Degrees

Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, Dec. 2014

Dissertation: Thermodynamically consistent modeling and simulation of multiphase flows

M.S.C.A.M., The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 2011

B.S., Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, P.R.China, 2008

Professional Employment

Assistant professor, Southern University of Science and Technology, Dec. 2020 - present

Postdoctoral fellow, Stanford University, May 2016 - Nov. 2020

Mentor: Prof. Alison L. Marsden

Postdoctoral fellow, The University of Texas at Austin, Jan. 2015-May 2016

Mentor: Prof. Thomas J.R. Hughes

Graduate research assistant, The University of Texas at Austin, June 2009-Dec. 2015

Advisor: Prof. Thomas J.R. Hughes

Awards and Honors

• 2018 Invited talk at Stanford Fluid Mechanics Seminar
• 2013 Robert J. Melosh Medalist, Duke University
• 2011 NIMS fellowship, ICES, The University of Texas at Austin
• 2007 First Class National Scholarship, Ministry of Education of P.R.China

Teaching Experience

• Instructor, SUSTech MAE310, Computational Solid Mechanics, Fall 2023.
• Instructor, SUSTech MAE5007, Advanced Computational Solid Mechanics, Spring 2023.
• Instructor, SUSTech MAE5032, High-performance computing: theory and practices, Sprint 2022.
• Instructor, SUSTech MAE5009, Continuum Mechanics B, Fall 2021.
• Instructor, SUSTech MAE310/MAE5007, Computational Solid Mechanics, Spring 2021.
• Teaching Assistant, UT-Austin CSE397/EM397, Nonlinear static and dynamic finite element analysis (with particular emphasis on solids and an introduction to isogeometric analysis), Spring 2016
• Co-Instructor, UT-Austin CSE397/EM397, Stabilized and Variational Multiscale Methods in Computational Fluid Dynamics, Spring 2015
• Teaching Assistant, UT-Austin CSE397/EM397, Nonlinear static and dynamic finite element analysis (with particular emphasis on solids and an introduction to isogeometric analysis), Spring 2014
• Teaching Assistant, UT-Austin CSE397/EM397, Stabilized and Variational Multiscale Methods in Computational Fluid Dynamics, Spring 2015
• Teaching Assistant, UT-Austin M408K, Differential Calculus, Spring 2009
• Teaching Assistant, UT-Austin M361K, Introduction to Real Analysis, Fall 2008

Professional Activities and Service

Journal Reviewer

• Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering
• Journal of Computational Physics
• Computer Physics Communications
• International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering
• Journal of Fluid Mechanics
• Physics of Fluids
• Annals of Biomedical Engineering
• Acta Biomaterialia
• Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications
• Environmental Earth Sciences
• Mathematical Problems in Engineering

Symposium and Conference Organizer

• Member of Scientific Committee, IGA 2022: Integrating Design and Analysis, Banff, Nov. 2022.
• Member of Scientific Committee, Virtual IGA 2020: Integrating Design and Analysis, Aug. 2020.
• Member of Scientific Committee, IGA 2018: Integrating Design and Analysis, Austin, 10-12 Oct. 2018.
• Symposium Organizer, Advanced Finite Elements for Complex-Physics Complex-Geometry Computations: Tetrahedral Algorithms and Related Methods within the 13th World Congress in Computational Mechanics (WCCM2018), New York, USA, July 2018.
• Symposium Organizer, Phase Field Modeling of Coupled Problems within the sixth edition of the International Conference on Computational Methods for Coupled Problems in Science and Engineering, Venice, Italy, May 2015