The Grainger College of Engineering

Jinhui Yan

Jinhui Yan
Jinhui Yan
  • Associate Professor
(217) 300-8184
2106 Newmark Civil Engineering Bldg

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Education

  • Ph.D., Structural Engineering, University of California, San Diego, 08/2016
  • M.S., Engineering Mechanics, Peking University, 07/2012
  • B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Wuhan University, 07/2009

Biography

Jinhui Yan started his independent research career as an assistant professor in CEE at Illinois since Fall 2018 after finishing a two-year postdoc at Northwestern Univesity. He got his Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego. Jinhui is broadly working on computational mechanics, fluid-structure interaction, multi-phase flows and isogeometric analysis, and their applications to real-world engineering problems such as wind energy, tidal energy, and metallic additive manufacturing. He is a member of ASME, ASCE, and USACM and has been organizing many symposiums and workshops in these societies. He has won many academic awards, including ASME Robert M. and Mary Haythornthwaite Initiation Grant Award, Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Students Abroad, Charles Lee Powell Fellowship, and the nomination for the UCSD Chancellor Dissertation Medal. He is always looking forward to working with self-motivated students on challenging research projects.

Academic Positions

  • Adjunct Assistant Professor (0%), Advanced Digital Sciences Center in Singapore, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 03/2019-Present
  • Faculty Affiliate (0%), Graduate Program of Computational Science and Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 03/2019-Present
  • Assistant Professor (100%), Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 08/2018-Present
  • Postdoc Fellow, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University, 09/2016-08/2018

Professional Registrations

  • Member of Society of Engineering Sciences
  • Member of International Association for Computational Mechanics
  • Member of US Association for Computational Mechanics
  • Member of Engineering Mechanics Institute
  • Member of American Society of Mechanical Engineers
  • Member of American Society of Civil Engineers

Other Professional Activities

  • Scientific Committee, 18th US National Congress of Computational Mechanics, Chicago, 2025
  • Conference co-Chair, Isogeometric Analysis 2024, St. Augustine, FL, 2024
  • Local organizing committee, Engineering Mechanics Institute Conference, Chicago, 2024
  • Mini-symposium Organizer, Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and fluid-structure interaction (FSI): Method development and applications, Engineering Mechanics Institute Conference, Chicago, 2024
  • Mini-symposium Organizer, Mechanics and Physics of Additive Manufacturing, 2024 SES Annual Technical Meeting, August 20-23, 2024, Hangzhou, China
  • Mini-symposium Organizer, IMMERSED-BOUNDARY VARIATIONAL METHODS: THEORY, DATA STRUCTURES, AND APPLICATIONS, 16th World Congress on Computational Mechanics and 4th Pan American Congress on Computational Mechanics, July 21-26, 2024, Vancouver Convention Centre, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
  • Mini-symposium Organizer, Complex Fluids and FSI, Advances in Computational Mechanics (ACM 2023) A Conference Celebrating the 80th Birthday of Thomas J.R. Hughes, October 22–25, 2023, Austin, Texas
  • Mini-symposium Organizer, Computational/Experimental Fluid Dynamics and Fluid-Structure Interaction, Engineering Mechanics Institute Conference, Atlanta, 2023
  • Mini-symposium Organizer, Advances in immersed/embedded/shifted/unfitted methods for computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and fluid-structure interaction (FSI), IACM Computational Fluids Conference (CFC), Cannes, 2023
  • Mini-symposium Organizer, Fluid-structure Interaction in Interface and Moving Boundary Problems, 17th U. S. National Congress on Computational Mechanics, New Mexico, July 23-27, 2023
  • Mini-symposium Organizer, Immersed/Unfitted Discretizations in Computational Mechanics: Mathematics, Algorithms, and Applications, 17th U. S. National Congress on Computational Mechanics, New Mexico, July 23-27, 2023
  • Mini-symposium Organizer, Physics-Based and Data-Driven Solutions for Additive Manufacturing, 17th U. S. National Congress on Computational Mechanics, New Mexico, July 23-27, 2023
  • Scientific committee, 17th U. S. National Congress on Computational Mechanics, Albuquerque, New Mexico, July 23-27, 2023
  • Scientific committee member, Isogeometric Analysis 2022, Banff, Canada, 6-9 November 2022
  • Mini-symposium Organizer, Meshfree and Novel Finite Element Methods with Applications, Berkeley, California, September 25-27, 2022
  • Organizer, CFD and FSI: Method development and applications, 15th World Congress on Computational Mechanics, Yokohama, Japan, July 31 - August 5, 2022
  • Organizer, Mechanics and Physics of additive manufacturing, 2022 SES conference, TAMU
  • Organizer, CFD and FSI: Method development and applications, 2022 EMI conference, JHU
  • Organizing committee, Virtual Seminar Series on CFD and FSI, U.S. Association for Computational Mechanics
  • Local committee, 16th U.S. National Congress on Computational Mechanics, Chicago
  • Mini-symposium organizer, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and Fluid-structure Interaction (FSI): Algorithms and Applications, 2021 US Congress on Computational Mechanics, Chicago
  • Mini-symposium organizer, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and Fluid-structure Interaction (FSI): Algorithms and Applications, 2019 Asian-Pacific Congress on Computational Mechanics, Tapei
  • Mini-symposium organizer, G.I. Taylor Medal Mini-symposium: Variational Multi-scale in Mechanics, 56th Annual Technical Meeting for the Society of Engineering Science (SES), St. Louis, 2019
  • Mini-symposium organizer, Multi Physics/Scale Modeling for Additive Manufacturing, 20th Finite Element in Fluid (FEF) 2019, Chicago
  • Mini-symposium organizer, Advanced CFD and FSI for Renewable Energy, 20th Finite Element in Fluid (FEF) 2019, Chicago
  • Mini-symposium organizer, High-fidelity Computational Modeling of Process-Structure-Property Relationships in Additive Manufacturing, World Congress on Computational Mechanics (WCCM) 2018, New York City

