Geosystems Faculty
The following is the list of faculty associated with Geosystems Engineering.
The list is organized displaying full time tenure and tenure track faculty, research and other general faculty and faculty associates that contribute to the programs mission.
Full time Tenure and Tenure track Faculty
Assimaki,Dominic - Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Numerical methods in earthquake engineering, nonlinear dynamic soil behavior, soil-structure interaction, scattering of seismic waves in heterogeneous media, inverse problems in geophysics
Burns,Susan Elizabeth - Associate Professor
Research Interests: Geoenvironmental engineering, engineered materials, physical and chemical behavior of soils, cone penetration testing, image analysis
Frost,J. David - Director of GT Savannah and Professor
Research Interests: Dr. Frost's research interests include engineering the behavior of soils under static and dynamic loading; digital image processing and analysis in geosystems engineering; spatial information systems in subsurface hazard assessment; and performance of soil-polymeric material composite systems.
Germanovich,Leonid - Professor
Research Interests: Properties of earth and extra-terrestrial materials, rock mechanics, fracture mechnanics, micro-mechanical modeling, geophysics, applied mathematical methods, mining and petroleum engineering, biomechanics
Huang,Haiying - Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Her research interests are mainly the geomechanics aspects of drilling, reservoir stimulation and production, in particular, slurry flow, fluid injection in granular media, hydraulic fracturing, rock indentation and cutting.
Mayne,Paul W - Professor
Research Interests: In-situ testing, site characterization, geotechnical parameter identification, foundation systems, soil properties determination, geostatic stress state, ground improvement by dynamic compaction and plasma arc vitrification.
Rix,Glenn J - Professor
Research Interests: Geotechnical earthquake engineering; dynamic properties of soils; non-destructive and non-invasive methods for site and material characterization in geotechnical and transportation engineering.
Santamarina,J. Carlos - Goizueta Foundation Faculty Chair and Professor
Research Interests: Particulate materials: fundametal behavior; engineered soils. Experimental approach: experimental micro-mechanics, wave-based process monitoring, inverse problems. Applications: geotechnical engineering, mining, and energy geomechanics.
Tsai,Yi-Chang James - Associate Professor
Research Interests: Pavement/infrastructure/asset system engineering and management, Pavement technology, Information and sensor technology applications, Image processing and recognition applications, Geospatial analysis and GPS/GIS applications, Emergency response and roadway safety, Logistics and optimization