About GEUS 2026

The rapid development of underground infrastructure and deep geotechnical engineering has created new scientific and technological challenges in geomechanics, engineering geology, underground systems, and computational analysis. Advances in numerical simulation, intelligent sensing, artificial intelligence, and data-driven technologies are driving innovation in geotechnical research and supporting the safe, resilient, and sustainable development of underground infrastructure.

The 2026 International Conference on Geotechnical Engineering and Underground Space (GEUS 2026) will be held in Zhengzhou, China, from December 4–6, 2026. GEUS 2026 aims to provide an international forum for researchers, scientists, engineers, and industry professionals to present and exchange the latest advances in geotechnical engineering, geomechanics, computational geotechnics, underground systems, engineering geology, and intelligent monitoring technologies. The conference promotes interdisciplinary research integrating theoretical studies, numerical modeling, instrumentation, digital technologies, and engineering applications, fostering scientific innovation and international collaboration in geotechnical engineering and underground space.

 

Important Dates

• Full Paper Submission Date: August 20, 2026

• Early bird discount deadline: October 8, 2026

• Notification of Acceptance Date: September 20, 2026

• Final Paper Submission Date: November 20, 2026

• Conference Dates: December 4–6, 2026

 

Organizer

Host

Zhengzhou Institute of Technology

Supporter

Hunan University of Science and Technology Graphic Era Deemed to be University

 

Committee

· Conference Chairs

Prof. Pijush Samui NIT Patna, India

Assoc. Prof. Ting Li Member of the Academic Committee on Transportation Geotechnical Engineering Hunan University of Science and Technology, China

Prof. Qingnian Yang Zhengzhou Institute of Technology

· Technical Program Committee Chairs

Prof. Rajesh Rai Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi, India

Prof. Mukhtiar Ali Soomro China University of Mining and Technology, China

Assoc. Prof. Kerui Fan  Deputy Secretary-General of the Youth Working Committee, Shandong Geophysical Society Shandong University of Science and Technology, China

· Organizing Committee Chairs

Assoc. Prof. Zongtang Zhang Secretary of the Faculty Party Branch of the Geotechnical Engineering Department, Deputy Director of the Institute of Special Geotechnical and Environmental Geotechnical Engineering Hunan University of Science and Technology, China

Prof. Tabassum Naqvi Dean of Civil Engineering and Dean of Department Graphic Era Deemed to be University, India

Assoc. Prof. RINI ASNIDA ABDULLAH Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), Malaysia

· Program Committee Chairs

Prof. Dai Wang School of Civil Engineering, Zhengzhou Institute of Technology, China

Prof. Chengcai Liu Zhengzhou Institute of Technology, China

Assoc. Prof. Dong Zhou School of Civil Engineering, Zhengzhou Institute of Technology, China

· Publication Chairs

Prof. Danqing Song Recipient of the Guangdong Provincial Distinguished Young Scholar Fund Secretary-General of the International Consortium on Geo-Disaster Reduction (ICGdR) Chapter South China University of Technology, China

Prof. Nazri bin Ali Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia

Assoc. Prof. Hong Yao School of Civil Engineering, Zhengzhou Institute of Technology, China

· Technical Program Committee Members

· Prof. Yuwei Liu, Faculty Member, School of Civil Engineering, Zhengzhou Institute of Technology, China

· Assoc. Prof. Rongfang Song, Department Chair, School of Civil Engineering, Zhengzhou Institute of Technology, China

· Assoc. Prof. Jinshang Wang, Faculty Member, School of Civil Engineering, Zhengzhou Institute of Technology, China

· Assoc. Prof. Hao Wang, Faculty Member, School of Civil Engineering, Zhengzhou Institute of Technology, China

· Assoc. Prof. Zhenzhen Liu, Faculty Member, School of Civil Engineering, Zhengzhou Institute of Technology, China

· Assoc. Prof. Andri Kusbiantoro, Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia, Malaysia

· Assoc. Prof. B. Janaki Ramaiah, Indian Institute of Technology Tirupati, India

· Asst. Prof. José António Silva Carvalho Campos Matos, University of Minho, Portugal

· Asst. Prof. Andhika Sahadewa, The Bandung Institute of Technology, Indonesia

· Asst. Prof. Susanta Banerjee, National Institute of Technology Calicut, India

· Asst. Prof. Narala Gangadhara Reddy, Fiji National University, Fiji

· Lect. Haitao Xu, Department Chair, School of Civil Engineering, Zhengzhou Institute of Technology, China

