Ph.D., P.E., Georgia Mining Association Early Career Professor
Geosystems Engineering,
School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
& Ocean Science and Engineering
& Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (Courtesy)
Office: Mason Building, 2253
Email: sdai6@gatech.edu
Education
PhD, MSCE, Civil Engineering (Geosystems), Georgia Tech
MS, BS, Civil Engineering, Tongji University
Research Interests
- Geomaterials characterization
- Energy geotechnics
- Subsurface geomechanics
- Advanced testing and modeling
- Bio-inspired geotechnics
- Flow in porous media
Honors and Awards
- 2024 Emerging Leaders Program, EVPR/Georgia Tech
- 2023 Interdisciplinary Research Award, CEE/Georgia Tech
- 2023 Woodruff Academic Leadership Fellow, ME/Georgia Tech
- 2022 Jim Pope CREATE-X Faculty Fellow, Georgia Tech
- 2020, NSF CAREER Award
- 2017, Bill Schutz Junior Faculty Teaching Award, CEE/Georgia Tech
- 2016, Class of 1969 Teaching Fellows, Georgia Tech
- 2013; 2014, ORISE Fellowship, NETL/DOE
- 2013, George F. Sowers Distinguished Graduate Student Award, Geosystems/Georgia Tech
Service
- Associate editor, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth
- Editorial advisor, Geomechanics for Energy and the Environment
- Task force leader, ISSMGE TC308 – Energy Geotechnics
- Advisory: Pressure Core Advisory Board, USGS, DOI; GOM2 Marine Test Advisory Committee, UT/DOE.
- Member: AGU; InterPore; ISSMGE; SEG; ASCE; Geo-Institute.