Research Interests

  • My group works on computational mechanics. One particular area is computational interface-coupled multi-physics, such as fluid-structure interaction, multi-phase flows, and their application to real-world engineering problems in renewable energy and additive manufacturing. For example, he and his group are working on developing computational free-surface fluid-structure interaction method to help understand the dynamic response of offshore floating wind turbines in ocean waves, and improve the survivability and efficiency of the turbine in harsh sea states. He is also working on high-fidelity multi-scale thermal fluid models to derive process-structure-property relationships in metallic additive manufacturing.

Research Areas

Selected Articles in Journals

  • J. Liu, J. Yan, S. Lo, A new insertion sequence for incremental Delaunay triangulation, Acta Mechanica Sinica, 99-109, DOI 10.1007/s10409-013-0001-x, 29, 2013
  • Y. Bazilevs, A. Korobenko, X. Deng, J. Yan, M. Kinzel, J. Dabiri, FSI modeling of vertical-axis wind turbines, ASME Journal of Applied Mechanics, 81(8), DOI:10.1115/1.4027466, 2014
  • Y. Bazilevs, J. Yan, M. Stadler, S. Sarkar, Computation of the flow over a sphere at Re = 3700: a comparison of uniform and turbulent inflow conditions, ASME Journal of Applied Mechanics, 81(12), DOI: 10.1115/1.4028754, 2014
  • X. Deng, A. Korobenko, J. Yan, Y. Bazilevs, Isogeometric analysis of continuum damage in rotation-free composite shells, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 284, 349-372, DOI: 10.1016j.cma.2014.09.015, 2015
  • Y. Wang, Q. Wang, X. Deng, Z. Xia, J. Yan, H. Xu, Graphics processing unit (GPU) accelerated fast multipole BEM with level-skip M2L for 3D elasticity problems, Advances in Engineering Software​, 82, 105-118, DOI: 10.1016/j.advengsoft.2015.01.002, 2015
  • Y. Bazilevs, A. Korobenko, X. Deng, J. Yan, Novel structural modeling and mesh moving techniques for advanced FSI simulation of wind turbines, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, 102(3-4), 766-783, DOI: 10.1002nme.4738, 2015
  • B. Augier, J. Yan, A. Korobenko, J. Czarnowski, G. Ketterman, Y. Bazilevs, Experimental and numerical FSI study of compliant hydrofoils, Computational Mechanics, 55, 1079-1090, DOI: 10.1007/s00466-014-1090-5, 2015
  • Y. Bazilevs, A. Korobenko, J. Yan, A. Pal, S. Gohari, S. Sarkar, ALE-VMS formulation for stratified turbulent incompressible flows with applications, Mathematical Models and Methods in Applied Science, 25(12), 2349-2375, DOI: 10.1142/S0218202515400114, 2015
  • X. Deng, J. Wang, J. Yan, T. Liu, S. Wang, Topology optimization of total femur structure: application of parameterized level set method under geometric constraints, ASME Journal of Mechanical Design, 138(1), 011402, DOI: 10.1115/1.4031803, 2016
  • J. Yan, B. Augier, A. Korobenko, J. Czarnowski, G. Keterman, Y. Bazilevs, FSI modeling of a propulsion system based on compliant hydrofoils in a tandem configuration, Computers and Fluids, 141, 201-211, DOI: 10.1016/j.comp, 2016
  • Y. Bazilevs, X. Deng, A. Korobenko, J. Yan, Fluid-structure interaction modeling for fatigue-damage prediction in full-scale wind turbine blades, ASME Journal of Applied Mechanics, 83(6), DOI: 10.1115/1.4030795, 2016
  • J. Yan, A. Korobenko, X. Deng, Y. Bazilevs, Computational free-surface fluid-structure interaction with application to floating offshore wind turbines, Computers and Fluids, 141, 155-174, DOI: 10.1016/j.comp, 2016
