Dr. Yang Xiao was the "China Highly Cited Scholar" for a seventh consecutive year and was awarded with one national second prize, two first awards of ministerial or provincial science and technology. He is also a three-time recipient of the Fredlund Award from the Canadian Geotechnical Society. He has published more than 170 papers in reputable journals. Dr. Xiao was the associate editor of International Journal of Geomechanics (ASCE), and Canadian Geotechnical Journal, etc., and the executive deputy Editor-in-Chief of Biogeotechnics. The research group headed by Dr. Xiao has made some achievements in the fields of bacterial-scale mechanism of bio-mineralization, grain-scale and element-scale mechanisms of bio-treated soils, constitutive theory of bio-cemented soils, and field-scale bio-treatment method.