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Chris Chungkei Lai, a native of Hong Kong, received his Bachelor of Engineering and Master of Philosophy degrees in Civil Engineering from the University of Hong Kong. He pursued his PhD research in oil spill modeling at Texas A&M University, where he was awarded his degree in December 2015. Between 2016 and 2019, he worked as a postdoctoral research associate with the Extreme Fluids Team at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. In November 2019, Chris joined the Georgia Institute of Technology as an assistant professor in the Water Resources group. His research focuses on understanding the role of fluid turbulence in environmental processes and their applications. His prior work includes marine outfall designs for treated domestic wastewater and brine discharges from desalination plants, modeling accidental oil spills for disaster management, and studying the influence of large fluid density gradients on turbulent flows relevant to inertial confinement fusion. His current research interests are centered on turbulence mediation in mass transport and exchange within coastal vegetation, mixing of flow structures in the hyporheic zone, and mixing within stratified water bodies.
Los Alamos National Laboratory • New Mexico
Conducted research on fluid turbulence related to environmental applications.
Georgia Institute of Technology • Atlanta, GA
Research focus on fluid turbulence and its environmental applications.
Department of Computer Science: GRE scores are optional for Fall 2026.