Dr. Haiying Huang is an Associate Professor in the Geosystems group in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering in Georgia Institute of Technology. She obtained her B.S. in Geotechnical Engineering in 1993 from Tongji University. She received her M.S. in 1998 and Ph.D. in 1999, both in Geological Engineering from the University of Minnesota. She then worked as a senior engineer in Schlumberger in Sugar Land, Texas, before joining the faculty in Georgia Tech in 2007. She is a Thrust Lead for the DOE sponsored Engineering Frontier Research Center (EFRC) on Geo-processes in Mineral Carbon Storage (GMCS).
Dr. Huang was a member of the Board of Directors for the American Rock Mechanics Association (ARMA) from 2017 to 2023 and served as the Secretary of ARMA from 2019 to 2023. She is currently serving as the Associate Editor for Underground Space and Geomechanics and Geophysics for Geo-energy and Geo-resources (G4).
Dr. Huang’s research is in the area of rock mechanics and geomechanics, in particular, the theoretical and numerical modeling of fundamental behaviors of quasi-brittle materials, rock cutting and indentation, poroelastic contact mechanics, and the coupled multiphysics processes for water sampling and subsurface energy recovery and storage.
| Ph.D. | University of Minnesota | 1999 |
| M.S. | University of Minnesota | 1998 |
| B.S. | Tongji University | 1993 |
Dr. Huang teaches undergraduate and graduate level courses. Undergraduate courses include Statics, Dynamics, Introduction to Geotechnical Engineering, and Petroleum Geomechanics. Graduate courses include Rock Mechanics and Physical Properties and Rheology of Rocks.
- Best Paper Award, GeoShanghai International Conference, 2024
- CEE Leadership in the Use of Technology Award, 2022
- CTL Teaching with Technology Partnership Fellow, 2021
- Outstanding Faculty/Staff Award, American Environmental Engineers and Scientists, 2021
- Future Leaders of the American Rock Mechanics Association, 2012 – 2015
- Bill Schutz Junior Faculty Teaching Award, Georgia Tech/CEE, 2012
- 2009 Class of 1969 Teaching Fellow, Georgia Tech
- NSF Career Award, 2011
- He, Y., Y. Liu, M. Kim, H. Huang, C. Lu, D. Hou, and J. Luo (2025). Multiphysics modeling investigation of casing storage, wellbore transport, and formation heterogeneity effects on groundwater sampling. Water Resour. Res., 61(8), e2025WR040882.
- Nisbet, H., G. Buscarnera, J.W. Carey, M. Chen, E. Detournay, H. Huang, J. Hyman, P. Kang, Q. Kang, J. Labuz, W. Li, J. Matter, C. Neil, G. Srinivasan, M. Sweeney, V. Voller, W. Yang and H. S. Viswanathan, Carbon mineralization in fractured mafic and ultramafic rocks: A review, Rev. Geophys. 2024.
- Asem, P., E. Detournay, H. Huang and J. Labuz, Saturating A tight rock and measuring its hydromechanical response, Rock Mech. Rock Engng., 2024.
- Liu, M. and H. Huang, Master curves for poroelastic spherical indentation with step displacement loading, J. Applied Mech., 2024.
- He, Y., Q. Guo, Y. Liu, H. Huang, D. Hou and J. Luo, Multiphysics modeling investigation of wellbore storage effect and non-Darcy flow. Water Resour. Res., 60(1), 2024.
- He, Y., D. Hou, H. Huang and J. Luo, On the ideal groundwater sampling window by utilizing transition pumping period, J. Hydrol., 610, 127796, 2022.
- Liu, M. and H. Huang, Poroelastic response of spherical indentation into a half space with an impermeable surface via step displacement, J. Mech. Phys. Solids, 104546, 2021.
- Liu, M. and H. Huang, Finite element modeling of spherical indentation in a poro-elasto-plastic medium via step displacement loading, Int. J. Numer Anal. Met. Geomech., 45(10), 1347-1380, 2021.
- Sun, Y. and H. Huang, Limit equilibrium analysis of drilling mud loss into an inclined natural fracture, J. Petro. Sci. Engng., 205, 108841, 2021.
- Ma, Y. and H. Huang, Effect of shear bond failure on the strength ratio in DEM modeling of quasi-brittle materials, Acta Geotech., 1-14, 2021.
