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| | B.S., (1982), National Central University, Taiwan
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| | M.S., (1986), Northwestern University
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| | Ph.D., (1988), Northwestern University |
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| | Professor & Department Chair, Civil & Environmental Engineering Department, UCLA
Professor, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Department, UCLA
Professor, Mathematics Department, UCLA |
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| | Outstanding Alumnus of National Central University, Taiwan, 2007
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| | Chancellor's Professor, UCLA, 2006 - present
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| | Editor-in-Chief, Interaction and Multiscale Mechanics, an International Journal, 2006 - present
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| | Elected Treasurer (2006-2008), Vice President (2008-2010), President (2010-2012), US Association for Computational Mechanics
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| | Elected Fellow, International Association for Computational Mechanics, 2006
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| | Elected Fellow, US Association for Computational Mechanics, 2005
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| | Elected At-Large member, Executive Council, US Association for Computational Mechanics, 2001-2006
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| | Associate Editor, ASCE Engineering Mechanics, 2005 - present
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| | Editorial/Advisory Board: International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering (2004 - present), Structural Engineering & Mechanics (2003 - present), International Journal of Computational Methods (2003 present), Computational Methods in Engineering Science and Mechanics (2003 - present), Archives of Computational Methods in Engineering (2009 present), US Association for Computational Mechanics Newsletter (2008 - present)
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| | Guest Editor: Computational Mechanics (2000), Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering (2004), Mechanics of Materials (2009)
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| | Delivered 7 Plenary/Semi-Plenary Lectures and 16 Keynote Lectures in the International Conferences, and 1 Endowed Lecture
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| | General Council member, International Association for Computational Mechanicss, 2003-present
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| | James Lightners Faculty Fellowship, The University of Iowa, 2001
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| | Faculty Scholar Award, 2000
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| | Excellence in Teaching Award, 1996
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| | Carver Scientific Research Initiation Award, 1996
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| | My research interests center around computational methods for dynamic and nonlinear mechanics of materials and solids, multiscale materials modeling, simulation of microstructure evolution, and biomechanics.
My research activities include development of finite element and meshfree particle methods for materials modeling, large deformation and contact mechanics, strain localization, damage mechanics, evolution of material interfaces and grain structures, coupled dislocation dynamics and continuum mechanics, multiscale homogenization of heterogeneous materials, coarse graining of DNA molecular structures, modeling of biological tissues, and numerical solution of Schrφdinger equation in quantum mechanics.These computational methods have been applied to modeling of rubber materials, magnetostrictive particle-filled elastomers, mesoscale modeling of stressed grain growth, metal forming processes, earth moving processes, soil-wheel interaction, fragment/impact modeling, multiscale modeling of dislocation induced inelastic response, multiscale modeling of DNA molecular structural deformation, and in-vivo numerical study of muscle mechanics in human lower leg. |
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