Liang Chao, a master's supervisor and a National Outstanding Postdoctoral Fellow in Innovation and Entrepreneurship, has received funding from the Tianjin Postdoctoral Innovation Position Talent Program. He is mainly engaged in research on pile-soil interaction in marine engineering. He has served as principal investigator for one Youth Fund project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, two sub-projects of the National Key R&D Program of China, one Youth Project of the Tianjin Natural Science Foundation, one open research project of a State Key Laboratory, one open research project of an industry key laboratory of the Ministry of Transport, and six commissioned engineering projects. He has published 42 papers, including 18 as first or corresponding author, and has obtained 10 authorized patents and software copyrights. His research achievements have won one First Prize of the Tianjin Science and Technology Progress Award (ranked 12th), one Second Prize of the Tianjin Science and Technology Progress Award (ranked 5th), one Electric Power Innovation Award of the China Electricity Council (ranked 5th), and one Bronze Award in the National Postdoctoral Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition (ranked 2nd). He has also received four provincial and ministerial-level awards, including the Tianjin Science and Technology Progress Award, among which two are Second Prizes (ranked 5th and 8th) and two are Third Prizes (ranked 3rd and 5th).