Team

Principal Investigator

Meet Jesse Hampton

Prof. Jesse Hampton is an Assistant Professor in the Geological Engineering program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Prior to joining the Madison faculty, Dr. Hampton spent 7 years as a scientist in the Oil and Gas industry with New England Research and Halliburton. In these roles he developed advanced geomechanics, geophysics, and petrophysics research programs and contributed to more than 19 patents and published numerous journal articles and conference papers. His most recent work focused on the characterization of both elastic properties and damage and workflows for integrating multi-scale physical properties measurements.

Prof. Hampton’s teaching duties consist of a rotation of four courses including CEE/GLE 330: Soil Mechanics, CEE/GLE 530: Seepage and Slopes, CEE/GLE 401: Nondestructive Evaluation, and CEE/GLE 474: Rock Mechanics. As an educator, Prof. Hampton aims to push students in a scaffolded and safe environment to experience and overcome science and engineering—thereby striving to create a sense of scientific curiosity and confidence among students which enables them to tackle some of the biggest challenges the planet faces. Prof. Hampton uses state-of-the-art technology in the classroom such as Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, and Mixed Reality.

Prof. Hampton is also the leader of the STRIDE Consortium at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, which brings together researchers and industry partners who see this opportunity clearly—to turn advanced sensing, physics-based models, and artificial intelligence into practical tools that reduce risk and cost throughout the life of a reservoir or engineered system.