Bozhou Zhuang, Ph.D.
Post-doctoral Scholar @ UCLA
bozhouzhuang@ucla.edu (active)
bozhouzh@usc.edu (active)
bzhuang31@gatech.edu (expired)
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, USA
Post-Doctoral Scholar (8/2025-)
Sensors and Robotics for Infrastructure Lab (SRI Lab)
Advisor: Sriram Narasimhan, PhD, PEng, FASCE
Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, USA
Post-Doctoral Fellow & Instructor (09/2024-8/2025)
Research: Generative structural design, infrastructure evaluation, time series forecast.
Teaching: Independently teaching COE 3001: Deformable Bodies for 55 UG students. Developed syllabus, 230 pages of lecture notes, problem and solution sets for 3 exams, 3 quizzes and 10 HWs.
Advisor: Danny Smyl, Ph.D., P.E.
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Energy and Environment Directorate (EED), USA
Ph.D. Intern (06/2023-08/2023)
Conduct researches on acoustic sensing for application to commercial dry storage casks for spent nuclear fuel.
University of Southern California, Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, USA
Ph.D. in Civil Engineering (08/2021 - 08/2024)
Dissertation: Impurity Gas Detection for Spent Nuclear Fuel (SNF) Canisters Using Ultrasonic Sensing and Deep Learning [Dissertation]
Dissertation Committee: Bora Gencturk (Chair, Advisor), Assad Oberai, Roger Ghanem
Honors: Theodore and Wen-Hui Chen Endowed Fellowship; Professor Teh-Fu Yen and Dr. Shia-Ping Siao Yen Fellowship; USC Viterbi/Graduate School Fellowship; Third Place in EMI Structural Health Monitoring and Control Student Paper Competition; First Place in USC 3-minute Thesis® Competition & Final Round in the Western Region's 3-minute Thesis® Competition
University of Southern California, Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering, USA
M.S. in Electrical Engineering (08/2021 - 06/2023)
GPA: 3.8/4.0, general track with courses focusing on machine learning and signal processing.
Tongji University, College of Civil Engineering, China
M.S. in Architectural and Civil Engineering (09/2017 - 06/2020)
Honors: Outstanding Master Dissertations jointly awarded by China Highway and Transportation Society and Tongji University
Northeast Forestry University, College of Civil Engineering, China
B.S. in Civil Engineering (09/2013 - 06/2017)
Honors: Outstanding College Graduates of China Civil Engineering Society (CCES)
Structural health monitoring
Ultrasonic acoustic sensing
Spent nuclear fuel storage systems
Steel-concrete composite structures
Engineering applications of machine learning