Yinghui Tian is a Professor working at the Department of Infrastructure Engineering, the University of Melbourne. Supported by the prestigious Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellowship.

His research focuses on Offshore Geotechnics including

(1) providing geotechnical solutions to secure and optimise offshore renewable energy generation, storage, and transportation;

(2) developing coastal infrastructure adaptation strategies to address the impacts of climate change; and

(3) innovating offshore foundations and anchoring systems to support deep-water offshore oil and gas development and decommissioning.

He has published 3 refereed book chapters, 116 peer-reviewed journal articles, 62 conference papers, 25 technical reports directly adopted in industry projects and 4 proprietary software packages.