Pin Zhang is a visiting researcher in the Oxford FOCUS group and a PhD candidate from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Before that, he received his Master’s degree at Hunan University and was awarded ‘outstanding graduate’ and ‘outstanding thesis’.

His research interests include machine learning-based modelling for soil mechanics and geotechnical engineering, image-based particle reconstruction and morphology identification, and in-situ investigation of soil-structure interaction (tunnel, pile, etc.).