Sheng C. Dai

Associate Professor
Group Coordinator
Georgia Mining Association Early Career Professor
Email Address
Telephone
Office Building
Mason
Office Room Number
2253
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. 

Research

Energy geotechnics, Nature inspired engineering, Flow in porous media, Geomechanics, Granular dynamics

Distinctions & Awards

2025 Early Career Researcher Award, USUCGER

2024 Emerging Leaders Program (ELP), EVPR/Georgia Tech

2023 Interdisciplinary Research Award, CEE/Georgia Tech

2023 Woodruff Academic Leadership Fellows, ME/Georgia Tech

2022 CMMI’s Game Changer Academies (CGCA), NSF

2022 Jim Pope CREATE-X Faculty Fellowship, Georgia Tech

2021 Certificate of Appreciation, Association of Environmental Engineers and Scientists

2021 Appreciation Award, Journal of Geomechanics for Energy and the Environment

2020 CAREER Award, NSF

2017 Spotlight of Research, featured in Fire in the Ice Newsletter, US Department of Energy

2014 ORISE Fellowship, US Department of Energy

2013 ORISE Fellowship, US Department of Energy

2017 Bill Schutz Junior Faculty Teaching Award, CEE/Georgia Tech

2016 Class of 1969 Teaching Fellows, Georgia Tech

2013 George F. Sowers Distinguished Graduate Student Award, Geosystems/Georgia Tech

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