About me

Hi! I am Yidong Zhao (赵忆冬). I am a Ph.D. candidate (defended on 2024-08-23!) at KAIST Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, supervised by Prof. Jinhyun Choo at KAIST Geomechanics Lab. I have also been fortunate to visit UCLA AIVC Laboratory supervised by Prof. Chenfanfu Jiang. My research interests include large deformation simulation, contact mechanics, and data-driven modeling.

Before starting the journey at KAIST, I spent 2.5 years at the University of Hong Kong as a former Ph.D. student. After that, I transferred with my supervisor. I obtained my Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees both from Tongji University in 2016 and 2019, respectively.

Yadi Cao, Yidong Zhao, Minchen Li, Yin Yang, Jinhyun Choo, Demetri Terzopoulos, Chenfanfu Jiang

Computational Mechanics, 2024.

doi.org/10.1007/s00466-024-02524-x

Yidong Zhao, Minchen Li, Chenfanfu Jiang, Jinhyun Choo

International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics, 2024.

doi:10.1002/nag.3731

Yidong Zhao, Chenfanfu Jiang, Jinhyun Choo

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, 2023.

doi:10.1002/nme.7347

Yidong Zhao, Jinhyun Choo, Yupeng Jiang, Liuchi Li

Computers and Geotechnics, 2023.

doi.org/10.1016/j.compgeo.2023.105708

Zhengyu Liang, Clarence Edward Choi, Yidong Zhao, Yupeng Jiang, Jinhyun Choo

Computers and Geotechnics, 2023.

doi.org/10.1016/j.compgeo.2022.105194

Yupeng Jiang, Yidong Zhao, Clarence E. Choi, Jinhyun Choo

Acta Geotechnica, 2022.

doi.org/10.1007/s11440-022-01598-2

Yidong Zhao*, Jinhyun Choo* (equal contribution), Yupeng Jiang, Minchen Li, Chenfanfu Jiang, Kenichi Soga

Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 2022. doi.org/10.1016/j.cma.2022.114820

Yidong Zhao, Jinhyun Choo

Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 2020. doi.org/10.1016/j.cma.2019.112742

KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)

2022-present (defended on 2024-08-23)

Ph.D. student at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Advisor: Prof. Jinhyun Choo

University of California, Los Angeles

2023-2024

Visiting graduate researcher at the Department of Mathematics

Advisor: Prof. Chenfanfu Jiang

The University of Hong Kong

2019-2022

Ph.D. student at the Department of Civil Engineering

Advisor: Prof. Jinhyun Choo

Tongji University

2016-2019

M.E. in Architectural and Civil Engineering

Advisor: Prof. Guoqiang Li

Tongji University

2012-2016

B.E. in Civil Engineering