Research interests: coupled thermal, hydraulic, mechanical and chemical phenomena
Biography
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).
Education
- PhD, Geotechnical Engineering, University of Waterloo, 2008
- M.Sc., Geotechnical Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, 2003
- B.Sc., Civil Engineering, Shijiazhuang Railway Institute, 1999
