About
Wenyang Zhang
Research Associate
Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC)
10100 Burnet Rd, University of Texas, Austin
Austin, Texas 78758
Email: wzhang@tacc.utexas.edu
Appointments
Research Associate, Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC), University of Texas, Austin, Oct. 2021 - Present
High Performance Computing Group
Postdoctoral Scholar, University of California, Los Angeles, Sep. 2019 - Sep. 2021
Advisors: Prof. Ertugrul Taciroglu and Prof. Yousef Bozorgnia
Education
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, Civil Engineering, Jul. 2015 - Aug. 2019
Major: Structural mechanics; Minor: Dynamics and Mathematics
Dissertation title: A quantitative seismic behavior assessment of buried structures
Advisor: Prof. Ertugrul Taciroglu
M.S., University of California, Los Angeles, Civil Engineering, Sep. 2014 - Jun. 2015
Advisor: Prof. Ertugrul Taciroglu
B.S., Tongji University, Shanghai, China, Civil Engineering, Sep. 2010 - Jun. 2014
Awards
Dissertation Year Fellowship, UCLA, 2019
The Structural Engineers Association of Southern California (SEAOSC) Foundation Scholarship, 2018
Graduate Student Division Fellowship, UCLA, 2015–2017
Tung Hua Lin (T. H. Lin) Scholarship, UCLA, 2015, 2017
Industry Experience
Technical Intern, EMI Division, Simpson Gumpertz & Heger Inc., Los Angeles, CA, Jun. 2018 - Sep. 2018
Technical Intern, STRUCTUS Inc., San Francisco, CA, Jun. 2017 - Sep. 2017