  • T. Opstal, J. Yan, C. Coley, J. Evans, T. Kvamsdal, Y. Bazilevs, Isogeometric divergence-conforming variational multiscale formulation of incompressible turbulent flows, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 316, 859-879, DOI: 10.1016/j.cma.2016.10.015, 2017
  • J. Yan, A. Korobenko, AE Tejada-Martnez, R. Golshan, Y. Bazilevs, A new variational multiscale formulation for stratified incompressible turbulent flows, Computers and Fluids, 158, 150-156, DOI: 10.1016/j.comp, 2017
  • J. Yan, X. Deng, A. Korobenko, Y. Bazilevs, Free-surface flow modeling and simulation of horizontal-axis tidal-stream turbines, Computers and Fluids, 158, 157-166, DOI: 10.1016/j.compuid.2016.06.016, 2017 (Tecplot 2016 Plot-Contest Winner)
  • A. Korobenko, J. Yan, S. Gohari, S. Sarkar, Y. Bazilevs, FSI simulation of two back-to-back wind turbines in atmospheric boundary layer flow, Computers and Fluids, 158, 167-175, DOI: 10.1016/j.comp, 2017
  • D. Kamensky, F. Xu, C. Lee, J. Yan, Y. Bazilevs, M. Hsu, A contact formulation based on a volumetric potential: Application to isogeometric simulations of atrioventricular valves, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 330, 522-546, DOI: 10.1016/j.cma.2017.11.007, 2018
  • R. Li, K. Li, G. Wang, L. Li, Q. Zhang, J. Yan, Y. Chen, Q. Zhang, C. Hou, Y. Li, H. Wang, Ion-Transport Design for High-Performance Na+-based Electrochromics, ASC Nano, 12(4), 3759-3768, DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.8b00974, 2018
  • W. Yan, S. Lin, O. Kafka, Y. Lian, C. Yu, Z. Liu, J. Yan, S. Wol, E. Ndip-Agbora, M. Mozaara, K. Ehmann, J. Cao, G. Wagner, W. Liu, Data-driven multi-scale multi-physics models to derive process-structure-property relationships for additive manufacturing, Computational Mechanics, 61, 521-541, DOI: 10.1007/s00466-018-1539-z, 2018
  • J. Yan, W. Yan, S. Lin, G. Wagner, A fully coupled finite element formulation for liquid-solid-gas thermo-fluid flow with melting and solidification, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 336, 444-470, DOI: 10.1016/j.cma.2018.03.017, 2018
  • K. Li, Y. Shao, Z. Lu, H. Yan, Z. Lu, K.J. Griffith, J. Yan, G. Wang, H. Fan, J. Lu, W. Huang, B. Bao, X. Liu, C. Hou, Q. Zhang, Y. Li, J. Y, H. Wang, Lattice contraction triggered synchronous electrochromic actuator, Nature communication, 9(1), 4798, DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-07241-7, 2018
  • J. Yan, S. Lin, Y. Bazilevs, G. Wagner, Isogeometric analysis of multi-phase flows with surface tension and its application on bubble dynamics, Computers and Fluids, 179, 777-789, DOI: 10.1016/j.compfluid.2018.04.017, 2019
  • Y. Bazilevs, J. Yan, A. Korobenko, X. Deng, Computer modeling of wind turbines: 2. Free surface FSI and fatigue-damage, Archives of Computational Methods in Engineering, 26, 1101-1115, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11831-018-9287-y, 2019
  • S. Lin, J. Yan, D. Kats, G. Wagner, A Volume-conserving level set method on unstructured meshes using a control volume finite element formulation, Journal of Computational Physics, 380, 119-142, DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2018.11.032, 2019
  • T. Helgedagsrud, Y. Bazilevs, K. Mathisen, J. Yan, and O. Oiseth, Modeling and simulation of bridge-section buffeting response in turbulent flow, Mathematical Models and Methods in Applied Sciences, 29(05), 939-966, https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218202519410045, 2019
  • S. Xu, N. Liu, J. Yan, Residual-based variational multi-scale modeling for particle-laden gravity currents over flat and triangular wavy terrains, Computers and Fluids, 188, 114-124, DOI: j.compfluid.2019.05.008, 2019
