Ha Bui

ARC Future Fellow and Associate Professor at Monash University

Ha H. Bui is a Professor and ARC Future Fellow in the Department of Civil Engineering at Monash University, Australia.1 2 He is also the Head of the Department of Civil Engineering and the Editor of Computers & Geotechnics (Elsevier).2 Bui's primary research interests lie in computational mechanics and material modelling, with a focus on bridging scales in modelling failure of geomaterials.1 2

Career Highlights

Received his MSc and PhD in Civil Engineering (Computational Geomechanics) from Ritsumeikan University, Japan1 2
Joined Monash University as a full-time tenured academic staff (Lecturer) in 20121
Founder of the Monash Computational Geomechanics (MCG) Lab3
Main developer and founder of GeoXPM, an innovative continuum particle-based computing software for geomechanics and geotechnical engineering1

Awards and Recognitions

2021 ALERT Research Medal awarded by The Alliance of Laboratories in Europe for Education, Research and Technology (ALERT Geomaterials)1 2
ARC Future Fellowship Award from the Australian Research Council1 2
JSPS Fellowship Award from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science1 2

Research Focus

Bui's research aims to develop "balanced" computational tools to solve real-life engineering applications, focusing on:

Bridging scales in modelling localised failure of engineering materials
Advancing mathematical models for multi-physics problems in geomechanics
Constitutive modelling of geomaterials
Failure predictions of geomaterials
Early warning systems1 3 4

Bui serves on the editorial boards of several prestigious journals in his field and is actively involved in assessing research proposals for various national and international funding bodies.1 2