
מר תומר גנס-אור
Tomer Gans-Or is a lecturer in the Department of Structural Engineering at SCE – Sami Shamoon College of Engineering. He holds B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees and is awaiting formal approval of his Ph.D., all from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. His research focuses on developing numerical methods, machine learning algorithms, and optimization procedures to investigate fundamental problems in geotechnical engineering. He teaches soil mechanics, foundation design, strength of materials, and structural stability
קורות חיים
השכלה
2022-2026 Ph.D. in Geotechnical Engineering, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel. Dissertation title: Lateral Resistance of Piles in Frictional Soils. Adviser: Dr. Shmulik Pinkert.
2021-2022 M.Sc. degree in Structural Engineering and Geotechnical Engineering, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel. Dissertation title: Limit Equilibrium Solution for Laterally Loaded Piles in Cohesive Soils. Adviser: Dr. Shmulik Pinkert.
2017-2021 B.Sc. degree (cum laude) in structural engineering, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel.
תחומי מחקר
Development of computational methods based on machine learning and artificial intelligence to investigate fundamental problems in geomechanics
Evaluation of large language model (LLM) performance in geomechanical applications
פרסומים
Gans-Or, T., Pinkert, S. The influence of fine content on ultimate lateral pile capacity. In: Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ICSMGE 2026), Vienna, Austria, pp. 4229–4232, 2026. https://doi.org/10.53243/ICSMGE2026-284
Gans-Or, T., Pinkert, S. Limit Equilibrium Solution for Lateral Pile Capacity in Cohesive Soil. In: Geotechnical Engineering Challenges to Meet Current and Emerging Needs of Society, Proceedings of ECSMGE 2024, Lisbon, Portugal, Taylor & Francis Group, pp. 492–496, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003431749-69
Gans-Or, T., and Pinkert, S., Implementing the Slice Method to Evaluate Lateral Pile Capacity in Cohesive Soil, International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics, Vol. 47, pp. 3005–3017, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1002/nag.3609
קורסים
Soil mechanics 2
Strength of materials 2
Foundations design
Introduction to Structural Stability







