Dr. Yuxiang Cheng, Associate Professor (promoted through exceptional merit) and Tang Aoqing Young Scholar at Jilin University, has secured over 10 national and provincial/ministerial-level research projects in recent years. He has published more than 20 SCI-indexed papers and received four provincial/ministerial-level awards as the first completer. His research in energy geotechnical engineering focuses on: Deep geothermal development: Exploration and development of hot dry rock (HDR) resources, EGS reservoir stimulation (hydraulic fracturing), induced seismicity prediction and analysis, engineering dynamic assessment, and THCM (thermo-hydro-chemo-mechanical) coupled numerical simulations; evaluation and monitoring of dynamic variations in geothermal reserves (including HDR). Shallow geothermal innovation: Novel theories/methods/technologies for shallow geothermal measurement, development of in-situ shallow geothermal measurement equipment, and geothermal heat pump system applications. Geothermal energy utilization: Rock thermomechanical properties, heat-mass transfer mechanisms in reservoirs, and thermal storage capacity analysis. CO₂ geological storage: Theoretical frameworks, experimental validation, methodological advancements, and demonstration applications of carbon sequestration technologies.