Dr. Dai earned his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in civil engineering from Tongji University and Georgia Institute of Technology. He was then supported by ORISE fellowship to work at the National Energy Technology Laboratory of U.S. Department of Energy. In August 2015, he returned to Georgia Tech as a faculty in the geosystems engineering group and leads the Subsurface Processes Research Laboratory. He teaches soil behavior, energy geotechnics, and dynamic analyses in geotechnical engineering at Georgia Tech. Dai’s research group explores the scientific foundations of geomaterial behavior at elevated pressure and temperature conditions through wave characterization, imaging techniques, and innovative device development.