Dr. C.E. Choi

Ir. Professor Clarence E. Choi
Associate Professor (Geotechnical Engineering)

BSc (Distinction), University of Calgary
PhD, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

 

YMHKEng, MHKIE(GEL)

 

Office: HW 6-29
Phone: +852 3917 1980
Fax: +852 2559 5337
E-mail: cechoi@hku.hk

 

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

 

Research Interests
  • Landslide Hazard Mitigation
  • Decarbonisation in Ground Improvement and Reclamation

 

Professional Activities
  • Geotechnical Discipline Advisory Panel, HKIE
  • Associate Editor, Canadian Geotechnical Journal and Géotechnique Letters
  • Secretary General, TC208 (slope stability), ISSMGE
  • President, HKGES, ISSMGE
  • Member, JTC1, FedIGS
  • Board Member, ICL, UNESCO

 

10 Selected Representative Publications
  • Wang Y., Cui Y. , Zhou W. and Choi C.E.* (2025) Seismic inversion for grain size distribution in granular geohazards: combining theory and experiments. Géotechnique, (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, 272:122961.
  • 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, 258:104911.
  • Choi C.E.* (2024) The 3rd Hutchinson Lecture: numerical modelling of forests as a nature-based solution to mitigate flow-type landslide hazards. Landslides, 22: 2883-2896.
  • Choi C.E. and Liang Z.* (2024) Segmentation and deep learning to digitalize the frontal kinematics of flow-type landslides. Acta Geotechnica, 19:6337-6356.
  • 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., Zhang J.* and Liang, Z. (2022) Towards realistic predictions of microplastic fibre transport: secondary motions. Water Research, 218:118476.
  • Zhang J. and Choi C.E.* (2022) New shape-dependent drag model for microplastic fibers. Environmental Science & Technology, 56(2):962-973.
  • 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, 74(1):27-41.
  • 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.