He has a keen interest in exploring fundamental mechanisms and innovative countermeasures to emerging infrastructure challenges, particularly in the broad area of sustainable and resilient geotechnical engineering. Select topics include sustainable geotechnics, bioinspired geotechnics and computational geomechanics. His career goal is to establish a research platform for bioinspired, sustainable and smart geotechnics (BiSS Geo), where sustainable solutions to a variety of geotechnical problems can be sought at the boundaries of biology, mechanics and engineering.