# RESEARCH INTERESTS & BACKGROUND:• Numerical & Experimental methods.• Rock Mechanics & Rock Engineering.• Wellbore Stability & Reservoir Geomechanics.• Tunneling & Underground Spaces.• Surface Settlement & Slope Stability• Geotechnical Engineering & Soil Improvement Methods.• Mine Design & Exploitation.# RELEVANT SKILLS & ABILITIES: • Programming: MATLAB, Python, C.• Artificial Intelligence: applying Neural Networks and Deep Learning algorithms for geotechnical and petrophysical data analysis.• Numerical Methods: Finite Element Method (FEM), Finite Difference Method (FDM), Discrete Element Method (DEM).• Geotechnical Software: Flac2D, Flac3D, Phase2, UDEC, 3DEC, Rocklab, Dips, Plaxis, Safe.• Other Software: Abaqus, AutoCAD, Geolog, Adobe Photoshop, Microsoft Office, SPSS.• Site Investigation and Laboratory Skills: Site Investigation and Laboratory Skills: blasting and drilling operations, soil consolidation Methods, geophysical experiments, sampling and grain size analysis, rock and soil classification systems, tests of penetration, permeability, pressure, strength, and deformability on rock and soil (UCS, UTS, triaxial, Brazilian, shear, compaction, Atterberg, SPT, CPT), soil improvement methods (driving pile, bored pile, deep soil mixing, jet grouting, sand column, micropile, nailing, consolidation injection), pile foundation tests (Integrity, dynamic and static compressive tensile/lateral loading).