(a) fundamental research that advances the discipline, (b) applied research that benefits industry, and (c) research that informs and influences policy and government. Most of his research serves for a long-term purpose, such as to improve the understanding of the fundamental mechanism of granular materials, to provide a useful tool for water utilities to better manage their underground asset like pipelines, and to design a well-adaptive high efficient microwave equipment to enhance rock fragmentation, etc.