· Lect. Jian Gong, Department Chair, School of Civil Engineering, Zhengzhou Institute of Technology, China

· Lect. Yingran Liu, Laboratory Director, School of Civil Engineering, Zhengzhou Institute of Technology, China

· Lect. Yafeng Zhang, Director of Academic Affairs and Research Office, School of Civil Engineering, Zhengzhou Institute of Technology, China

· Lect. Hang Zhou, Specialist, Party and Administration Office, School of Civil Engineering, Zhengzhou Institute of Technology, China

· Lect. Hongdan Zhu, Faculty Member, School of Civil Engineering, Zhengzhou Institute of Technology, China

· Lect. Kai Si, Faculty Member, School of Civil Engineering, Zhengzhou Institute of Technology, China

· Lect. Feilong Cui, Faculty Member, School of Civil Engineering, Zhengzhou Institute of Technology, China

· Lect. Feihu Wang, Faculty Member, School of Civil Engineering, Zhengzhou Institute of Technology, China

· Lect. Chi Sun, Faculty Member, School of Civil Engineering, Zhengzhou Institute of Technology, China

· Dr. Tan Tee How, Sunway University, Malaysia

· Dr. Nguyen Ba-Phu, Industrial University of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

· Dr. Jestin Jelani, National Defence University of Malaysia, Malaysia

· Dr. Marsheal Fisonga, University of Zambia,  Zambia

· Dr. Lyn Dee Goh, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia

· Dr. Lim Kar Sing, Universiti Malaysia Pahang Al-Sultan Abdullah, Malaysia

· Dr. Siringi Daniel, University of Eldoret, Kenya

· Dr. Ilya Joohari, Universiti Malaysia Perlis, Malaysia

· Dr. Sid Ali Rafa, The National Center for Integrated Studies and Research in Building (CNERIB) ,‌Algeria

· Organizing Committee Members

· Prof. Yongwei Wang, Faculty Member, School of Civil Engineering, Zhengzhou Institute of Technology, China

· Prof. Ye Luo, Faculty Member, School of Civil Engineering, Zhengzhou Institute of Technology, China

· Prof. Chunxiang Xu, Faculty Member, School of Civil Engineering, Zhengzhou Institute of Technology, China

· Prof. Jun Wang, Faculty Member, School of Civil Engineering, Zhengzhou Institute of Technology, China

· Assoc. Prof. Zengliang Wang, Hunan University of Science and Technology, China

· Assoc. Prof. Leilei Guan, Hunan University of Science and Technology, China

· Assoc. Prof. Huzaifa bin Hashim, Universiti Malaya (UM), Malaysia

· Assoc. Prof. Zhichao Li, Deputy Party Branch Secretary, School of Civil Engineering, Zhengzhou Institute of Technology, China

· Assoc. Prof. Rongfang Song, Department Chair, School of Civil Engineering, Zhengzhou Institute of Technology, China

· Asst. Prof. Muhammad Aslam, Wenzhou University of Technology, China

 

Speaker

Prof. Danqing Song Recipient of the Guangdong Provincial Distinguished Young Scholar Fund Secretary-General of the International Consortium on Geo-Disaster Reduction (ICGdR) Chapter South China University of Technology, China Professor Danqing Song is a professor and doctoral supervisor at South China University of Technology, and Deputy Director of the Office of Development Strategy and Planning. He is a recipient of the Guangdong Provincial Outstanding Youth Fund, the “Postdoctoral Innovative Talent Support Program” of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, and the “Shuimu Scholar” Program of Tsinghua University. Professor Song serves as a council member of several academic organizations, including the Redbed Engineering Slope Branch of the Chinese Society for Rock Mechanics and Engineering (CSRME), the Ground Rock Engineering Professional Committee of CSRME, the Landslide and Engineering Slope Branch of CSRME, the Underground Engineering Committee of the Guangdong Society of Civil Engineering and Architecture, and the Guangzhou Ecological Security Society. He has long been engaged in research on rock engineering geology related to slopes, landslides, tunnels, and underground caverns. His main research interests include dynamic effects of rock mass structures, dynamic disaster mechanisms of rock masses, monitoring, early warning and prevention of geological hazards, and intelligent construction of underground engineering. He has participated in numerous major projects such as the Sichuan-Tibet Railway, the Three Gorges Project, the Jiudian Gorge Dam on the upper Yellow River, Heifangtai, and the Xiangli Expressway in the middle Jinsha River, conducting stability evaluation and prevention of major landslides, high slopes, and deep-buried tunnels. He has published 99 SCI/EI papers (84 SCI papers, 15 EI papers). Two of his papers were listed as ESI Highly Cited Papers in 2020, and one was listed as a Hot Paper in 2023. As first/corresponding author, he has published 55 SCI papers (including 16 in top-tier journals) and 12 EI papers, mainly in leading journals of engineering geology and geotechnical engineering such as Engineering Geology, Landslides, Acta Geotechnica, and Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering. His total SCI citations exceed 1,200, with an h-index of 20. He has co-authored three industry/group standards, filed 36 international/invention patents, 6 utility model patents, and obtained 22 software copyrights.

