Biography
Dr. Shunde Yin, PEng, Associate Professor
Dr. Shunde Yin is an Associate Professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Waterloo and the Center for Pavement and Transportation Technology (CPATT). He received his Ph.D. from the University of Waterloo in Geotechnical Engineering and joined the University of Wyoming in 2008 as an Assistant Professor of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering. Prior to that, Dr. Yin obtained his B.Sc. in Civil Engineering from Shijiazhuang Railway Institute and worked as a railroad engineer at the China Railway Design and Survey Institute Wuhan in 1999, and he completed his M.Sc. in Geotechnical Engineering from the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Rock and Soil Mechanics Wuhan in 2003. He serves on a number of editorial boards of journals such as Future Transportation, Petroleum, and Mining; he also serves on professional committees for organizations such as the Transportation Association of Canada (TAC), the American Railway Engineering and Maintenance-of-Way Association (AREMA) and the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE).
Teaching and Research Interests
Dr. Yin has taught several courses in the civil engineering programs, including CIVE 224 - Probability and Statistics, CIVE 353 - Geotechnical Engineering I, CIVE 611 - Finite Element Analysis, CIVE 653 - Numerical Methods in Geomechanics, and CIVE 750 - Topics in Geotechnical Engineering.
Dr. Yin and his research group focus on field monitoring, laboratory testing and numerical modeling of coupled thermal, hydraulic, mechanical, and chemical processes as well as in-situ stress characterization, surveillance and manipulation. Recently, his research interests also include the use of advanced remote sensing technologies (e.g., InSAR, DInSAT, LiDAR, optical imaging and multi-/hyper-spectral scanning sensors) for monitoring geohazards (e.g., landslides in mountainous areas), detecting, monitoring, and analyzing of the surface subsidence, mapping ground deformation, and use of thermal infrared remote sensing for mapping the surface expressions of geothermal activity as applied to the exploration for new geothermal energy resources.
Dr. Yin is currently accepting PhD students dedicated to numerical simulation among frost heave and thaw settlement in pavement and railway engineering, the ground surface movement in underground CH4/CO2/H2 storage, underground excavation induced ground movement, subsurface faulting induced ground movement, geothermal extraction induced ground movement and temperature change, rainfall induced slope movement/sliding, aiming at exploring critical subsurface information from ground surface monitoring facilitated by advanced remote sensing technologies, in collaboration with Prof. Jonathan Li at the Department of Geography and Environmental Management at the University of Waterloo.
Graduate Studies
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