Géotechnique (CERMES)

B122

0164153797

lina.guayacan@enpc.fr

Lina-María Guayacán-Carrillo

Research Scientist

Associate professor at École nationale des ponts et chaussées

Biography

  • 2025: HDR (accreditation to supervise research) – Monitoring – Simulation – Machine Learning alliance in tunnelling. Institut Polytechnique de Paris (IPP).
  • 2019 – Present: Research Scientist on Geomechanics,
  • 2017 – 2019: Geomechanics Engineer, French national radioactive waste management agency (Andra).
  • 2016: Ph.D. Thesis in geotechnical engineering,
  • 2013: Master degree, Mechanics of Soil, Rocks and Structures in their Environment (MSROE) – ENPC.
  • 2012:
    • Civil engineering degree – Escuela Colombiana de Ingeniería Julio Gavarito (ECI).
    • Urban systems engineering degree – Université de Technologie de Compiègne (UTC).

Research interests

  • Rock Mechanics and Tunneling.
  • Application of Machine Learning in Geotechnics and Geomechanics.
  • The Effect of Multiphysics Couplings on the Time-Dependent Behavior of Underground Structures.

Teaching

  • Structures, energy and risks, Advanced Master in the Engineering of large energy structures (GCGOE), ENPC.
  • Advanced geotechnics for energy, Advanced Master in the Engineering of large energy structures (GCGOE), ENPC.
  • Soils Mechanics, Department of Civil and Structural Engineering, ENPC.
  • AI projects:
    • Applications of Machine Learning, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, ENPC.
  • Numerical modelling projects:
    • Geomechanics and advanced geotechnics, Department of Civil and Structural Engineering, ENPC.
    • Applied Design of Geotechnical Works, Department of Civil and Structural Engineering, ENPC.

Research group

PhD students

  • Fernan Villanueva – A data-driven machine learning approach for decision-making in the context of abandoned underground mines. PhD to be defended in 2029. Main supervisor; co-supervised with Nathalie Conil.
  • Jacob Sibanda – Design and monitoring of tunnels facing energy and numerical transitions. PhD to be defended in 2028. Main supervisor; co-supervised with Jean Sulem.
  • Julien Lalanne – Constrained Generative AI for dimensionality expansion of offshore windfarms subsurface data. PhD to be defended in 2028. Co‑supervised; main supervisor: Jean‑Michel Pereira.
  • Blaise-Pascal Allo – Rock-support interaction analysis in underground works excavated in Callovo-Oxfordian claystone. PhD to be defended in 2027. Co‑supervised; main supervisor: Jean Sulem.

Former PhD students

  • Frederico Lara – Long-term behavior of drifts excavated in Callovo-Oxfordian claystone : Development of an analysis procedure for the design of drifts. PhD defended in 2024. Co‑supervised; main supervisor: Jean Sulem.
  • Alec Tristani – Enriching tunnel behavior analysis with artificial intelligence tools. PhD defended in 2024. Co‑supervised; main supervisor: Jean Sulem.
  • Tatiana Richa — Prediction of shield tunneling‑induced settlement: Database construction and machine learning approaches. PhD defended in 2023. Co‑supervised; main supervisor: Jean‑Michel Pereira.

Selected publications

  • Guayacán-Carrillo LM, Pereira JM & Sulem J (2026). Lessons Learned From Using Simple Supervised Learning Tools on Small‐Ensemble Data—Applicability to Tunnel Design and Monitoring. Int J Num & Anal Meth Geomech. doi: 10.1002/nag.70287.
  • Lara F, Jaber J, Sulem J, Armand G & Guayacán-Carrillo LM (2026). From convergence monitoring to numerical modeling: A practical engineering-oriented framework to assess the long-term behavior of drifts in Callovo-Oxfordian claystone. Comp & Geotech (submitted). Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.6302806.
  • Richa T, Guayacán-Carrillo LM, Pereira JM & Chapron G (2025). Apprentissage automatique en géotechnique : étude de cas dans le domaine des tunnels. Techniques de l’Ingénieur, v1-c231. https://doi.org/10.51257/a-v1-c231.
  • Tristani A, Guayacán-Carrillo LM & Sulem J (2024). Data-driven tools to evaluate support pressure, radial displacements and face extrusion for tunnels excavated in elastoplastic grounds. Int J Num & Anal Meth Geomech. doi: 10.1002/nag.3889.
  • Lara F, Guayacán-Carrillo LM, Sulem J, Jaber J & Armand G (2024). Time-Dependent Modeling of Supported Drifts Excavated in Callovo-Oxfordian Claystone Considering the Excavation-Induced Fractured Zone. Comp & Geotech, 179, 107030. doi: 10.1016/j.compgeo.2024.107030.
  • Tristani A, Sulem J & Guayacán-Carrillo LM (2024). Analytical solutions and back analysis of convergence measurements for deep circular tunnels. Int J Rock Mech Min Sci, 182, 105866. doi: 10.1016/j.ijrmms.2024.105866.
  • Guayacán-Carrillo LM & Sulem J (2024). Symbolic regression based prediction of anisotropic closure in deep tunnels. Comp & Geotech, 171, 106355. doi: 10.1016/j.compgeo.2024.106355.
  • Dai BL, Zhou C, Tang AM & Guayacán-Carrillo LM (2024). A bounding surface model for anisotropic and structured soils under saturated and unsaturated conditions. Comp & Geotech, 173, 106533. doi: 10.1016/j.compgeo.2024.106533.
  • Guayacán-Carrillo LM, Sulem J & Ghabezloo S (2021). Main insights from 2D/3D poroelastic analysis of tunnel excavation in low permeability anisotropic ground. Comp & Geotech, 130, 103935. doi: 10.1016/j.compgeo.2020.103935.
  • Vu MN, Guayacán-Carrillo LM & Armand G (2020). Excavation induced over pore pressure around drifts in the Callovo-Oxfordian claystone. Eur J Env Civil Eng, 0(0), pp. 1–16. doi: 10.1080/19648189.2020.1784800.
  • Guayacán-Carrillo LM, Sulem J, Seyedi DM, Ghabezloo S & Armand G (2018). Size effect on the time-dependent closure of drifts excavated in Callovo-Oxfordian claystone. Int J Geomechs, 18 (10). doi: 10.1061/(ASCE)GM.1943-5622.0001213.
  • Guayacán-Carrillo LM, Ghabezloo S, Sulem J, Seyedi DM & Armand G (2017). Effect of anisotropy and hydro-mechanical couplings on pore pressure evolution during tunnel excavation in low-permeability ground. Int J Rock Mech Min Sci, 97, pp. 1-14. doi: 10.1016/j.ijrmms.2017.02.016.
  • Guayacán-Carrillo LM, Sulem J, Seyedi DM, Ghabezloo S, Noiret A & Armand G (2017). Convergence analysis of an unsupported micro-tunnel at the Meuse/Haute-Marne underground research laboratory. In: Radioactive Waste Confinement: Clays in Natural and Engineered Barriers. Geological Society of London (GSL) Special Publications, 443, pp. 115-125. doi: 10.1144/SP443.24.
  • Guayacán-Carrillo LM, Sulem J, Seyedi DM, Ghabezloo S, Noiret A & Armand G (2016). Analysis of long-term anisotropic convergence in drifts excavated in Callovo-Oxfordian claystone. Rock Mech Rock Eng, 49(1), pp. 97-114. doi: 10.1007/s00603-015-0737-7.