  • Q. Zhu, F. Xu, S. Xu, M. Hsu, J. Yan, An immersogeometric formulation for free-surface flows with application to marine engineering problems, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 361, 112748, DOI:10.1016/j.cma.2019.112748, 2020.
  • J. Gao, M. Xiao, L. Gao, J. Yan, W. Yan, Isogeometric topology optimization for computational design of re-entrant and chiral auxetic composites, Computer Method in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 362, 112876, DOI:10.1016/j.cma.2020.112876, 2020.
  • J. Yan, X. Deng, F. Xu, S. Xu, Q. Zhu, Numerical simulations of two back-to-back horizontal axis tidal stream turbines in free-surface flows, ASME Journal of Applied Mechanics, 87(6), DOI:10.1115/1.4046317, 2020.
  • S. Lin, Z. Gan, J. Yan, G. Wangner, A conservative level set method on unstructured meshes for modeling multiphase thermo-fluid flow in additive manufacturing processes, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 372, 113348, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cma.2020.113348, 2020
  • Q. Zhu, J. Yan, AE Tejada-Martínez, Variational multiscale modeling of Langmuir turbulent boundary layers in shallow water using Isogeometric Analysis, Mechanics Research Communications, 108, 103570, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mechrescom.2020.103570, 2020
  • G. Wang, L. Feng, W. Huang, S. Mukherjee, Y. Chen, D. Shen, B. Wang, J. Strzalka, D. Zheng, F. Melkonyan, J. Yan, F. Stoddart, S. Fabiano, D. DeLongchamp, M. Zhu, A. Facchetti, T. Marks, Mixed-flow design for microfluidic printing of two-component polymer semiconductor systems, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(30), 17551-17557, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2000398117, 2020.
  • Q. Zhu, J. Yan. A moving-domain CFD solver in FEniCS with applications to tidal turbine simulations in turbulent flows, Computers & Mathematics with Applications, 81, 532-546, DOI: j.camwa.2019.07.034, 2021
  • Z. Zhao, J. Yan, Variational multi-scale modeling of interfacial flows with a balanced-force surface tension model, Mechanics Research Communication, 112, 103608, DOI:10.1016/j.mechrescom.2020.103608, 2021.
  • Z. Zhao, Q. Zhu, J. Yan, A thermal multi-phase flow model for directed energy deposition processes via a moving signed distance function, Computer Method in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 373, 113518, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cma.2020.113518, 2021
  • Q. Zhu, Z. Liu, J. Yan, Machine learning for metal additive manufacturing: Predicting temperature and melt pool fluid dynamics using physics-informed neural networks, Computational Mechanics, 67, 619-635, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00466-020-01952-9, 2021
  • Q. Zhu, J. Yan, A mixed interface-capturing/interface-tracking formulation for thermal multi-phase flows with emphasis on metal additive manufacturing processes, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 383, 113910, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cma.2021.113910, 2022
  • Z. Zhao, M. Stuebner, J. Lua, N. Phan, J. Yan, Full-field temperature recovery during water quenching processes via physics-informed machine learning, Journal of Materials Processing Technology, 303, 117534, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmatprotec.2022.117534, 2022
  • Y. Yuan, B. Yan, X. Zhou, Q. Yang, G. Huang, Y. He, J. Yan, RANS simulations of aerodynamic forces on a tall building under twisted winds considering horizontal homogeneity, Journal of Building Engineering, 54, 104628, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jobe.2022.104628, 2022
