Chris Lai

Dr. Chris Chung-Kei Lai is an assistant professor in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology ( department profile). He is also a guest scientist of the Extreme Fluids Team, physics division P-23, at Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA.

His expertise is on the design and control of the transport/exchange of contaminants and nutrients in water/air bodies and across the interface between the two. This transport/exchange is heavily governed by the turbulence presence inside the fluid. His group uses and develops experimental methods to study the dynamic interplay between turbulent flows and their surroundings and continuum mechanics for the development of predictive models of turbulence.

Interests

• Experimental Fluid Mechanics
• Turbulent Mixing and Transport
• Turbulence Theory and Modeling

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Texas A&M University (2012 — 2015)
• Master of Philosophy (MPhil) The University of Hong Kong (2007 — 2009)
• Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) The University of Hong Kong (2004 — 2007)

Companies

• Assistant Professor Georgia Institute of Technology (2019)
• Postdoctoral Research Associate Los Alamos National Laboratory (2016 — 2019)
• Postdoctoral Research Associate Texas A&M University (2016 — 2016)
• Research Assistant The University of Hong Kong (2010 — 2012)