Rui Shengjie

Biography

Dr Rui Shengjie is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the National University of Singapore (NUS). Before joining NUS, he was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellow at the Norwegian Geotechnical Institute (NGI) in Norway. Dr Rui received his PhD in Geotechnical Engineering from Zhejiang University in 2022 and his Bachelor’s degree from the China University of Geosciences (Wuhan) in 2017. Dr Rui’s research focuses on geotechnical and ocean engineering, with a particular emphasis on offshore renewable energy development and addressing complex geotechnical challenges in demanding marine environments. Dr Rui has visited many universities and presented his work at several world-leading institutions such as the University of Oxford, MIT, Imperial College London, UC Berkeley and Davis and ETH Zürich.

Qualifications

• PhD, Zhejiang University, 2022
• BEng, China University of Geosciences (Wuhan), 2017

Selected Honours & Awards

• Bright Spark Lecturer, International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE), 2025
• Best Paper Award at ASME 2024 43rd International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering (OMAE2024), 2024
• Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowships (with full mark), the European Union, 2023
• Excellent PhD Thesis Award, the Chinese Society for Rock Mechanics & Engineering (CSRME), 2022
• LIU Huixian Earthquake Engineering Scholarship Award, 2022
• Excellent PhD Thesis Award, Zhejiang University and Zhejiang Province, 2023.
• Outstanding graduate, Zhejiang University and Zhejiang Province, 2022.
• National Scholarship for Doctoral Students, Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China, 2014, 2018, 2020, 2021
• Outstanding graduate student, Zhejiang University, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021

Professional Activities

1. Visited several leading universities and delivered presentations at:
   a. University of Oxford, Imperial College London, University of Southampton, and University of Dundee (UK)
   b. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), University of California, Berkeley and Davis (USA)
   c. ETH Zürich (Switzerland), TU Delft (Netherlands), Polytechnic University of Catalonia (Spain), University of Lisbon (Portugal), BOKU Vienna (Austria), Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden),
   d. Ruhr University Bochum (Germany), University of Hannover (Germany), Hamburg University of Technology (Germany)
   e. Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) (Norway)
   f. Nanyang Technological University (NTU) (Singapore),
   g. Hong Kong Polytechnic University (China)
2. Reviewers for more than 40 journals, including Géotechnique, Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, Marine Structures, Engineering Geology, Physics of Fluids, Engineering Structures, Ocean Engineering, Applied Ocean Research
3. Visiting Researcher at the Department of Marine Technology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), 2024

Research Interests

• Offshore geotechnics, including foundation performance analyses, seabed-structure interaction, seabed erosion and trenching, soil dynamics and liquefaction
• Ocean engineering, including slender structure-seabed interaction, mooring line dynamics, mooring systems and integrated analyses for floating wind turbines
• Offshore new energy development, including offshore wind and wave energy development

Editorial Boards

• Member, Editorial board, Ocean Engineering, Elsevier, 2024- now
• Member, Editorial board, KSCE Journal of Civil Engineering, Elsevier, 2023-now
• Member, Editorial board, Frontiers in Marine Science, Frontiers, 2023- now
• Member, Editorial board, the ISSMGE International Journal of Geoengineering Case Histories, ISSMGE, 2025-now
• Guest editor of Frontiers in Marine Science, Sustainability, Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, Frontiers in Built Environment, Frontiers in Earth Science

Associated Membership

• Nominated member of (ISSMGE) TC104 Physical Modelling
• Corresponding member of (ISSMGE) TC209 Offshore Geotechnics
• Nominated member of (ISSMGE) TC213 Scour and Erosion
• Committee member of the International Association for Geological Disaster Reduction (ICGdR) TC-4
• Conference Scientific Committee of 11^th International Conference on Physical Modelling in Geotechnics (ICPMG 2026)
• Session chair at Geoshanghai International Conference 2024
• Session chair at ASME 2024 43rd International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering
• Theme Editors at 5th International Symposium on Frontiers in Offshore Geotechnics

Selected Publications
(*corresponding, #supervised)

1. Rui SJ, Wang LZ, Zhou ZF, Jostad HP, Guo Z*, 2024. Bearing performance of a novel caisson-plate gravity anchor. Geotechnique,1-35.
2. Rui SJ, Jostad HP, Zhou ZF, Wang LZ, Sævik S, Wang YF, Guo Z, 2024. Assessment of seabed trench formation based on marine sediment properties and chain-bar penetration tests. Engineering Geology, 107746.
3. Rui SJ, Zhou ZF, Gao Z, Jostad HP, Wang LZ, Xu H, Guo Z*, A review on mooring lines and anchors of floating marine structures. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 199, 114547.
4. Guo Z, Zhou ZF, Jostad HP, Wang LZ, Rui SJ*. Relationship between chain axial resistance and confining stress for South China Sea carbonate sand: an element of Canadian Geotechnical Journal, 2024.
5. Zhang ZC, Rui SJ*, Liu ZQ, Yang KJ, Sun XY, Zhang SH, Attention-based surrogate model to predict load envelope of monopile supporting offshore wind turbines. Renewable Energy, 120722.
6. Rui SJ, Zhou ZF, Jostad HP, Wang LZ, Guo Z*, Numerical prediction of 3- dimensional seabed trench profile considering the lateral movement of mooring line. Applied Ocean Research, 139, 103704.
7. Rui SJ, Wang LZ, Guo Z*, Cheng XM, Wu B, 2021. Monotonic behavior of interface shear between carbonate sands and steel. Acta Geotechnica 16, 167-187.
8. Rui SJ, Guo Z*, Si TL, Li YJ, 2020. Effect of particle shape on the liquefaction resistance of calcareous sands. Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering 137, 106302.
9. Rui SJ, Guo Z*, Wang LZ, Wang H, Zhou WJ, Inclined loading capacity of caisson anchor in South China Sea carbonate sand considering the seabed soil loss. Ocean Engineering, 260, 111790.
10. Rui SJ, Guo Z*, Wang LZ, Dou YZ, Zhou WJ, Zha X, 2022. Mobilisation mechanism and calculation method of embedded chain axial resistance in sand. Ocean engineering, 263, 112356.