Education
- Ph.D. in Civil Engineering, University of South Carolina, 2017-2021
- M.Eng. in Civil Engineering, Stevens Institute of Technology, 2014 - 2016
- B.S. in Civil Engineering,, Zhengzhou University, 2010 - 2014
Employment History
- Research Assistant Professor, University of South Carolina, Nov 2023 - Present
- Postdoctoral Fellow, University of South Carolina, September 2021 - Oct 2023
- Graduate Research Assistant, University of South Carolina, January 2017 - August 2021
- Research Teaching Assistant, Stevens Institute of Technology, August 2016 - December 2016
Awards and Honors
- 2024, IOP Publishing Top Cited Paper Award North America
- 2022, ASCE Outstanding Reviewer Award
- 2022, Adrian Pollock Student Award, AEWG-63 – The Acoustic Emission Working Group Annual Meeting
- 2021, M. Bert Storey Graduate Fellowship, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of South Carolina
- 2020, Outstanding Paper Award, CAMX – The Composites and Advanced Materials Expo. CAMX Conference Proceedings
Professional Services
- Editorial board:
- Associate Editor, ASCE Journal of Structural Design and Construction Practice
- Editorial Board, ASTM Journal of Testing and Evaluation
- Editorial Board, Civil Engineering Journal
- Youth Editorial Board, Journal of Intelligent Construction
- Young Academic Editor, Journal of Traffic and Transportation Engineering
- Early Career Editorial Board, Structural Durability & Health Monitoring
- Guest Editor, Developments in the Built Environment
- Guest Editor, Advances in Structural Engineering
- Guest Editor, Measurement Science and Technology
- Guest Editor, Journal of Engineered Fibers and Fabrics
- Conference committee:
- Co-chair of special session: Structural Health Monitoring of Intelligent Civil Infrastructure using Fiber Optic Sensing, SHMII-13
- Co-chair of mini symposia: Inverse problems and risk analysis for system diagnostics and damage detection in structural health monitoring, EMI 2025
- Member:
- Member of American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
- Member of Acoustic Emission Working Group (AEWG)
- Reviewer:
- ASCE Journal of Structural Design and Construction Practice
- Structural Health Monitoring-SAGE
- Construction and Building Materials
- IEEE Sensor Journal
- Expert System with Applications
- Neurocomputing
- Engineering Structures
- Structures
- Structural Concrete
- Probabilistic Engineering Mechanics
- Transportation Research Record
- Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting
- Journal of Supercomputing
- Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering-ASCE
- Journal of Applied Science and Engineering
