Education:
Ph.D. in Civil Engineering, Northwestern University, 2010
M.Eng. in Civil Engineering, National University of Singapore, 2005
B.Eng. (First Class Honors) in Civil Engineering, National University of Singapore, 2003
Positions held:
James L. Record Professor, University of Minnesota, 2023 - present
Associate department head, 2022 - present
Professor, University of Minnesota, 2021 - present
Associate Professor, University of Minnesota, 2016-2021
Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota, 2010-2016
Structural Engineer, ARUP, 2004-2006
Professional Activities:
President, International Association of Fracture Mechanics of Concrete Structures
Member, Board of Directors of Society of Engineering Science
Chair, ACI Technical Committee on Fracture Mechanics of Concrete
Editorial Board Member, Engineering Fracture Mechanics, 2026-
Editorial Board Member, Engineering Failure Analysis, 2022-
Associate Editor, Journal of Engineering Mechanics, ASCE, 2016 -
Ph.D. in Civil Engineering, Tongji University
Augusto Cannone Falchetto (Ph.D. 2013)
Bing Xue (Ph.D. 2015)
Hanxiao Ge (Ph.D. 2015)
Teng Man (Ph.D. 2019)
Zhifeng Xu (Ph.D. 2019)
Abraham Shemshadian (Ph.D. 2020)
Anu Tripathi (Ph.D. 2020)
Tianhao Yan (Ph.D. 2021)
Anna Gorgogianni (Ph.D. 2021)
Chen Hu (Ph.D. 2023)
Jonathan Manning (M.S. 2013)
Marie DesHarnais (M.S. 2014)
Zhiren Zhu (M.S. 2015)
Rose Milavitz (M.S. 2016)
Rebecca Hendrickson (M.S. 2017)
Yuan Wang (M.S. 2019)
Emirlan Askerbekov (M.S. 2024)
Mohammad Amin Dargi (M.S. 2025)