In recent years, concerns are growing regarding climate change-induced disasters associated with global warming. Approaches and efforts to reduce emissions of CO2, and to implement those through collaborations with industry, government, and academia are the mottoes of our research group. Developing technologies for climate change adaptation from the Geotechnical perspectives is the urgent need of society, and our research is focused on those.

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On the other hand, the world has been experiencing large-scale earthquake-induced hazards or other natural hazards such as landslides and floods. Such natural hazards are too frequent in recent years. Developing a research methodology, which incorporates and combines these two important aspects that the present-day society is confronting (disaster mitigation and environmental protection), is, thus, one of the important goals of our research group.

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The research areas include field survey and testing, model testing and their simulations, element testing of natural and recycled materials, characterization of those materials, developing disaster mitigation systems using drones, IoT and Artificial Intelligence (AI), etc. The aim of our research is to make us best prepared for the immediate and present dangers facing the global community through geo-disaster risk mitigation.