PhD, Structural Engineering, September 2012
University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA
MS, Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, May 2008
The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA
MS, Engineering Science and Ocean Engineering, June 2005
National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
BS, Engineering Science and Ocean Engineering, June 2003
National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
Professor, July 2024–present
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Faculty of Biomedical Engineering
Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA
Associate Professor, July 2019–June 2024
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA
Assistant Professor, August 2013–June 2019
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA
Postdoctoral Fellow, August 2012–July 2013
Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences
The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA
2025 USACM Fellow
2020 CoE Award for Early Achievement in Research
2019 J. Tinsley Oden Faculty Fellowship
2018 Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher in Computer Science
2017 Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher in Engineering
2017 Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher in Computer Science
2016 Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher in Computer Science
2015 Warren Lecture at the University of Minnesota
2013 UCSD Chancellor's Dissertation Medal
2009–2012 Los Alamos–UC San Diego Educational Collaboration Fellowship
2010 The 22nd Annual Robert J. Melosh Medal Competition Finalist
2010 CSCHD Young Investigator Poster Award
Member-at-Large, USACM Executive Committee, 2024–2028
Associate Editor, Journal of Mechanics, 2021–present
Editorial Board Member, Engineering with Computers, 2025–present
Editorial Board Member, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 2022–present
Ad Hoc Member, NIH Modeling and Analysis of Biological Systems Study Section (MABS), 01/2026
Ad Hoc Member, NIH Bioengineering, Technology, and Surgical Sciences Study Section (BTSS), 10/2020; 02/2021; 06/2021; 10/2021; 02/2022; 06/2023; 02/2024
Chair, Isogeometric Analysis Technical Thrust Area Committee, U.S. Association for Computational Mechanics (USACM), 07/2023–07/2025
Chair, Computational Fluid Dynamics and Fluid–Structure Interaction Technical Thrust Area Committee, U.S. Association for Computational Mechanics (USACM), 07/2019–07/2021
Chair, Technical Committee on Computational Fluid–Structure Interaction, Applied Mechanics Division, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 07/2016–07/2019
Conference Organizer, 2022 USACM Thematic Conference on Isogeometric Analysis (IGA 2022), Banff, Canada, 11/06–11/10/2022
Conference Organizer, Virtual Isogeometric Analysis 2020 (VIGA 2020), 08/11–08/12/2020
Guest Editor, Special Issue of Advances in Computational Science and Engineering on Immersed-Boundary Variational Methods, 2024–2025
Guest Editor, Special Issue of Engineering with Computers on Isogeometric Analysis, 2022–2024
Guest Editor, Special Issue of Journal of Mechanics on Recent Advances in Isogeometric Analysis, 2021–2022