Teaching

Teaching Interests

  • Civil engineering materials
  • Computational mechanics
  • Infrastructure management
  • Community resilience assessment and interdependency modeling

Certificate

Lehigh University

  • Certificate in Teacher Development 2016

Instructional Experience

Virginia Tech

CEE 2804 Introduction to Civil and Environmental Engineering Guest Lecturer 2015.9

  • Multi-scale Multi-physics Experimentation and Modeling

CEE 4634 Infrastructure Condition Assessment Guest Lecturer 2015.3

  • Non-destructive testing inspection
  • Digital imaging techniques for surface morphological characterization

CEE 5674 Advanced Pavement Design Guest Lecturer 2015.10

  • Molecular dynamics modeling of concrete materials

Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Seismic Design of Building Structures Teaching Assistant 2008.9-12

Mentoring Experience

The person with * is from the underrepresented group in STEM.

Graduate Students

Youshan Zhang NSF CMMI-1541177 Lehigh University, Bethlehem PA 2018.8 - 2019.5

Program development for the PRAISys computation platform

Zhiyu Chen NSF CMMI-1541177 Lehigh University, Bethlehem PA 2018.5 - 2018.8

Program development for the PRAISys computation platform

Yufeng Liu* VTRC 101905 Virginia Tech, Blackburg VA 2015.5 - 2015.12

Training to operate the improved FTI system and the Mobile Load Simulators (MLS)

Technical discussions of MLS experiment designs, data processing, and journal article writing

Bo Peng* VTRC 101905 Virginia Tech, Blackburg VA 2013.8

Training to operate the improved FTI system

Program improvements for rapid data post–processing

Undergraduate Students

Marcy Bardman* NSF CMMI-1541177 Lehigh University, Bethlehem PA 2019.6-8

Collecting infrastructure recovery data in longitudinal studies

P. Rithipreedanant NSF CMMI-1541177 Lehigh University, Bethlehem PA 2019.6-8

Applying machine learning (Faster RCNN) for image recognition to identify structural characteristics of telecommunication towers

K. Eleskandarani NSF CMMI-1541177 Lehigh University, Bethlehem PA 2019.3-5

Documentation of user manual and technical manual of the PRASIys platform

Vaafoulay Kanneh* NSF CMMI-1541177 Lehigh University, Bethlehem PA 2019.1 - 2019.5

Data collection of communication infrastructure in the South Florida and Florida Panhandle

Victoria Pasini* NSF CMMI-1541177 Lehigh University, Bethlehem PA 2018.5 - 2019.5

Data collection of transportation infrastructure in the testbed of South Florida

Morgan Comisac* NSF CMMI-1541177 Lehigh University, Bethlehem PA 2019.1 - 2019.5

Data collection of transportation infrastructure in the testbed of Florida Panhandle

Chase Gallik NSF CMMI-1541177 Lehigh University, Bethlehem PA 2018.5 - 2019.5

Data collection of power infrastructure in the Lehigh Valley and the testbed of Florida Panhandle, including transmission lines, transmission towers, and utility poles using machine learning of LiDAR data

Yichen Xu NSF CMMI-1541177 Lehigh University, Bethlehem PA 2018.5 - 2018.12

Program development for the PRAISys computation platform

Natalie Rosato* NSF CMMI-1541177 Lehigh University, Bethlehem PA 2018.5 - 2018.8

Data collection of historical weather-related scenarios in two testbeds: the Lehigh Valley and South Florida

Louis Lin NSF CMMI-1541177 Lehigh University, Bethlehem PA 2018.1 - 2018.4

Data collection power infrastructure in the South Florida, including power plants and substations, as well as their connectivity

Baiyu Xiang NSF CMMI-1541177 Lehigh University, Bethlehem PA 2017.9 - 2018.4

Program development for the PRAISys computation platform

Julia Patterson* NSF CMMI-1541177 Lehigh University, Bethlehem PA 2016.9 - 2016.12

Evaluation of community resilience metrics and practice tools

Kris Datta NSF CMMI-1541177 Lehigh University, Bethlehem PA 2016.9 - 2016.12

Evaluation of community resilience metrics and practice tools

Development of a virtual testbed for community resilience assessment

Kyle Bordner NSF CMMI-1541177 Lehigh University, Bethlehem PA 2016.9 - 2016.12

Evaluation of community resilience metrics and practice tools

Sean Saksena* NCHRP 4-34 Virginia Tech, Blackburg VA 2010.5 - 2010.8

Imaging measurement of 80 aggregate particles with the Fourier Transform Interferometry (FTI) system