Dr. Xiaofeng Li(李晓锋)

Professor
Institute of Rock and Soil Mechanics
Chinese Academy of Sciences
No.2 XiaoHongshan. Wuhan, China, 420071
OpenFDEM website: www.openfdem.com
Email: xfli@whrsm.ac.cn
     

Biography

Hello, welcome to my personal webpage!!! My name is Xiaofeng Li and I am a researcher working at the University of Toronto. I obtained my PhD degree from Institute of Rock and Soil Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (also University of Chinese Academy of Sciences) and Monash University , supervised by Prof. Haibo Li and Prof. Jian Zhao. Then, I did postdoctoral research at PolyU from 2020-2021. Currently, I am a postdoc in Grasselli's Geomechanics Group at the University of Toronto.

I am skilled at C++, C, JavaScript, Matlab, HTML and R programing, and be familiar with Python and CUDA.

Education Background

2017/03-2019/03, PhD in Rock mechanics and mining, Monash University , Clayton, Australia

2013/09-2019/06, PhD in Rock Dynamics and Impacts, Institute of Rock and Soil Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences , Wuhan, China

2009/09-2013/06, BEng in Civil Engineering, Wuhan University , Department of Civil Engineering, Wuhan, China (GPA Ranking First)

Research Appointments

I am looking for a professorship in geomechanics, rock dynamics or computational mechanics.

• 2023/09-present, Professor, Institute of Rock and Soil Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
• 2021/09-2023/09, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
• 2020/02-2021/09, Postdoctoral Fellow, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China
• 2019/07-2020/02, Research Assistant Professor, Institute of Rock and Soil Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China
• 2014/09-2016/06, Teaching and Research Assistant for the courses of 'Introduction to Plasticity' and 'Fracture Mechanics' in Institute of Rock and Soil Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Awards and Honors

2023: First Class of Natural Science Award, Chinese Society for Rock Mechanics & Engineering (2/4, 中国岩石力学与工程学会自然科学奖)

2023: Top academic paper library of F5000 in Chinese excellent journals (中国精品科技期刊领跑者5000论文获得者)

2022: Future Leader in ARMA (2022年度美国岩石力学学会未来领袖获得者)

2021: ROCHA runner-up by International Society for Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering (2021年度国际岩石力学学会罗哈银奖)

2021: Top academic paper library of F5000 in Chinese excellent journals (中国精品科技期刊领跑者5000论文获得者)

2020: Oustanding paper of Tan Tjongkie Award (2020年度陈宗基论文奖)

2020: First Class of Science and Technology Progress Award, Hubei province (2/15, 2020年度湖北省科技进步一等奖)

2020: Springer Thesis Award, Springer Press

2020: Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Award of Chinese Academy of Science (National 81/6000)

2020: Excellent Doctoral Dissertation of the Chinese Society for Rock Mechanics & Engineering, CSRME (Ranking first)

2019: Special Prize of President Scholarship of Chinese Academy of Science, Chinese Academy of Science (National 60/8000)

2019: Outstanding Graduate of Chinese Academy of Science

2019: Outstanding Graduate of Beijing City

2013: Outstanding Bachelor Graduate Student of China Civil Engineering Society

2013: Outstanding Bachelor Graduate Student of Hubei Province

2013: First Prize of National Structure Design Contest for College Students

2012: Honorable Award of Mathematical Contest in Modeling (MCM), America COMAP

2010-2013: Merit Student and Outstanding Graduates, Wuhan University

Academic Activities and Memberships

2022/11: Guest Editor of special issue "Combined finite-discrete element modelling in rock mechanics and rock engineering" on JRMGE

2022/11: Member of Organizing Committee of CHINA ROCK 2022 (2022年China Rock 组委会成员)

2022/10: Scientific Editor of Journal of Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (岩石力学与工程学报科学编辑)

2022/07: Vice Secretary-general of Committee of Chinese rock dynamics (中国岩石动力学专委会副秘书长)

2022/02: Member of Organizing Committee of RocDyn-4 (第四届国际岩石动力学大会组委会成员)

2021/10: Secretary-general of 11th Asian Rock Mechanics Symposium (ARMS 11, 11届亚洲岩石力学峰会秘书处成员)

From 2020/10: Young Editor Board of International Journal of Mining Science and Technology

From 2020/03: Editor Board of Advances in Civil Engineering

From 2018/07: Member of International Society for Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering

From 2019/08: Member of International Society of Impact Engineering

From 2019/07: Member of American Rock Mechanics Association

From 2019/03: Member of American Geophysical Union

2018/06: Outstanding Reviewer, Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology

Reviewer for: Extreme Mech Lett; Int J Mech Sci; Rock Mech Rock Eng; Tunn Undergr Sp Tech; Int J Rock Mech Min; Comput Geotech; Eng Geol; J Rock Mech Geotech; Acta Geotech; Appl Math Model; Eng Fract Mech; Int J Impact Eng; B Eng Geol Environ