  • Q. Zhu, M. Zhu, J. Yan, Isogeometric large-eddy simulations of turbulent particle-laden flows, Mathematical Models and Methods in Applied Sciences, 32(12), 2529-2550, https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218202522500609, 2022
  • Q. Yang, F. Chen, B. Yan, T. Li, J. Yan, X. Hu, Effects of free-stream turbulence on motion-induced aerodynamic forces of a long-span flexible flat roof using LES simulations, Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics, 231, 105236, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jweia.2022.105236, 2022
  • Q. Zhu, Z. Zhao, J. Yan, Physics-informed machine learning for surrogate modeling of wind pressure and optimization of pressure sensor placement, Computational Mechanics, 71(3), 481-491, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00466-022-02251-1, 2022
  • Z. Zhao, Q. Zhu, A. Karuppiah, M. Stuebner, J. Lua, N. Phan, J. Yan, Computational multi-phase convective conjugate heat transfer on overlapping meshes: a quasi-direct coupling approach via Schwarz alternating method, Computational Mechanics, 71(1), 71-88, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00466-022-02217-3, 2022
  • Z. Zhao, J. Yan, Enriched immersed boundary method (EIBM) for interface-coupled multi-physics and applications to convective conjugate heat transfer, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 401, 115667, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cma.2022.115667, 2022
  • Q. Yang, F. Chen, B. Yan, T. Li, J. Yan. A transport model of convective flow on self-excited vibrating flat flexible roofs using LES, Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics, 238, 105426, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jweia.2023.105426, 2023
  • H. Du*, Z. Zhao*, H. Cheng, J. Yan, Q. He . Modeling density-driven flow in porous media by physics-informed neural networks for CO2 sequestration, Computers and Geotechnics, 159, 105433, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compgeo.2023.105433, 2023  (*Equally contribution)
  • Q. Zhu, X. Wang, C. Demartino, J. Yan, Revealing aeroelastic effects on low-rise roof structures in turbulent winds via isogeometric fluid-structure interaction, Computational Mechanics, 1-16, 10.1007/s00466-023-02341-8, 2023
  • Z. Zhao, J. Yan, On the space discretization and time integration for level set convection, Computational Mechanics, 1-3, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00466-023-02338-3, 2023
  • X. Wang, M. Jaiswal, A. Corpuz, S. Paudel, A. Balu, A. Krishnamurthy, J. Yan, M. Hsu, Photogrammetry-based computational fluid dynamics, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cma.2023.116311, 2023
  • R. Hunt, Z. Zhao, E. Silver, J. Yan, Y. Bazilevs, D. Harris, Drag on a partially immersed sphere at the capillary scale, Physical Review Fluids, DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevFluids.8.084003, 2023 (Editor's pick)
  • J. Kim, H. Yoon, S. Cheng, F. Liu, S. Kang, S. Paudel, D. Cho, H. Luan, M. Lee, G. Jeong, J. Park, Y. Huang, S. Lee, M. Cho, G. Lee, M. Han, B. Kim, J. Yan, Y. Park, S. Jung, L. Chamorro, J. Rogers, Functional bio-inspired hybrid fliers with separated ring and leading edge vortices, PNAS Nexus, https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgae110
  • Y. Xu, Z. Zhao, K. Shrestha, W. Seneviratne, S. Liyanage, U. Palliyaguru, A. Karuppiah, J. Lua, N. Phan, J. Yan, A coupled data-physics computational framework for temperature, residual stress, and distortion modeling in autoclave process of composite materials, Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compositesa.2024.108218, 2024

