Dr Dong Liao obtained his B.E. degree from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 2017 and his Ph.D. degree from Zhejiang University in 2022. He served as a Postdoctoral Fellow at PolyU before being appointed as a Research Assistant Professor. Dr Liao’s research primarily focuses on constitutive modelling of soil behaviour, discrete element investigation of particulate mechanics, and numerical analysis of geotechnical engineering problems.
Dr Liao has joined us on 1 August 2025.