2024 – present: Associate Professor - @ NCKU – Tainan (TWN)
2020 – 2024: Assistant Professor - @ NCKU – Tainan (TWN)
2018 – 2020: Research associate - @ UNSW – Canberra (AUS)
Field of Research (FoR): Transonics, Hypersonics, Fluid-Structure Interactions, Flutter, Shock-wave – Boundary Layer Interactions, Boundary Layer Transition, Hypersonic Testing, Transonic testing.
EDUCATION (PhD, MSc, BEng)
2014-2018, PhD Thesis: “Hypersonic Fluid-Structure Interaction on a Cantilevered Plate with Shock Impingement” (Aerospace Engineering @ UNSW Canberra, AUS)
Student distinctions: Best research poster – 2018 FSI Workshop @ UNSW Canberra; Best presentation – 2017 Annual Review for the Air Force Office for Scientific Research (AFOSR) High Speed Aerodynamics Portfolio @ NASA Langley; Best student paper finalist – Category: Structures and Materials 7th EUCASS 2017
2010-2013: Master Thesis: “VEGA: Solid propellant Ignition Transient” (Aerospace Engineering @ Sapienza Univ. of Rome, ITA)
FUNDING HISTORY IN THE LAST 5 YEARS
• 2025 (1 year) 黃捷楷,楊松霈 ,邱丞玄,黃粲和/ 燃油探棒設計與存量運算電路模擬 / 漢翔航空工業股份有限公司 (NT$ 1980k, 2025/05/30 ~ 2026/05/30)
• 2024 (1 year) 黃捷楷/ 勇鷹高教機燃油電容探棒特性分析 / 漢翔航空工業股份有限公司 (NT$ 670k, 2024/08/29 ~ 2024/11/14)
• 2024 (1 year) Currao / Transonic flutter experiment combined with control surface actuation / National Science and Technology Council NSTC 113-221-E-006-187- (NT$ 954k, 113/08/01 ~ 114/07/31)
• 2022 (1 year) Currao / Drag Reduction Techniques for Golf Driver Clubs / Advanced International MultiTech Co., Ltd. (NT$ 300k)
• 2021 (2 years) Currao et al. / Transonic Flutter of Hypersonic Skin-Panels / Air-force Office of Scientific Research USAF AFOSR FA2386-21-1-4118 (US$ 120k)
• 2021 (3 years) Currao / Experiments and Numerical Simulation for Transonic Fluid-Structure Interactions / Ministry of science and Technology MOST 110-222-E-006-002-MY3 (NT$ 3611k)
• 2019 (3 years) Neely, Buttsworth, Young, Jahn, Currao, Zander / Unit Cases to `Investigate Hypersonic Fluid-Structure Interactions / Air-force Office of Scientific Research USAF AFOSR FA2386-19-1-4027 (US$730k)
EVENT ORGANIZER
HSWT – October 2025 (Tainan) – Conference President (NCKU, Taiwan)
AASRC – December 2024 (Tainan) – Organizing Committee (NCKU, Taiwan)
ISSA – August 2023 (Tainan) – Organizing Committee (NCKU, Taiwan)