Education

  • Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, USA, 2017

  • M.S., Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, USA, 2016

  • M.S., Civil Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Japan, 2013

  • B.S., Civil Engineering, Economics (Double), Tsinghua University, China, 2011

Academic Experience

  • Assistant Professor, University of Michigan-Shanghai Jiao Tong University Joint Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, 2022 - Present

  • Postdoctoral Scientist, Institute of Mathematics, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, 2018 - 2021

  • Postdoctoral Research Associate, Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, USA, 2017 - 2018

Awards and Honors

  • M-CRIT Scholarship for Trainees, Frankel Cardiovascular Center, USA, 2017

  • Bertucci Graduate Fellowship, Carnegie Mellon University, USA, 2016

  • Liang Ji-Dian Graduate Fellowship, Carnegie Mellon University, USA, 2016

  • SIAM Student Travel Award, GD/SPM15 Conference, USA, 2015

  • CIT Dean’s Fellowship, Carnegie Mellon University, USA, 2013

  • Japanese Government (MEXT) Scholarship, The University of Tokyo, Japan, 2011

Teaching Experience

  • Teaching Assistant

Advanced Analysis I @ EPFL, Fall 2021

Advanced Linear Algebra @ EPFL, Fall 2020 (Both physical and online)

Statistics for Data Science @ EPFL, Fall 2019

Numerical Methods in Engineering @ CMU, Fall 2016

Computational Bio-Modeling & Visualization @ CMU, Spring 2016

  • Guest Lecturer

Numerical Methods in Engineering @ CMU, Fall 2015/17/18

Computational Bio-Modeling & Visualization @ CMU, Spring 2015/17/18

Professional Activities

  • Guest editor of the special issue "Integration of Geometric Modeling and Numerical Simulation" in Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences

  • Co-organizer of the following minisymposia

  1. “Unstructured Spline Technologies”, IGA 2022, Banff, Canada, November 6 - 9, 2022

  2. “Isogeometric Spline Technologies on Complex Geometries”, WCCM-APCOM 2022, Yokohama, Japan, July 31 - August 5, 2022

  3. “Industrial Applications of IGA”, WCCM-APCOM 2022, Yokohama, Japan, July 31 - August 5, 2022

  4. "Advances in IGA and its applications", Curves and Surfaces 2022, Arcachon, France, June 20 - 24, 2022

  5. “Isogeometric Spline Techniques on Complex Geometries”, USNCCM16, Chicago, Illinois, USA, July 25 - 29, 2021

  6. “Industrial Applications of IGA”, USNCCM16, Chicago, Illinois, USA, July 25 - 29, 2021

  7. "Isogeometric Spline Techniques on Complex Geometries", WCCM ECCOMAS 2020, Paris, France, January 11 - 15, 2021

  8. "Unstructured Spline Techniques", IGA 2019, Munich, Germany, September 18 - 20, 2019

  • Program committee member of the following conferences

  1. GMP 2022, Okinawa, Japan, May 11-13, 2022

  2. CVM 2021, Qingdao, China, April 21 - 23, 2021

  3. CVM 2020, Macau, China, April 15 - 17, 2020

  • Session chair of the following minisymposia

  1. "Unstructured Spline Techniques", IGA 2019, Munich, Germany, September 18 - 20, 2019

  2. "Alternative Geometry Descriptions and Analysis Integration", IGA 2019, Munich, Germany, September 18 - 20, 2019

  3. "Unstructured Spline Techniques for Isogeometric Analysis with Applications", USNCCM15, Austin, TX, USA, July 28 - August 1, 2019

  • Reviewer of the following journals

  1. Computer-Aided Design

  2. Computer-Aided Geometric Design

  3. Graphical Models

  4. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering

  5. Computational Mechanics

  6. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

  7. Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing

  8. Engineering with Computers

  9. Molecular & Cellular Biomechanics

  10. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Biomedical Engineering

  11. Journal of Computational Design and Engineering

  • Website manager of Solid Modeling Association, 2017 - 2018

  • Member of the United States Association for Computational Mechanics (USACM)