Ph.D. in Civil Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, August 2003.

Dissertation: Cyclic Constitutive Modeling of Granular Materials

Thesis Advisor: Stein Sture; Committee: Hon-Yim Ko, Kaspar Willam, Yun-Ping Xi, and Carlos Felippa

M.S. in Civil Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, August 2000. 

Thesis: Finite Element Analysis for Staged Construction

Thesis Advisor: Stein Sture; Committee: Hon-Yim Ko, and Dobroslav Znidarcic

B.S. in Civil Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, June 1995. 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Associate Dean

Department of Civil Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, August 2025 – present.

Director

Intelligent Engineering and Technology Undergraduate Program, College of Engineering, National Taiwan University, August 2024 – Present.

Professor

Department of Civil Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, August 2015 – present.

Vice President

Taiwan Geotechnical Society, April 2025 – present.

Executive Director

Taiwan Geotechnical Society, March 2019 – present.

Principal Investigator

Implement team project on disaster reduction and resilience technology, National Science and Technology Council, August 2023 – present.

Department Chair

Department of Civil Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, August 2022 – July 2025.

Program Director

Master’s Program in Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience, August 2023 – July 2024.

Executive Secretary

Innovative technology for disaster reduction program office, Ministry of Science and Technology, January 2019 – July 2023.

Vice President for General Affairs

Office of General Affairs, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, August 2018 – January 2023.

Deputy Director

National Taiwan University Cancer Center, Taipei, Taiwan, November 2015 – December 2019.

Director

Taiwan Geotechnical Society, March 2015 – March 2019.

Deputy Vice President for General Affairs

Office of General Affairs, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, August 2013 – July 2018.

Associate Professor

Department of Civil Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, August 2011 – July 2015.

Associate Professor

Department of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering, Missouri University of Science and Technology (formerly University of Missouri-Rolla), Rolla, Missouri, September 2011 – June 2012.

Assistant Professor

Department of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering, Missouri University of Science and Technology (formerly University of Missouri-Rolla), Rolla, Missouri, August 2005 – August 2011.

Lecturer

Department of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering, University of Missouri-Rolla, Rolla, Missouri, August 2004 – May 2005.

Lecturer and Research Associate

Department of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, September 2003 – July 2004.

EDITORSHIP 

Associate Editor

Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering, ASCE, ISSN: 0899-1561, March 2010 – present.

Editorial Board Member

Journal of Testing and Evaluation, ASTM, ISSN: 0090-3973, May 2011 – present.

Editorial Board Member

Marine Georesources & Geotechnology, Taylor & Francis, ISSN: 1064-119X, February 2015 –  present.

Associate Editor-in-Chief
Geoenvironmental Disasters, SpringerOpen, ISSN: 2197-8670, December 2021 – present.

Editorial Board Member

Chinese Journal of Geotechnical Engineering, ISSN: 1000-4548, April 2016 – March 2019.

Editorial Board Member

Journal of GeoEngineering, Taiwan Geotechnical Society, ISSN: 1990-8326, April 2013 – March 2019.

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES