11th International Conference on Geotechnical Research and Engineering (ICGRE 2026)

Dr. Hai-Sui Yu

University of Leeds, UK

Plenary Speaker

Professor Hai-Sui Yu is Professor of Geotechnical Engineering and Provost and Deputy Vice-Chancellor at the University of Leeds, UK, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2011. Professor Yu worked at the University of Newcastle, Australia from 1990-2000 before taking up the foundation Professorship of Geotechnical Engineering at the University of Nottingham in 2001, where he founded the Nottingham Centre for Geomechanics (NCG). He also served as Head of the School of Civil Engineering, Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, and Pro-Vice-Chancellor there. Professor Yu’s main research activities have focused on theoretical and computational geomechanics, constitutive modelling, in-situ soil testing, and pavement & railway geotechnics. Professor Yu is very active in professional activities and services and is the founding Editor-in-Chief of Geomechanics and Geoengineering. He has been awarded many prestigious international medals and prizes for his research work, which include the British Geotechnical Association Medal for 2015, the Outstanding Contributions Medal of the International Association for Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics (IACMAG) in 2014, the Chandra Desai Medal of IACMAG in 2008, the first James K Mitchell Lecture of the International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering in 2004, Shamsher Prakash Foundation’s Research Award in 2003, the Institution of Civil Engineers’ highest research paper award, the Telford Medal, in 2000, and Australian Geomechanics Society’s Trollope Medal in 1998.