About Me

Work experience

• Princeton University, 2026 – Present, Princeton, NJ
  • Postdoctoral Researcher, Dept. of Civil & Environmental Engineering
• Arup, Summer 2020, Shanghai, China
  • Summer intern, structural engineering group

Education

• Ph.D., Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton University, 2025
  • Dissertation: Enhancing Coastal Resilience of Infrastructure via Structural Shape Modification and Optimization
  • Advisor: Prof. Maria Garlock

• M.A., Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton University, 2022

• B.Eng., Civil Engineering, Tongji University, 2020
  • Graduated with honor: Outstanding Graduate Award of Shanghai Municipality (上海市优秀毕业生)

Teaching

• CEE 262: Structures and the Urban Environment, Spring 2022, 2025

• CEE 478: Senior Thesis, Fall 2024

• CEE 102: Engineering in the Modern World, Spring 2023, 2025

• CEE 467: Design and Behavior of Steel Structures, Fall 2021

Services

• Referee for Journals
  • Computers & Structures
  • Engineering Structures

• Residential Graduate Student at Forbes College, Princeton University, Fall 2023 to Spring 2025

• Co-organizer and Barista of CEE Coffee Hour, Fall 2023 to Fall 2024

• Co-organizer of CEE Lunch Seminar, Fall 2022 to Fall 2023

More about me…

I am from Chengdu (成都), a city in southwest China. I love our dialects, our amazing food and of course, pandas!

In my free time, I enjoy a variety of sports - tennis, soccer, badminton, and indoor rock clmbing. I love listening to music - I am a proud top 1% listener of Wu Bai and Faye Wong, according to Spotify.