Articles in Conference Proceedings

  • Q. Zhu, J. Yan, Physics informed machine learning for fluid-structure interaction, International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) High Performance 2021
  • J. Lua, J. Yan, P. Li, Z. Zhao, A. Karuppiah, M. Stuebner, Novel Multi-Physics-based Modeling of a Quenching Process with Thermal-Metallurgical-Mechanical Interactions in Aluminum Component, 77th Vertical Flight Society (VFS) Annual Forum, 2021
  • J. Yan, Free-surface flow modeling of tidal energy, AEAB2019-Applied Energy Symposium: MIT A+B, 05/22-05/24/2019

Journal Editorships

  • Guest Editor, Advances in Computational Science and Engineering, 2024
  • Editorial board, Fluids, 2021-present
  • Editorial board, Forces in Mechanics, Elsevier, 2020-present
  • Guest Editor, G.I. Taylor Medal Special Issue, Mechanics Research Communications, 2020

Conferences Organized or Chaired

  • Conference co-Chair, Isogeometric Analysis 2024, St. Augustine, FL
  • American Society for Civil Engineers (ASCE):  1. Committee member of Computational Mechanics of Engineering Mechanics Institute.  2. Committee member of Fluid Dynamics of Engineering Mechanics Institute. 3. Organize symposiums at Engineering Mechanics Institute Conferences and write reports to ASCE
  • American Society for Mechanical Engineers (ASME):  1. Serve as the vice chair of the Technical Committee on Computational Fluid-Structure Interaction.  2. Write reports to Applied Mechanics Division (AMD).  3. Organize symposium at ASME's International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition
  • U.S. Association for Computational Mechanics (USACM): 1. Serve as the vice chair of the Computational Fluid Dynamics and Fluid-Structure Interaction Technical Thrust Area (TTA) Committee of USACM. 2. Scientific committee member for 2021 and 2023 U.S. Congress for Computational Mechanics. 3. Local organizing member for 2021 U.S. Congress for Computational Mechanics. 4. Co-chair USACM FSI virtual seminar series. 5. Organize symposiums on CFD and FSI at the U.S. Congress for Computational Mechanics and ASCE Engineering Mechanics Institute. 6. Scientific committee member, 2022 Meshfree and Novel Finite Elements with Applications.