Assoc. Prof. Dong Zhou Associate Dean, School of Civil Engineering Zhengzhou Institute of Technology Dong Zhou, male, holds a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering. He is an Assoc. Prof. and Sr. Eng. He serves as an external Master's Supervisor at North China University of Technology and holds the qualification of First-Class Constructor. He was selected as one of the first batch of Young Talents Program candidates at Zhengzhou Institute of Technology and has been honored as an Outstanding Teacher of the institute. Currently, he is the Associate Dean for Research of the School of Civil Engineering at Zhengzhou Institute of Technology. His main research interests include soil improvement and sponge city construction. He has been granted 3 invention patents, published 1 monograph, obtained 1 provincial-level construction method, and published over 10 academic papers. He has led and participated in more than 10 research projects.

 

Call For Papers

The topics of interest for submission include, but are not limited to:

◕ Geomechanics, Earth Science and Underground Systems

Geomechanics and rock mechanics

Soil mechanics and constitutive modeling

Geological characterization and underground environments

Underground space engineering

Tunnel engineering and underground structures

Deep foundation engineering

Ground improvement and stabilization

Underground energy storage systems

Soil–structure interaction

Sustainable underground infrastructure

◕ Computational Geotechnics and Numerical Simulation

Computational geomechanics

Numerical modeling of underground systems

Finite element and discrete element methods

Multi-scale simulation

Digital twins for underground infrastructure

AI-assisted geotechnical analysis

Machine learning applications

Big data analytics

Risk prediction models

Intelligent decision support

◕ Monitoring, Instrumentation and Smart Underground Engineering

Geotechnical monitoring

Smart sensing technologies

Fiber optic sensing

Structural health monitoring

Instrumentation and measurement

Remote sensing

IoT applications

Automation technologies

BIM/CIM integration

Safety assessment and resilience

 

 

Submission

 Please send the full paper (Word+PDF) to Submission System:

 Templates：Downloads

 

1.The submitted papers must not be under consideration elsewhere.

2..Please submit the full paper, if presentation and publication are both needed.

3.Please submit the abstract only, if you just want to make presentations.

4.Should you have any questions, or you need any materials in English, please contact us at  icgeus@163.com.

Note:

1)Both Abstract and Full Paper are welcomed. The author can make an oral presentation after the Abstract is accepted and the payment is finished.

2)All submitted articles should report original, previously unpublished research results, experimental or theoretical. Articles submitted to the conference should meet these criteria and must not be under consideration for publication elsewhere. We firmly believe that ethical conduct is the most essential virtual of any academic. Hence any act of plagiarism is a totally unacceptable academic misconduct and cannot be tolerated.

3) All submissions will be checked for reference authenticity. Please ensure each reference is verifiable via its DOI or a working link.

 

Publication

 

All papers will be reviewed by two or three experts from the committees. After a thorough review process, all accepted papers will be published in the IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science (ISSN: 1755-1315)， and will be submitted to Socpus, Google Scholar, CNKI  for indexing.

 

Note: All submitted articles should report original research results, experimental or theoretical, not previously published or under consideration for publication elsewhere. Articles submitted to the conference should meet these criteria. We firmly believe that ethical conduct is the most essential virtue of academics. Hence, any act of plagiarism or other misconduct is totally unacceptable and cannot be tolerated.

