Education
  • Vanderbilt University
    Vanderbilt University
    Ph.D. in Civil Engineering
    August 2018 - December 2023
  • University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
    University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
    M.S.Eng. in Civil Engineering
    August 2016 - April 2018
  • China University of Mining and Technology, Beijing<br>中国矿业大学（北京）
    China University of Mining and Technology, Beijing
    中国矿业大学（北京）
    B.E in Civil Engineering
    September 2012 - June 2016
  • Freiberg University of Mining and Technology<br>Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg
    Freiberg University of Mining and Technology
    Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg
    Exchange student, senior design
    February 2016 - May 2016
Honors & Awards
  • IBM Student Fellowship at Vanderbilt University
    2018, 2019, 2020, 2021

Teaching Experience
  • Grader, Structural Dynamics
    Fall 2017
  • Teaching Assistant, Mechanics of Materials
    Fall 2018
  • Teaching Assistant, Risk, Reliability, and Resilience Engineering
    Spring 2019
  • Teaching Assistant, Structural Analysis
    Fall 2022, Fall 2023
Research
  • UC San Diego
    UC San Diego
    Sparsity-promoting design under uncertainty for a char combustion problem
    Janurary 2024 - Present
    • Developed a design under uncertainty approach for a char combustion process in a limited-data setting
  • Vanderbilt University
    Vanderbilt University
    Uncertainty quantification for high-dimensional problems
    October 2019 - December 2023
    • Developed a surrogate modeling framework for problems with high-dimensional input and output
    • Developed a novel active learning strategy to adaptively improve surrogate models
    • Collaborated with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries with an application on an aircraft fuselage
    • Collaborated with NIST to apply the method to an additive manufacturing (3D printing) part
  • Vanderbilt University
    Vanderbilt University
    Intelligent mission planning using a digital twin approach
    August 2018 - December 2019
    • Conducted damage diagnosis, damage prognosis, and mission optimization with simulation and experimental data
    • Developed a probabilistic digital twin to fuse information from heterogeneous sources, account for both aleatory and epistemic uncertainties