• Ning was granted a research fund from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) on Aug 16, 2018.
• Ning relocated to Zhejiang University, China, and joined the College of Civil Engineering and Architecture as "100-Talents Program" Professor on June 1, 2018.
• One of our earliest papers won 2018 Outstanding Paper Award from Computers and Geotechnics, Elsevier.

• Ning received Reviewer Certificate from International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, Wiley.

• Ning delivered the OGG (Ottawa Geotechnical Group) luncheon talk on Computational Multiscale Modelling of Granular Materials on Nov 14, 2017.
• Ning chaired the session Soil Mechanics - Numerical Methods in GeoOttawa on Oct 3, 2017.
• Premnath Selvarajah joined the lab as a PhD student in Sep 2017. He will be co-supervised by Prof. Sivathayalan and Ning. Welcome ​Premnath!
• Ning received a Discovery Grant from Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) on Apr 12, 2017.
• Ning joined Carleton University as Assistant Professor in geotechnical engineering on Sep 15, 2016.