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
“Unstructured Spline Technologies”, IGA 2022, Banff, Canada, November 6 - 9, 2022
“Isogeometric Spline Technologies on Complex Geometries”, WCCM-APCOM 2022, Yokohama, Japan, July 31 - August 5, 2022
“Industrial Applications of IGA”, WCCM-APCOM 2022, Yokohama, Japan, July 31 - August 5, 2022
"Advances in IGA and its applications", Curves and Surfaces 2022, Arcachon, France, June 20 - 24, 2022
“Isogeometric Spline Techniques on Complex Geometries”, USNCCM16, Chicago, Illinois, USA, July 25 - 29, 2021
“Industrial Applications of IGA”, USNCCM16, Chicago, Illinois, USA, July 25 - 29, 2021
"Isogeometric Spline Techniques on Complex Geometries", WCCM ECCOMAS 2020, Paris, France, January 11 - 15, 2021
"Unstructured Spline Techniques", IGA 2019, Munich, Germany, September 18 - 20, 2019
Program committee member of the following conferences
GMP 2022, Okinawa, Japan, May 11-13, 2022
CVM 2021, Qingdao, China, April 21 - 23, 2021
CVM 2020, Macau, China, April 15 - 17, 2020
Session chair of the following minisymposia
"Unstructured Spline Techniques", IGA 2019, Munich, Germany, September 18 - 20, 2019
"Alternative Geometry Descriptions and Analysis Integration", IGA 2019, Munich, Germany, September 18 - 20, 2019
"Unstructured Spline Techniques for Isogeometric Analysis with Applications", USNCCM15, Austin, TX, USA, July 28 - August 1, 2019
Reviewer of the following journals
Computer-Aided Design
Computer-Aided Geometric Design
Graphical Models
Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering
Computational Mechanics
International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering
Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing
Engineering with Computers
Molecular & Cellular Biomechanics
International Journal for Numerical Methods in Biomedical Engineering
Journal of Computational Design and Engineering
Website manager of Solid Modeling Association, 2017 - 2018
Member of the United States Association for Computational Mechanics (USACM)