Personal
  Date and place of birth: July 1976, Suzhou, P. R. China.

Working Experience
  Associate Professor, Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering, Columbia University, July 2009-present.
  Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, Columbia University, January 2007- June 2009.
  Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, Columbia University, July 2003- December 2006.
  Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Harvard University, May 2001- June 2003 (Advisor: Professor John W. Hutchinson).

Education
  Ph.D., Solid Mechanics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, May 2001. Advisor: Professor John W. Hutchinson. Thesis Title: Foreign Object Damage and Fatigue Cracking.
  S.M. , Engineering Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, May 1998 (Advisors: Professors John W. Hutchinson and Anthony G. Evans).
  M.E. , Engineering Mechanics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, P. R. China, June 1997 (Advisor: Professor Keh-Chih Hwang).
  B.E. , Special Class of Gifted Youth and Engineering Mechanics, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, P. R. China, June 1994.

Awards and Honors
  Outstanding Oversea Young Investigator Award, National Science Foundation of China, 2009.
  Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), nominated by NSF, awarded by President George W. Bush in White House in December 2008.
  NSF CAREER Award, March 2007.
  NSF Summer Institute Fellowship in nanomechanics, August 2006.

Professional Affiliations
  Member, American Academy of Mechanics.
  Member, American Society of Civil Engineering.
  Member, American Society of Mechanical Engineering.
  Member, Materials Research Society.

Professional Activities
  Chair, Technical Committee, Multifunctional Materials, Materials Division, ASME.
  Technical Committee Member, Integrated Structures, Applied Mechanics Division, ASME.
  Technical Committee Member, Inelastic Behavior, Engineering Mechanics Division, ASCE.
  Technical Committee Member, Biomechanics, Engineering Mechanics Division, ASCE.

Associate Editor
  Mechanics Research Communications.