Assistant Professor (Geotechnical Engineering)
Ir. Dr. Clarence E. Choi

BSc (with distinction), University of Calgary, Canada
PhD, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China

 

MHKIE(G)

 

Office: HW 6-29
Phone: +852 2859 1980
Fax: +852 2559 5337
E-mail: cechoi@hku.hk
Homepage: https://www.cechoi.org/

 

Teaching Activities

• CIVL3133 Ground Improvement
• CIVL3114/CIVL6079 Slope Engineering
• CIVL6077 Ground Investigation and Soil Testing

 

Research Interests

• Landslides
• Ground improvement
• Decarbonization
• Climate resilience and adaptation
• Disaster response

 

Awards

• 2025 Telford Gold Medal, ICE, UK
• 2023 R.M. Quigley Award, CGS, Canada
• 2023 Best Paper Award, Landslides, ICL, UNESCO
• 2023 Outstanding Young Engineer of the Year Award, HKIE, HKSAR
• 2023 The 3^rd Hutchinson Lecture, FedIGS
• 2022 The 2^nd Oldrich Hungr Lecture, ICL, UNESCO
• 2022 Geotechnical Paper Award, HKIE, HKSAR
• 2021 Bright Spark Award, ISSMGE
• 2019 Best Paper Award, Landslides, ICL, UNESCO
• 2017 Telford Premium Prize, ICE, UK
• 2017 R.M. Quigley Award (honourable mention), CGS, Canada

 

Editorial Memberships

• Associate Editor of Canadian Geotechnical Journal
• Editorial Board Members of Landslides and Engineering Geology

 

Representative Research Projects as PI/PC

• Disaster reconstruction of landslides for rapid rescue of buried objects using differentiable physics-guided machine learning (RGC-CRF)
• Carbon-friendly pneumatic flow mixing to rapidly recycle waste mud for land reclamation in Hong Kong (EPD-GTF)
• 8 RGC-ECS/GRF projects on landslide hazard mitigation

 

Memberships in Learned Societies

• Nominated Member of Joint Technical Committee No. 1 (JTC1) on Natural Slopes and Landslides of Federation of the International Geoengineering Societies
• Chair-nominated Member of Technical Committee on Slope Stability (TC208), International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering
• Board Member of International Consortium of Landslides, UNESCO
• Secretary General of the Hong Kong Geotechnical Society, International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering

 

10 Selected Representative Publications

• Choi C.E., Yu J. and Zhang J.* (2024) The missing link between field and modelled submarine debris flows: scale effects of physical modelling. Earth-Science Reviews, (in press).
• Choi C.E.* (2024) The 3^rd Hutchinson Lecture: Numerical Modelling of Forests as a Nature-based Solution to Mitigate Flow-type Landslide Hazards. Landslides, (in press).
• Zhang J., and Choi C.E.* (2024). Towards a universal settling model for microplastics with diverse shapes: Machine learning breaking morphological barriers. Water Research, 122961.
• Choi C.E. and Nikooei M.* (2023) Revealing the physics of sediment ploughing by geophysical mass flows: Depth-averaged approach. Computers and Geotechnics, 154: 105119.
• Choi C.E. and Song P* (2023) New unsaturated erosion model for landslide: Effects of flow particle size and debunking the importance of frictional stress. Engineering Geology, 315: 107024.
• Choi C.E. and Liang Z.* (2024) Segmentation and deep learning to digitalize the frontal kinematics of flow-type landslides. Acta Geotechnica, (https://doi.org/10.1007/s11440-023-02216-5).
• Choi C.E., Zhang J.* and Liang, Z. (2022) Towards realistic predictions of microplastic fibre transport: secondary motions. Water Research, 218: 118476.
• Du J., Choi C.E.*, Yu J. and Thakur, V. (2022) Mechanisms of submarine debris flow growth. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 127(3), e2021JF006470.
• Ng C.W.W., Majeed U. and Choi C.E.* (2022) Effects of solid fraction of saturated granular flows on overflow and landing mechanisms of rigid barriers. Géotechnique, (published online: https://doi.org/10.1680/jgeot.21.00170).
• Zhang J. and Choi C.E.* (2022) New shape-dependent drag model for microplastic fibers. Environmental Science & Technology, 56(2): 962-973.

 

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