Dr. Greg You
Senior Lecturer, Mining Engineering
Campus
Biography
Dr Greg Guanlin You is a senior lecturer with over 20 years of experience in academia and the resources industry. His expertise includes slope stability, ground control, geotechnical engineering and geotechnical risk assessment in mining and civil infrastructure. He has contributed to projects in both open-cut and underground mining, with a focus on improving safety, reliability, and performance in complex ground conditions.
Greg’s research combines field data, analytical methods and numerical modelling to better understand rock behaviour under dynamic and static loading. His current work addresses slope stability, blasting vibration and geotechnical hazards, with applications in mining geomechanics and infrastructure design.
He has published extensively in leading international journals and works closely with industry on applied research and practical problem-solving. He is the author of Mining Project Value Optimization (Springer, 2025) and Mining Geotechnical Engineering (CRC Press, 2026). He also co-authored two Chinese national standards for HDPE and LLDPE geomembranes used in landfill engineering.
Greg is available for industry collaboration, consulting, postgraduate supervision and media commentary in geotechnical engineering, mining, and ground stability.
Fields of research
- Geomechanics and resources geotechnical engineering
- Mining engineering
More about Greg
Qualifications
- Graduate Certificate of Education in Tertiary Education, Federation University Australia
- Doctor of Engineering (Geotechnical), Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand
- Master of Engineering (Mining), Wuhan Institute of Iron & Steel Technology, China
- Bachelor of Engineering (Mining), Wuhan Institute of Chemical Technology, China
Areas of expertise
Greg's research specialises in the geotechnical and geoenvironmental impacts of mining, groundwater extraction and landfill operations. His work emphasises the translation of research into industry practice, delivering solutions that enhance operational productivity, improve safety and support sustainable resource development.
Current
- PhD student, Federation University, ‘Effect of Cable Bolt on the Stope Stability and Economy of Narrow Vein Gold Mine’, principal supervisor.
- PhD student, Federation University, ‘The Mechanisms of Internal Mud Rush Within the Mt Lyell Sublevel Cave and the Efficacy of Implemented Controls’, principal supervisor.
- PhD student, Federation University, ‘A Comparison between a Compliance Based Constitutive Formulation and a Cosserat Formulation’, associate supervisor.
Past
- PhD student, Federation University, ‘Development of scaled boundary finite element method for slope stability analysis’, associate supervisor.
- PhD student, Federation University, ‘Bucket elevator design for vertical lift ore haulage of 1000 metres in a single lift Supervisors’, associate supervisor.
- PhD student, Federation University, ‘Three-dimensional numerical study on the batter instability mechanism of Maddingley Brown Coal Open Pit, Victoria, Australia using PLAXIS 3D’, principal supervisor.
- PhD student, Federation University, ‘Reducing Climate Change Related Fugitive Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Operational Longwall Coal Mines’, associate supervisor.
- PhD student, Federation University, ‘Complex Rock Slope Stability in Large Scale Open Cut Mine: Mechanism and Evaluation Supervisors’, principal supervisor.
- Mining engineering
- Engineering
Future Regions Research Centre (FRRC)
- Publications
Research on non-stationary blasting vibration prediction models and analysis of equal-interval delay for vibration reduction
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1007/s10064-025-04718-w