Presentations

  • Computational multi-physics for metal additive manufacturing: Defect, surface roughness, and powder spatter, 2024 Engineering Mechanics Institute Conference, 2024, Chicago
  • A diffusive-sharp interface computational framework for metal additive manufacturing, TMS 2024 Annual Meeting & Exhibition, 2024, Orlando
  • A diffusive-sharp interface computational framework for metal additive manufacturing, Advances in Computational Mechanics, 2023, Austin
  • Multi-physics modeling of metal additive manufacturing, SES Annual Technical Meeting, 2023, the University of Minnesota
  • Enriched immersed boundary methods for interface-coupled multi-physics, 17th U.S. National Congress on Computational Mechanics, 2023, Albuquerque
  • Enriched isogeometric methods, IGA 2022, 2022, Banff
  • A mixed interface-capturing and interface-tracking CFD framework for modeling metal AM processes at different scales, SES conference, 2022, TAMU
  • Physics-informed machine learning for metal additive manufacturing: processing modeling and powder spattering, SES conference, 2022, TAMU
  • A mixed sharp-diffusive interface formulation
 for laser-material interaction in metal additive manufacturing, AMS Central Meeting, 2022, The University of Texas at El Paso (Invited talk)
  • A mixed interface-capturing/interface-tracking formulation for thermal multi-phase flows with emphasis on metal additive manufacturing processes, 2022 NIST AM conference, 2022, Bethesda
  • A mixed interface-capturing/interface-tracking formulation for thermal multi-phase flows with emphasis on metal additive manufacturing processes, MRS Spring Meeting, 2022, Honolulu (Invited Keynote talk)
  • A mixed interface-capturing/interface-tracking formulation for thermal multi-phase flows with emphasis on metal additive manufacturing processes, EMI Conference, 2022, Johns Hopkins University
  • A mixed interface-capturing/interface-tracking formulation for thermal multi-phase flows with emphasis on metal additive manufacturing processes, ASCE Earth and Space, 2022, Denver
  • Physics-informed machine learning for CFD and FSI in civil engineering, Mechanistic Machine Learning and Digital Twins for Computational Science, Engineering & Technology, 2021, San Diego
  • Physics-informed machine learning for fluid-structure interaction problems, ISC 2021: International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) (online)
  • A mixed interface-capturing/interface-tracking formulation for thermal multi-phase flows with emphasis on metal additive manufacturing processes, National Congress for Computational Mechanics, 2021, Chicago
  • Free-surface flow modeling of tidal turbines, ASCE EMI conference 2021, 2021, Columbia University
  • Thermal fluid flows on moving domains with application to metal additive manufacturing, Asian Pacific Congress on Computational Mechanics, 2019, Taipei
  • Isogeometric thermal multi-phase flows with applications to metallic additive manufacturing, ASME’s International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, 2019, Salt Lake City
  • Variational multi-scale modeling of environmental flows, Society of Engineering Science-56th Annual Technical Meeting, 2019, Washington University in St. Louis
  • Isogeometric thermal multi-phase flows with applications to metallic additive manufacturing, 15th U.S. National Congress on Computational Mechanics, 2019, Austin
  • Isogeometric thermal multi-phase flows with applications to metallic additive manufacturing, Advances in Computational Fluid-Structure Interaction and Flow Simulation, 2019, Okinawa, Japan
  • Free-surface flow modeling of tidal turbines, Applied Energy Symposium and Summit, 2019, MIT
  • Free-surface flow modeling of tidal turbines, Finite Elements for Fluids, 2019, Chicago
  • Isogeometric methods in multi-phase flow problems, Workshop on Meshfree Method and Advances in Computational Mechanics, 2019, Pleasanton
  • Isogeometric thermal multi-phase flows with applications to metallic additive manufacturing, ASME's International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE), 2018, Pittsburgh
  • Isogeometric thermal multi-phase flows with applications to metallic additive manufacturing, Isogeometric Analysis: Integrating Design and Analysis (IGA 2018), 2018, Austin
  • Computational thermal multi-phase flows: From bubble dynamics to manufacturing processes, 2018 World Congress for Computational Mechanics, 2018, New York City
  • Computational thermal multi-phase flows: From bubble dynamics to manufacturing processes, 18th U.S. National Congress for Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, 2018, Chicago
  • Isogeometric analysis of multi-phase flows with surface tension and its application on bubble dynamics, Engineering Mechanics Institute Conference 2017, San Diego
  • Isogeometric free-surface fluid-structure interaction, USACM Conference on Isogeometric Analysis and Meshfree Methods, 2016, La Jolla
  • Computational free-surface FSI with applications, Engineering Mechanics Institute Conference 2016 (EMI 2016) and the Probabilistic Mechanics & Reliability Conference 2016 (PMC 2016), 2016, Vanderbilt University
  • Free-surface modeling of tidal stream turbines, 10th Southern California Symposium on Flow Physics (SoCal Fluids X), 2016, University of California, Irvine
  • Computational free-surface fluid-structure interaction with applications to offshore wind turbines, 13th U.S. National Congress on Computational Mechanics, 2015, San Diego
  • Computational free-surface fluid-structure interaction: aquatic sports, offshore floating wind turbines and numerical wave generation, Engineering Mechanics Institute Conference 2015, 2015, Stanford University
  • Computational free-surface fluid-structure interaction: aquatic sports, waves and floating wind turbines", 9th Southern California Symposium on Flow Physics, San Diego State University, 2015, San Diego
  • Isogeometric analysis of structures interacted with free-surface flow and its applications in offshore engineering", Isogeometric Analysis: Integrating Design and Analysis IGA2014, 2014, Austin

