquake
engineering for 11 years in Japan. Together with his thesis research in Osaka City
University, Dr. Li has
basically 15 years of practical experience in laboratory testing, centrifuge
modeling techniques. He joined Columbia University in 2007.
Dr. Li’s major research
interests are static and dynamic soil-structure interaction problems such as
behavior of underground structures, stability of structure foundations and
performance of slope protection works.
Recently, he is also doing researches on geo-environmental and
earthquake engineering such as rainfall induced ground surface erosion, impact
of earthquake to the earth structures and risk evaluation and so on. He has also developed several earthquake
protection technologies to mitigate the earthquake damage of underground
structures collaborated with public research institutions in Japan.
Dr. Li is a member of
Japanese Geotechnical Society, Japanese Society of Civil Engineering, and also a
voting member of technical committee D18 Soil and Rock. He serves as a paper reviewer for several professional journals and international conferences.