Lecturer Phone: (86) 13886064513 Email: dsxu@hust.edu.cn Academic Areas: Geotechnical Engineering Research Interests:Fiber optic sensors, geotechnical health monitoring, soil creep, reinforcement, soil-structure interaction Academic Degrees PhD in Geotechnical Engineering, 2014, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University MPhil in Geotechnical Engineering, 2010, Institute of Rock and Soil Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) Bachelor of Engineering, 2007, Central South University, China Professional Experience Lecturer/Assistant Professor (2015-present), School of Civil Engineering and Mechanics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Assistant Professor (2014-2015), Department of Civil Engineering, Chu Hai College of Higher Education, Hong Kong Research Assistant (2013-2014), Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Selected Publications Xu, D.-S. and Yin, J.-H. (2016). Analysis of excavation induced stress distributions of GFRP anchors in a soil slope using distributed fiber optic sensors. Submitted Xu, D.-S. and Yin, J.-H. (2015). Performance monitoring and analysis of bored piles during excavation using distributed fiber optic sensors. Submitted Xu, D.-S. (2015). A new approach for measuring local deformation of soil specimen with fiber Bragg grating sensors. Submitted. Xu, D.-S., Borana, L., and Yin, J.-H. (2013). " Measurement of Small Strain Behavior of a Local Soil by Fiber Bragg Grating Based Local Displacement Transducers." Acta Geotechnica journal, DOI 10.1007/s11440-013-0267-y. Xu, D.-S. #, Yin, J.-H., Cao, Z.-Z., Wang, Y.-L., Zhu, H.-H., and Pei, H.-F. (2013). "A new flexible FBG sensing beam for measuring dynamic lateral displacements of soil in a shaking table test." Measurement, 46(1), 200-209. Xu, D.-S. #, Tong, F., Pei, H.-F., and Yin, J.-H. (2013). "In-situ monitoring of internal displacements by FBG sensors and slope stability analysis under rainfall infiltration." Geotechnical Engineering Journal of the SEAGS & AGSSEA 44(1), 68-74. Courses Taught Highway Construction Technology and Management Finite Element Analysis Project National Natural Science Foundation of China, 51508215,Research on soil stiffness measurement with fiber optic and a constitutive model at small strains, 240,000 (RMB), 2016/01-2018/12, PI Innovation research fund of the Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Study of internal displacement measurement in soil with fiber optic sensing technology, 50000, 2015/01-2015/12, PI National Natural Science Foundation of China,51278442、Study and Verification of a New Simple Method of Creep displacement calculation for soft clay, 2013/01-2016/12, 800,000. Co-I Innovation and Technology Commission, The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, ITS/049/13、Development of New FBG-Based Transducers for Integrated Measurement of Total Earth Pressure, Porewater Pressure and Effective Stress、2013/11-2015/04、0.996 Million (HKD), Co-I The Research Grants Council (RGC) of Hong Kong, UGC/IIDS13/E02/14, Highway Development and the Environment, 2014/10-2015/09, 540,000 (HKD), Co-I Awards