Current Professional Societies

1.Executive Director ofSub-society for Underground Space of CSRME (Chinese Society for Rock Mechanics & Engineering)

2.Executive Director of Sub-society for Soft Rock Engineering and Deep Disaster Control of CSRME

3.Member of Youth Working Committee of CSRME

4.Member of International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering

5.Editorial Board Member of Chinese Journal of Underground Space and Engineering

Research Areas

1.Stability evaluation and treatment technology of building slopeengineering

2.Design and monitoring technology of building foundation pit engineering

3.Safety assessment, monitoring and testing technology of urban underground engineering

4.Assessment and control of Geo-hazard

Publications

1.Yao Aijun, Xue Tinghe. Stability evaluation method and engineering practice of complex slope. Beijing：Science Press,2008.1

2.Yao Aijun, Teng Tingjing, Heng Chaoyang, Cao Wufu. Theory and practice of disaster assessment in the neighborhood of subway tunnel construction. Beijing: Science Press, 2016.11

Personal statement

Yao Aijun, Ph.D. andNationalRegistered Civil Engineer (Geotechnical), is a professor and Doctoral Supervisor in the College of Architecture and Civil Engineering in Beijing University of Technology. His research and teaching interests mainly focus on geotechnical engineering and geo-mechanics. He is the author of over 130 papers and 2 books as well asthe associate editor of four textbooks and key editor of another. Additionally, Dr. Yao owns 5 utility model patents and 16national inventionpatents. He has been in charge of over 50 research and industrial projects, among which 2 were sponsored by the National Natural Science Foundation of China. Dr. Yao has received the Second-Class State Science and Technology Progress Awards for 2 times, and 6 times Provincial/Ministry Level Science and Technology Progress Awards, among which two are the First Class; one the Second Class; and three the Third Class. He also won 6 awards from other professional societies.