LV.6
STAGE 01
ABOUT ME
🍒 100 PTSI'm a Privatdozent and Senior Scientist at BOKU University, Vienna, and Deputy Head of the Institute of Geotechnical Engineering. I spent a decade designing tunnels — including the Koralm and Filder projects — before pivoting to the frontier where machine learning meets soil. In 2025 I founded deepsoil, BOKU's AI spin-off, to bring geotechnical intelligence to industry. Mission: smarter, safer infrastructure through AI.
★ HIGH SCORES ★
RANKNAMESCORE
1ST
PUBLICATIONS
47
2ND
CITATIONS
460+
3RD
H-INDEX
10
4TH
YEARS IN THE GAME
15+
STAGE 02
THE GHOSTS OF MY RESEARCH
🍓 300 PTSML IN GEOTECHNICS
Deep learning for slope stability, tunnel face analysis and reliability — surrogate models that turn week-long simulations into seconds.
COMPUTER VISION
CNNs that read soil: particle size distributions from close-range and smartphone images — the GRAI3 series.
REINFORCEMENT LEARNING
RL agents that design NATM tunnels, locate non-circular critical slip surfaces, and steer TBM face support pressure.
PHYSICAL MODELLING
Centrifuge campaigns — tunnel face stability, cross passages, levees, pile bleeding — feeding real data into the AI.
LLMS & AUTOMATION
Large language models for automated grading in geotechnics, AI-assisted teaching, and open datasets for the community.
STAGE 03
LEVEL MAP
🍊 500 PTSLV.5
LV.4
2024 → NOW
IN PROGRESSPRIVATDOZENT (HABILITATION)
4 COURSES · 6+ STUDENTS SUPERVISED
LV.3
LV.2
LV.1
2014 — 2020
LEVEL CLEARTUNNEL DESIGN PROJECT MANAGER
KORALM TUNNEL KAT3 · AUSTRIA
STAGE 04
HIGH SCORE TABLE
🍎 700 PTSNEW!2026JUST OUT
GRAI3: Generalizable soil particle size distribution from smartphone images
Computers and Geotechnics 199, 108362 (2026)
3CITES2026
Strength of a cement-improved clay and a machine learning evaluation of interactions between observed mechanical behaviours
Geoscience Frontiers, 102293 (2026)
1CITES2026
Hydrological controls on the kinematic behaviour of two slow-moving landslides
Geotechnical and Geological Engineering 44(1), 58 (2026)
NEW!2026JUST OUT
Centrifuge testing of cross passages in shallow tunnels: challenges and lessons learned
International Journal of Physical Modelling in Geotechnics (2026)
2CITES2025
Large language models for automated grading in geotechnics
Machine Learning and Data Science in Geotechnics 1(1), 124-144 (2025)
21CITES2025
Unveiling the role of saturation and displacement rate in the transition from slow movement to catastrophic failure in landslides
Engineering Geology 352, 108042 (2025)
17CITES2025
Convolutional neural network prediction of the particle size distribution of soil from close-range images
Soils and Foundations 65(1), 101575 (2025)
6CITES2025
Three-dimensional parametric analyses of cross-passages in shallow tunnels within noncohesive soils
Transportation Infrastructure Geotechnology 12(4), 118 (2025)
46CITES2023
Convolutional neural networks prediction of the factor of safety of random layered slopes by the strength reduction method
Acta Geotechnica 18(6), 3391-3402 (2023)
22CITES2023
Reinforcement learning for the face support pressure of tunnel boring machines
Geosciences 13(3), 82 (2023)
111CITES2022
Time-dependent reliability analysis of unsaturated slopes under rapid drawdown with intelligent surrogate models
Acta Geotechnica 17(4), 1071-1096 (2022)
30CITES2022
The application of reinforcement learning to NATM tunnel design
Underground Space 7(6), 990-1002 (2022)
101CITES2015
Face stability of shallow tunnels in partially saturated soil: centrifuge testing and numerical analysis
Géotechnique 65(6), 454-467 (2015)
STAGE 05
POWER-UPS
🍈 1000 PTSPROGRAMMING
PYTHON
FORTRAN
MATLAB
ML / AI FRAMEWORKS
PYTORCH
TENSORFLOW
KERAS
SCIKIT-LEARN
TOOLS & DEPLOYMENT
STREAMLIT
GRADIO
DOCKER
GIT
ENGINEERING SOFTWARE
FLAC3D
RS2
RFEM
SOFISTIK
AUTOCAD
HUMAN LANGUAGES
ITALIAN (NATIVE)
ENGLISH (C1)
GERMAN (C1)
SPANISH (C1)
STAGE 06
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💎 5000 PTSCONTINUE? 9
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