Ming Cai

Full Professor, Bharti School of Engineering & Computation

About Ming

Dr. Cai is a Full Professor in Laurentian University's School of Engineering and holds a position as Geomechanics Research Chair. Dr. Cai holds Bachelor and Master degrees from Tsinghua University in China and a Ph.D degree from the University of Tokyo in Japan. Prior to joining Laurentian, he worked for Mansour Group Inc., MIRARCO, Tokyo Electric Power Services Ltd., and Tsinghua University and had over 30 years’ research, education, and industry experience. He has a wide variety of interests in rock mechanics and rock engineering, and has made exceptional technical and scientific contributions to many topics, including constitutive modeling of rock masses, rock mass characterization, rock support, interpretation of AE and microseismic monitoring data, and rock failure process simulation, etc. Dr. Cai is the author/co-author of more than 260 scientific publications. Dr. Cai is a registered professional engineer in Ontario, Canada.

Education

  • Ph.D. (The University of Tokyo)
  • M.A.Sc. (Tsinghua)
  • B.A.Sc. (Tsinghua)

Academic Appointments

Editorial Board Member of

International Journal of Georesources and Environment (IJGE)

Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology

Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering

Canadian Geotechnical Journal

Journal of Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering

Geohazard Mechanics

Rock Mechanics Bulletin

Deep Resources Engineering (Associate Editor)

Research

  •          Rock support in burst-prone grounds
  •          Rock failure process simulation
  •          Brittle rock failure mechanism
  •          Mining induced seismicity
  •          Rock mass characterization
  •          Constitutive modeling of jointed rock masses
  •          Design of underground excavations
  •          Tunnel stability
  •          Numerical simulation methods (continuum, discontinuum, and hybrid methods)



Awards

  • NSERC Discovery grant, Alliance grant, and multiple CRD grants
  • Industry grants
  • ISRM Congress best paper award
  • John A. Franklin Award (2017)
  • CIM Rock Mechanics Award (2025)

Publications

  • Author and co-author of more than 260 publications
  • See the list at Google Scholar   https://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=kHg_k5kAAAAJ&hl=en

 

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