Ming Cai

Professor

Engineering
Sciences and Engineering

705.675.1151 ext. 5099

Sudbury Campus

Dr. Cai is Fulll Professor in Laurentian University's School of Engineering and holds a position as Geomechanics Research Chair. Dr. Cai holds Bachelor and Master degrees from Tsinghua University in China and a Ph.D degree from the University of Tokyo in Japan. Prior to joining Laurentian, he worked for Mansour Group Inc., MIRARCO, Tokyo Electric Power Services Ltd., and Tsinghua University and had over 20 years’ research, education, and industry experience. He has a wide variety of interests in rock mechanics and rock engineering, and has made exceptional technical and scientific contributions to many topics, including constitutive modeling of rock masses, rock mass characterization, rock support, interpretation of AE and microseismic monitoring data, and rock failure process simulation, etc. Dr. Cai is the author/co-author of more than 120 scientific publications.