CEE faculty members appointed to endowed positions
15 May 2024
Faculty members Sheng Dai and Jennifer Kaiser have been selected for appointments to endowed positions within the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering.
Associate Professor
Group Coordinator
Georgia Mining Association Early Career Professor
Biography
Sheng Dai, Ph.D., P.E., is an associate professor and group coordinator in Geosystems Engineering at Georgia Tech. He earned his BS, MS, and Ph.D. degrees from Tongji U and Georgia Tech, and worked at the National Energy Technology Laboratory of the U.S. Department of Energy as an ORISE postdoc fellow. He is currently the Georgia Mining Association Early Career Professor at the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, a faculty member in the Ocean Science and Engineering, and holds a courtesy appointment at the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at Georgia Tech.
Dr. Dai's group addresses the resilience and sustainability in energy and the natural environment through studying energy geotechnics and nature inspired engineering. His research has been funded by federal funding agencies (DOE, NSF, NASA, DOT), national labs, and industry. He is an associated editor of the Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, an editorial advisor of Geomechanics for Energy and Environment, and serves on the Pressure Core Advisory Board for the U.S. Geological Survey, the GOM2 Marine Test Technical Advisory Committee for UT/DOE, the National Gas Hydrate Program for NETL, and the Task Force Leader of TC308 Energy Geotechnics of ISSMGE.
Dr. Dai's research, teaching, and service have been recognized by the NSF CAREER award, the NSF CMMI's Game Changer Academies, the ORISE Fellowship, and at Georgia Tech, the Emerging Leaders Program, CEE Interdisciplinary Research Award, Woodfruff Academic Leadership Fellow, Jim Pope CREATE-X Faculty Fellow, CEE Bill Schutz Junior Faculty Teaching Award, and the Class of 1969 Teaching Fellows.
Research
Energy geotechnics, Nature inspired engineering, Flow in porous media, Geomechanics, Granular dynamics
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