[07/2026]: Welcome Liting Zheng as the new Ph.D. student to join SIGMA in Fall 2026.

[05/2026]: Ph.D. student Xiwen Hao delivered a poster presentation titled “Using Multi-Epoch LiDAR and Multi-Sensor Data to Support Transportation Infrastructure Assessment and Maintenance Prioritization” during the NDIA Aerospace Conference at the University of Delaware.

[04/2026]: Engineering students learned about PennDOT’s Digital Delivery Program in a lecture by Allen Melley of PennDOT. (Photo: Casey Tinney)

[03/2026]: Ph.D. student Xiong Bi delivered a poster presentation titled “Deciphering Landslide Formation and Evolution Processes: A Time-Series Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar Based Investigation” during Geo-Congress 2026 Conference.

[01/2026]: Welcome Minghao Ai as the new Ph.D. student to join SIGMA.

[10/2025]: Dr. Zhu delivered a presentation titled “Digital Surface Modeling and Risk Assessment: Engineering Insight Across Scales, from Particle Kinematics to Olympus Mons” as part of the ARMA Future Leaders Webinar Series.

[09/2025]: Dr. Zhu delivered a lecture titled “Risk Informed Decisions in Geotechnical Engineering” at the Philadelphia Chapter of PSPE Continuing Education Boot Camp 2025.

[09/2025]: Welcome Weijie Jin and Xiwen Hao as the new Ph.D. students to join SIGMA.

[08/2025]: Congratulations to Ph.D. candidate Rakam Tamang successfully defended his dissertation entitled “Artificial Intelligence Approaches to Jet Grouting Column Diameter Prediction.”.

[03/2025]: Dr. Zhu presented the paper “Modeling Spatial Variability of Ground-Motion Site Resonances for the Jackson Purchase Region in the New Madrid Seismic Zone” during Geotechnical Frontiers 2025 Conference at Luisville, KY.

[01/2025]: There is a fully-funded Ph.D. position in Dr. Zhu’s lab starting from Fall 2025. Please check out our openings page for more information.

[09/2024]: Dr. Zhu delivered a presentation titled “Digital Surface Modeling and Risk Assessment: Engineering Insight Across Scales, from Particle Kinematics to Olympus Mons” sponsored by the Department of Earth Sciences and Engineering at Missouri S&T.

[06/2024]: Dr. Zhu togeher with Dr. Hui Wang from University of Dayton and Dr. Weibing Gong from Missouri University of Science and Technology chaired a session on Natural Hazard (MS 0706) during EMI/PMC 2024 Conference.

[03/2024]: Dr. Zhu presented the paper “Integration of Physical and Statistical Knowledge in Landslide Susceptibility Characterization” during Geo-Congress 2024 Conference at Vancouver, Canada. The work is based on Dr. Khabiri’s PhD dissertation.

[02/2024]: Welcome Habib as the new Ph.D. student to join SIGMA.

[11/2023]: Dr. Zhu is orginizing a mini-symposium (MS 0706) titled “Natural Hazard Assessment with Monitoring, Modeling, and Uncertainty Quantification”, with Dr. Hui Wang from University of Dayton, and Dr. Weibing Gong from Missouri University of Science and Technology at the EMI 2024 Conference.

[08/2023]: Congratulations to Ph.D. candidate Sahand Khabiri successfully defended his dissertation entitled “Uncertainty Quantification of Landslide Susceptibility Mapping Using Bayesian Networks”.

[06/2023]: Congratulations to Amir Mohammad and Jyleem Hollins completed their ten weeks Pathway to Temple STEM High School Research Program!

[05/2023]: The laboratory website has migrated from WP to Hugo platform.