About Me

Experience

  • Feb 2026 - Present
    Postdoctoral Researcher, Dept. of Civil & Environmental Engineering
    Princeton University
    Princeton, NJ
  • Jun 2020 - Aug 2020
    Summer Intern, Structural Engineering Group
    Arup
    Shanghai, China

Education

  • Sep 2020 - Nov 2025
    PhD
    Princeton University
    Princeton, NJ
    Civil and Environmental Engineering
    • Dissertation: Enhancing Coastal Resilience of Infrastructure via Structural Shape Modification and Optimization
    • Advisor: Prof. Maria Garlock
  • Sep 2020 - Jun 2022
    MA
    Princeton University
    Princeton, NJ
    Civil and Environmental Engineering
  • Sep 2016 - Jun 2020
    BEng
    Tongji University
    Shanghai, China
    Civil Engineering
    • 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
    Princeton University
    Princeton, NJ
    Spring 2022, Spring 2025
  • CEE 478: Senior Thesis
    Princeton University
    Princeton, NJ
    Fall 2024
  • CEE 102: Engineering in the Modern World
    Princeton University
    Princeton, NJ
    Spring 2023, Spring 2025
  • CEE 467: Design and Behavior of Steel Structures
    Princeton University
    Princeton, NJ
    Fall 2021

Academic Service

  • Referee for Journals
    Computers & Structures; Engineering Structures

Other Service

  • 2023 - 2025
    Residential Graduate Student
    Forbes College, Princeton University
    Princeton, NJ
  • 2023 - 2024
    Co-organizer and Barista
    CEE Coffee Hour
    Princeton, NJ
  • 2022 - 2023
    Co-organizer
    CEE Lunch Seminar
    Princeton, NJ