Members

Education

• Ph.D. in Civil Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2012

• M.S. in Civil Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2008

• B.S. in Civil Engineering, Hanyang Univeristy, Seoul, South Korea, 2006

Employment

• Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Western New England University, 2019 ~ current

• Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Western New England University, 2013 ~ 2019

• Postdoc, RailTEC and CEE, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2012~2013

• Field Artillery Surveyor, 30th Infantry Division, 2002~2004

Graduate Researchers

• Cy Riding (M.S. in CE)

• Nasir Hariri (co-advisor: M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Oct 15')

  • Master's Thesis "Experimental Study of NiTi Wire Arrangements as Servo-Bibomimetic for Facial Muscles" (the recipient of the 1st place for the master’s student track 3 competition at the ASME 2015 International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition IMECE15 November 13-19, 2015, Houston, Texas).

Undergraduate Researchers

• Isaias Colombani (B.S. in CE)

• Brian J. Wodecki (B.S. May 2015)

Visiting Scholar

• Professor Seungyong Lee, Ph.D. (Jan. 2015~ Jan. 2016)