Anthony Kwan LEUNG 梁鈞

Prof. Leung is a Professor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Director of the Geotechnical Centrifuge Facility at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). His research expertise is unsaturated soil-vegetation interaction with emphasis on geotechnical engineering applications such as slope stabilization. Prof. Leung is the awardee of the 2025 Scott Sloan Best Paper Award from Computers and Geotechnics, 2022 Geotechnical Research Medal (best paper in Geotechnique), 2022 Outstanding Young Geotechnical Engineer Award of the ISSMGE, 2021 R. M. Quigley Award (best paper in Canadian Geotechnical Journal), 2019 Excellent Youth Scholar of the NSFC and 2019 Bright Spark Lecture Award of the ISSMGE. He is currently the co-Editor-in-Chief of the ISSMGE Bulletin, the President of the Hong Kong Geotechnical Society (HKGES) and General Secretary of TC106 (Unsaturated Soils) and TC107 (Tropical& Residual Soils).