Professional Societies

  • U. S. Association for Computational Mechanics (USACM) (2015-present)
  • American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) (2018-present)
  • American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) (2018-present)
  • Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS) (2023-present)
  • Committee Member, Computational Mechanics Committee of Engineering Mechanics Institute, ASCE (2019-present)
  • Committee Member, Fluid Dynamics Committee of Engineering Mechanics Institute, ASCE (2020-present)
  • Vice-Chair, Technical Committee on Computational Fluid-Structure Interaction, Applied Mechanics Division, ASME (2020-present)
  • Vice-Chair, Computational Fluid Dynamics and Fluid-Structure Interaction Technical Thrust Area (TTA) Committee, USACM (2020-present)

Service on University Committees

  • Faculty Affiliate, IDEA, UIUC (2018-present)

Service to Federal and State Government

  • Grant Reviewer, National Science Foundation (2021)
  • Grant Reviewer, Army Research Office (2021)
  • Grant Reviewer, Department of Energy (2021)
  • Panelist, NSF, 08/2020
  • Grant Reviewer, Ministry of Science and Technology, Chile (2020)
  • Grant Reviewer, Research Grants Council (RGC) of Hong Kong (2014-present)

Other Outside Service

  • US Army: 1. Review panel for additive manufacturing. 2. ​ Review panel for computational mathematics
  • National Science Foundation (NSF): Review panel for fluid dynamics
  • Department of Energy (DOE): Review panel for advanced scientific computing research (ASCR).
  • Ministry of Science and Technology of Chile: Review panel
  • Research Grants Council (RGC) of Hong Kong: Review panel
  • Journal Reviewer, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, Journal of Computational Physics, ASCE Journal of Engineering Mechanics, ASCE Journal of Structural Engineering, Additive Manufacturing, Mechanics of Materials, Computers and Fluids, Computational Mechanics, ASME Journal of Applied Mechanics, Computers and Mathematics with Applications, Mathematical Models and Methods in Applied Sciences, Ocean Engineering, Transactions of the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering, Applied Mathematical Modelling, ASME Journal of Engineering Materials and Technology, Journal of Mechanics of Materials and Structures, ​ ASME Journal of Solar Energy Engineering, Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy, Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry, Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Environment International, Applied Energy, Journal of Manufacturing Processes, Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, Journal of Fluids and Structures, Journal of Fluids and Structures, Journal of Materials Processing Technology, Advanced Engineering Materials, SCIENCE CHINA Physics, Mechanics & Astronomy, Engineering with Computers, Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, Science Advances

Honors

  • Best Paper in Manufacturing Technology, Vertical Flight Society, 2024
  • Fellow, NSF CMMI Game Changer Academies, 2024
  • Gallagher Young Investigator Medal, U.S. Association for Computational Mechanics, 2023
  • Second Place in Additive Manufacturing Modeling Challenges, National Institute of Standards and Technology, 2022
  • Levenick Fellow, 2022
  • Robert M. and Mary Haythornthwaite Young Investigator Award, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2018
  • Finalist of Chancellor Dissertation Medal, University of California San Diego, 2017
  • Award for Outstanding Chinese Self-financed Students Abroad, 2016
  • Charles Lee Powell Fellowship, University of California San Diego, 2012
  • Presidential Fellowship, Peking University, 2009-2012
  • National Scholarship, 2008

Teaching Honors

  • List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent in Fall 2023 for CEE 598
  • List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent in Spring 2023 for CEE 490
  • List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent in Spring 2022 for CEE 490
  • List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent in Fall 2021 for CEE 360

Recent Courses Taught

  • CEE 360 - Structural Engineering
  • CEE 490 (CEE 498 CM3, CEE 498 CM4) - Computer Methods
  • CEE 598 ACM (CEE 598 ACO) - Advanced Computational Methods

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