PUBLICATIONS

• "Acoustic Emissions in Fracturing Sea Ice Plate Simulated by Particle System."
  ASCE, J. of Engineering Mechanics, 1998, Vol. 124, No. 1, pp69-79, with Bazant, Z.P.
• "Alternative Test Method for Resilient Modulus of Fine-grained Subgrades"
  ASTM, J. of Geotechnical Testing 1996, Vol. 19, No. 2, pp141-154, with Drumm, E.C., et al.
• "Zero Brittleness Test Method for Size Effect in Concrete Specimens."
  ASCE, J. of Engineering Mechanics, 1996, Vol. 122, No. 5, pp458-468, with Bazant, Z.P.
• "Size Effect and Fracture Characteristics of Composite Laminate."
  ASME, J. of Engineering Materials and Technology, 1996, Vol. 118, No. 3, pp317-324, with Bazant, Z.P., and Daniel, I. M.
• "Identification of Stress-Slip law for Fiber or Bar Pullout from Size Effect Tests."
  ASCE, J. of Engineering Mechanics, 1995, Vol. 121, No. 5, pp620-625, with Bazant, Z.P. and Thoma, M.
• "Rupture Modulus: Size Effect due to Fracture Initiation in Boundary Layer."
  ASCE, J. of Structural Engineering, 1995, Vol. 121, No. 4, pp739-746, with Bazant, Z.P.

• "Fracture Size Effect and Damage Properties of Quasi-Brittle Materials."
  1996 for Ph.D., Northwestern University, Dept. of Civil Engineering, Evanston, IL.
  Major: Structural Engineering & Material Science, GPA 3.9/4.0
• "An Alternative Test Method for Resilient Modulus of Fine-grained Subgrades."
  1992, for M.S., University of Tennessee, Dept. of Civil Engineering, Knoxville, TN.
  Major: Geotechnical Engineering, GPA 3.85/4.0
• "Damage Period Nonlinear Response of Masonry Stacks Subjected to Earthquakes."
  1984, for M.S., Science Academy of China & State Seismological Bureau, Institute of Engineering Mechanics, Harbin, China.
  Major: Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics, GPA 88/100
• "Equivalent Energy Method in Dynamic Analysis for Thick Shell Dam."
  1982, for B.S., Dalian Institute of Technology, Dept. of Engineering Mechanics,
  Dalian, China.
  Major: Computational Mechanics, GPA 86/100.

• Phi Kappa Phi National Honor Society, 1991.
• ASCE Student member, 1991.
• Fellowship, Center for Academic Excellence, University of Tennessee, 1990.
• Research Achievement Award, Shandong Province Government, China, 1986.

• MVS, JCL, UNIX, Shells, DOS, MSwindows, Client/Server, DB2, Oracle7, Ingres, Forms.
• C/C++, JAVA, COBOL II, JCL, FORTRAN, Visual Basic, SQL, HTML.
• S-Plus, MatLab, Mathematica, SAS, LaTex, miscellaneous.
• Time series and frequency spectrum analysis, Statistical and stochastic analysis.

1982-1984:

M.S. Research Assistant in Structural Dynamic
Inst. of Engineering Mechanics, Science Academy of China, Harbin, China.
Conducting vibration test of structure models on shake table; analyzing the vibration response spectra. Simulating structure's dynamic responses due to earthquake by FEM on computer.

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PROJECTS and GRADUATE COURSES

• Project on stock trading and portfolio management based on Markowitz diversification
• Project on interest rate term structure derivatives pricing and hedging by Ho and Lee, BDT, and CIR models
• Project on multi-parameters regression model for analysis of corporations profitability
• Project on GARCH model for volatility of the S&P 500 market index
• Project on Barrier option pricing by binominal and trinominal tree models and GUI implementation
• Computational Finance:
  Investment Analysis, Financial Analysis and Security Trading, Derivative Securities-Theory and Mathematical Model, Mathematical Statistics, Financial Data Lab, Statistical Inference, Advanced Probability and Martingales in Finance, Interest Rate and Term Structures, Dynamic Asset Pricing Theory, Stochastic Calculus and Finance, Artificial Intelligence in Finance, Object Oriented Programming.
• Mathematics:
  Advanced Calculus, Ordinary Differential Equations, Partial Differential Equations, Asymptotic Analysis and Perturbation Methods, Variational Calculus, Integral Equations, Probability and Statistics, Discrete Analysis and Numerical Methods, Advanced Algebra and Matrix Analysis, Applied Mathematics, Fourier Transform and Spectrum Analysis, Vector and Tensor Analysis, Finite Elemente Methods, Special Functions Analysis.
• Mechanics
  Elasticity, Plasticity, Finite Element Structural Analysis, Advanced Topics on FEM, Computational Fracture Mechanics, Inelastic Structural Analysis, Plate and Shell Analysis, Structural Stability, Structural Dynamics, Analytical Dynamics, Wave propagation in Solid, Vibration Test and Data Processing, Stochastic Processes and Random Vibration, Experimental Methods and Stress Analysis,
• Materials
  Material Strength, