Academic Appointments

• 09/2024 - Present: Program Director Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering (NAME), Newcastle University in Singapore.

• 09/2023 - 08/2024: Deputy Program Director Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering (NAME), Newcastle University in Singapore.

• 08/2022 - 08/2023: Assistant Professor, Newcastle University in Singapore.

• 04/2020 - 07/2022: Assistant Professor, University of Glasgow in Singapore.

• 01/2019 - 03/2020: Research fellow, National University of Singapore.

• 09/2017 - 12/2018: Research fellow, Manchester Metropolitan University.

Education

• 06/2017: PhD in Mechanical Engineering, Technical University of Denmark.

• 09/2011 - 06/2013: MSc in Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology.

• 09/2007 - 06/2011: BSc in Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering, Tianjin Univeristy.

Professional Commitment

• Post-Graduate Certificate in Academic Practice, University of Glasgow, UK.

• Guest editor for special issues in

• – MDPI Journal - Processes: Design and Utilization of Wind Turbines/Wave Energy Convertors.

• – MDPI Journal - Water: Wave–Structure Interaction: Research, Modeling and Future Application

• Member of ASME, ICE, SNAME, SFSS etc.

• External reviewer for the Journal of Fluids and Structures, Physics of Fluids, Ocean Engineering, etc.

• Member of the reviewer board for the Journal of Marine Science and Engineering.

• External Examiner for Ph.D. thesis at the University of A Coruna.

Awards

• Travel grant from MDPI Journal Processes. 2024.

• Baker Medal from Institute of Civil Engineer UK. 2022. Focused wave interactions with floating structures: A blind comparative study. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Engineering and Computational Mechanics. Volume 174, Issue 1, March 2021, pp 46-61.