Education
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
Academic Experience
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
Fellowships, Awards and Honors
- 2025 USACM Fellow
- 2020 Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher in Cross-Field
- 2020 CoE Award for Early Achievement in Research
- 2019 USACM Gallagher Young Investigator Award
- 2019 J. Tinsley Oden Faculty Fellowship
- 2019 Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher in Cross-Field
- 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
Leadership and Service
- 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
Others
- 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