 

 

Registration

For the publication in the conference proceedings:

Items	Registration Fee
Early Bird Tickets as of October 8, 2026 Regular Registration(5-6 pages)	450 USD/ paper (5-6 pages) 3000 CNY/ paper (5-6 pages)
Regular Registration(5-6 pages)	510 USD/ paper (5-6 pages) 3400 CNY/ paper (5-6 pages)
Extra Pages (Begin at Page 7)	45 USD/ extra page 300 CNY/ extra page
Attendees without a Submission	180 USD/ person 1200 CNY/ person

Details of the attending registration: 

• Join as a Presenter: If you are only interested in giving a presentation at the conference without publishing your paper in the proceedings, you can choose to attend EIPE 2026 as a Presenter. As a presenter, you need to submit the Abstract and Title of your presentation during the registration. For further information, please contact us at: icgeus@163.com

• Join as a Listener: GEUS 2026 is an unmissable conference. It is a good chance and an effective platform for you to meet many renowned experts and researchers in the field of the latest academic research. You are welcome to attend this great event. You just need to complete the registration as a Listener before the registration deadline.

Oral Presentation Instrution:

1. Timing: a maximum of 15 minutes total, including speaking time and discussion. Please make sure your presentation is well timed. Please keep in mind that the program is full and that the speaker after you would like their allocated time available to them.

2. You can use CD or USB flash drive (memory stick), make sure you scanned viruses in your own computer. Each speaker is required to meet her/his session chair in the corresponding session rooms 10 minutes before the session starts and copy the slide file(PPT or PDF) to the computer.

3. It is suggested that you email a copy of your presentation to your personal inbox as a backup. If for some reason the files can’t be accessed from your flash drive, you will be able to download them to the computer from your email.

4. Please note that each session room will be equipped with a LCD projector, screen, point device, microphone, and a laptop with general presentation software such as Microsoft PowerPoint and Adobe Reader. Please make sure that your files are compatible and readable with our operation system by using commonly used fronts and symbols. If you plan to use your own computer, please try the connection and make sure it works before your presentation.

5. Movies: If your PowerPoint files contain movies please make sure that they are well formatted and connected to the main files.

Poster Presentation Instrution:

1. Maximum poster size is 59.4 CM wide by 84.1 CM high（A1）.

2. Posters are required to be condensed and attractive. The characters should be large enough so that they are visible from 1 meter apart.

3. Please note that during your poster session, the author should stay by your poster paper to explain and discuss your paper with visiting delegates.

Details of the registration fees:

1. Registration fees include conference proceedings, lunches, souvenirs and attending all technical sessions.

2. The registration fee does not include:  

   • Accommodation

   • Visa application fee

   • Transportation fare

3. At least one author for each accepted final paper must pre-register.

4. Completed registrations will be acknowledged by the Organizing Committee within 2-5 workdays after receiving your payment.

5. If you cannot attend the conference due to some reasons, we will post the print proceedings to you together with the payment receipt/Fapiao.

Refunds Policy:

If the participants request cancellation and refund due to personal reasons, the following refund policy applies.

* 60 days ahead of the conference: 70% of payment refund

* 30-60 days ahead of the conference: 50% of payment refund

* Within 30 days ahead of the conference: 30% of payment refund

* After conference: no refund

Cancellation and refund request must be made formally by email.

The organizing committees reserves the right to change the dates and place of the conference due to force majeure. Losses thus incurred from the force majeure events shall not be liabled and refunds policy shall not apply as well.

 

 

Progarm

The 2026 International Conference on Geotechnical Engineering and Underground Space (GEUS 2026) is scheduled to be held in Zhengzhou, China.The following information about the schedule is for your reference:

Schedule
December 4	13:00-17:00	Registration
December 5	09:00-12:00	Keynote Speeches
	12:00-14:00	Lunch
	14:00-17:30	Oral Presentations
	18:00-19:30	Banquet
December 6	09:00-18:00	Academic Investigation

 

 

Contact

Conference Secretary: Leah Zhang（Invitation code Z8525）

E-mail: icgeus@163.com

Tel:+86-13925093729(WeChat)

Sukie WhatsApp+86-19022043304

* The Secretary office of GEUS 2026 will collect contributions and finish daily organizing work. All paper review process will be completed by Program Committee Member and invited experts.

* If you have any question or inquiries, please feel free to contact us.