Hejintao Huang

Hejintao Huang is an assistant professor in Civil Engineering at The Cooper Union. She received her B.S. in Civil Engineering from Bucknell University in 2016 and her Ph.D. from Georgia Tech in 2023.  As part of her research, she studies the entire life cycle of waste materials at a multi-scale, ranging from micro-scale chemical and physical characterization of the waste materials to elucidate fundamental mechanisms of behavior at the particle level, through to scale-up of the mechanistic behavior, quantification of the bench-scale performance of geomaterials composed of wastes. Her research focuses on leveraging geo-environmental engineering, materials science, and environmental geochemistry to develop beneficial use options for waste materials with the goal of improving the safety, resiliency, and sustainability of geotechnical and geo-environmental infrastructure. Hejintao has also been committed to delivering the highest-quality geotechnical engineering education.