1. Introduction and education background

Dr. Yongliang Wang is currently an associate professor in the Department of Engineering Mechanics, School of Mechanics and Civil Engineering, State Key Laboratory for Fine Exploration and Intelligent Development, at China University of Mining and Technology (Beijing). He obtained his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Civil Engineering at Tsinghua University in 2014. In 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2019, he successively visited the Zienkiewicz Centre for Computational Engineering at Swansea University, UK, the Applied and Computational Mechanics Center at Cardiff University, UK, and the Rockfield Software Ltd, UK, to carry out cooperative research. In 2022 and 2023, he visited the University of California, Berkeley and San Diego, USA, as a visiting scholar.

2. Research and teaching works

His research interests include high-performance adaptive finite element methods, computation and analysis of rock damage and fracture, and structural vibration and stability. He has also taught computational mechanics at the undergraduate level and the basic theory of the finite element method, computational solid mechanics, and rock fracture mechanics, and frontier and progress in mechanics at the graduate level. He is a board member of the Soft Rock Branch of the Chinese Society for Rock Mechanics and Engineering and a member of the Chinese Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, China Civil Engineering Society, and China Coal Society; moreover, he serves as a project expert of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, and project expert of the Degree Center of Ministry of Education of China. He serves as a project expert of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, and project expert of the Degree Center of Ministry of Education of China; moreover, he is the editorial board member, youth editorial board member and guest editor of the Journal of Petroleum and Petrochemical Engineering, Journal of Intelligent Construction, Green and Smart Mining Engineering, Energy and Fuel, Energies, Frontiers in Build Environment, Journal of Engineering Science, Petroleum and New Energy, etc.

3. Representative research and teaching achievements

As the person in charge, he presided over eighteen research projects, including the National Natural Science Foundation of China, Beijing Natural Science Foundation, China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) Innovation Found, China Postdoctoral Deflection of Fracturing Fracture Network Disturbed by Discontinuity and Multiple Fractures in Rock Science Foundation, Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, Ministry of Education of China, Key Laboratory Open Project Foundation of Soft Soil Characteristics and Engineering Environment, Teaching Reform and Research Projects of Undergraduate Education, and Yue Qi Young Scholar Project Foundation. He participated in twelve research projects, including the Major Scientific Research Instrument Development of the National Natural Science Foundation and the National Key Research and Development Program of China. He published 5 books in English and more than 190 academic papers; furthermore, he obtained more than 50 software copyrights. He has received the Rock Mechanics Education Award, Chinese Society for Rock Mechanics and Engineering (2021), high quality book award for Beijing universities (2023), the Excellent Supervisor Award, CUMTB (2019, 2020), the Science and Technology Award, China Coal Industry Association (2019), the Yue Qi Young Scholar Award, CUMTB (2019), the Emerald Literate Highly Commended Paper Award (2018), and the Frontrunner 5000 (F5000) Top Articles in Outstanding S&T Journals of China (2016, 2022).

Personal page：www.wangyongliang.net, Email：wangyl@cumtb.edu.cn