Biography
Dr. Shunde Yin, PEng, Professor
Dr. Shunde Yin is a full Professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Waterloo and a Professional Engineer registered with the Professional Engineers Ontario (PEO). Previously, he was an Associate Professor of Petroleum Engineering at the University of Wyoming, USA. He received the Ph.D. degree from the University of Waterloo, the M.Sc. degree from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the B.Sc. degree from Shijiazhuang Tiedao University. He serves on the editorial boards of several prestigious journals, such as Petroleum, Mining, and Clean Technologies. He also serves on the committees of several professional organizations, such as the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering (CSCE) and the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). The research focuses of Dr. Yin and his research group include coupled thermal, hydraulic, mechanical, and chemical phenomena related to infrastructure, carbon neutrality, and renewable energy. His recent interests are the use mobile sensing and geospatial information technology for urban infrastructure modeling, BIM, assessment of renewable energy potential as well as monitoring of renewable energy infrastructure. He is currently an Associate Editor of the ASCE Journal of Energy Engineering and a Fellow of 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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