Education and Degrees

Mar. 1989 - Nov. 1994:
PhD Candidate, and Senior Research Assistant (eq. Research Associate) (Jan. 1991 - Dec. 1996),
Department of Civil Engineering (Institute for Numerical Methods in Engineering), University of Wales Swansea, U. K.
Specialty: Computational Modeling.
Areas of Interest: Computational Mechanics; Mesh Generation; Geometric Modeling; Scientific Visualization; Graphical User Environment; Back (Inverse) Consolidation Problems; Engineering Optimization; Computational Heat Transfer; Numerical Modeling of Casting Process and Ground Freezing; Solid Mechanics; Structural Mechanics.
Degree: Doctor of Philosophy, March, 1995.

Sep. 1986 - Feb. 1989:
PhD Candidate, Department of Civil Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, P. R. China.
Selected and supported by the Chinese State Commission of Education to pursue research in UK under a joint doctorate program.
Specialty: Geotechnical Engineering.
Areas of Interest: Practical Computer Methods in Geotechnology; Applications of Modern Physico-Mathematical Methods (Grey System Theory, Fuzzy Set Theory, Orthogonal Design Method, Probabilistic Approach, and Expert Systems); Solid Mechanics; Structural Mechanics; Multi-Phase Flows in Porous Media; Consolidation Problems.

Sep. 1984 - Jul. 1986:
Graduate Student, Department of Engineering Mechanics (Currently Department of Space Engineering and Mechanics), Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, P. R. China.
One of the two, among about 600 graduate students, specially permitted to graduate within 2 years instead of normal 2.5 to 3 years.
Specialty: Solid Mechanics.
Areas of Interest: Fracture; Elasto-Plastic Mechanics; Structural Mechanics; Mechanics of Composite Materials.
Degree: Master of Science (Engineering), September, 1986.

Sep. 1980 - Jul. 1984:
Undergraduate Student, Department of Mathematics, Hangzhou University, Hangzhou, P. R. China.
Specialty: Mathematics.
Areas of Interest: Applied Mathematics; Elasticity.
Degree: Bachelor of Science, July, 1984.

Doctor Thesis (Doctor of Philosophy)

Three-Dimensional Mesh Generation and Visualization
for Finite Elements: Principles and Practice
Department of Civil Engineering, University of Wales Swansea, November, 1994, (xiv + 247 Pages).

Master Thesis (Master of Science (Engineering))

Crack Tip Fields in Orthotropic Elastic Perfectly-Plastic Materials
Department of Engineering Mechanics, Harbin Institute of Technology, June, 1986, (171 Pages).

Bachelor Theses (Bachelor of Science)

(1) Bending of Rectangular Thin Plate Supported by Several Columns
Department of Mathematics, Hangzhou University, June, 1984, (25 Pages).
(Excellent Bachelor Thesis of the University, 1984.)
(2) Local Stress Analysis on the Joint of Nozzle in Spherical Pressure Vessel by Axial-Symmetric FEM
Department of Mathematics, Hangzhou University, June, 1984, (14 Pages).
(Excellent Bachelor Thesis of the Department, 1984.)

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Department of Engineering Mechanics (Currently Department of Space Engineering and Mechanics), Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, P. R. China.
Position : Teaching Assistant
Dates : Sep. 1985 - Jul. 1986
Course : Experimental Solid Mechanics

Platforms
• Very experienced user of workstations such as Sun3, Sun4, Sun Spark, SGI Indigo, Indigo2 Extreme, Indy, O2, Octane, Power Challenge and Power Onyx, servers such as Sun Enterprise 3000, supercomputers and supercomputer clusters such as IBM SP Power3 and SGI Origin2000 (up to 512 CPUs), within Unix environment.
• Experienced with supercomputers such as Cray EL98, C90 and SV1e under Unicos system.
• Experienced with supercomputers such as Pentium III Linux Cluster (up to 128 CPUs).
• Familiar with a range of computers and operating systems such as
  Mainframe DEC VAX 8700, 8800 and 11/750 with VMS system;
  Apollo Domain Graphics Workstation running under Aegis and Unix operating systems;
  Pyramid 9820 in Unix environment; and
  Personal computers with MS-DOS, Windows and Windows NT.
Software
• Proficient in Fortran and C; Familiar with C++, Java, HTML, and Visual Basic.
• Experienced in graphics application programming using X-Window (Motif), OpenGL, SGI GL, SunCore and SunView libraries.
• Very experienced user of some GUI designer tools such as X-Designer, Forms and Xforms Designer.
• Developer of CAD data conversion tools; Familiar with a range of CAD data formats such as IGES, IDEAS, VDA, DXF, PATRAN and ANSYS.
• Proficient in commercial packages PROSTAR (a pre/post processor for thermofluids analysis code STAR-CD) and SAMM (a semi-automatic hexahedral mesh generator).
• Very familiar with Geomview (Geometry Center, University of Minnesota) and BRL-CAD (a solid modeling system from US Army Research Laboratory).
• Familiar with visualization software such as SGI Explore and AVS.
• Experienced user of Uniras, Simplot and Gino graphics packages.
• An expert in word processing system LaTeX (TeX), especially dealing with insertion of figures.
• Familiar with Microsoft Office 2000 Professional such as Word and PowerPoint.
• Familiar with some image editing software packages such as Adobe Photoshop 5.x, and a range of facilities of color graphics production.

• National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, the National Nature Science Foundation of China (NSFC), 2002.
• Scholarship for pursuing doctorate research abroad, the Chinese State Commission of Education, 1989.
• Best Postgraduate Student Award, Harbin Institute of Technology, China, 1985.

Membership
• The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics;
• The American Society of Mechanical Engineers;
• The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers;
• The IEEE Computer Society;
• The Association of Computing Machinery;
• The New York Academy of Sciences.
Editorial Board Member
• Computational Fluid Dynamics Journal;
• Chinese Journal of Computational Mechanics.
Paper Referee
• International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering;
• Communications in Numerical Methods in Engineering;
• Computer-Aided Design;
• Finite Elements in Analysis and Design.
Book Reviewer
• International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering;
• Computer Graphics Forum.
  

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