About

Education PH.D. (2008) Civil Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA M.S. (2007) Applied Mathematics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA M.S. (2003) Environmental Science, Peking University, Beijing, China B.E. (2000) Hydraulic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China Professional experiences 2019 – Associate Professor, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Penn State University 2014 – 2019 Assistant Professor, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Penn State University 2010 – 2013 Assistant Professor, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Texas at San Antonio 2009 – 2010 Visiting Research Assistant Professor, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 2008 – 2009 Postdoctoral Research Associate, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Career Type:

Scientist/Researcher/Academic

Organization Type:

Universities and Academia

Expertise Fields/Interests:

Environmental hydraulics, sediment transport, multiphase flow, CFD, water quality modeling The major thrust in our research is to develop and utilize novel computational models for problems in environmental hydraulics and water resource engineering in general. Complementary to computational modeling, we also do some lab experiments and analytical work.

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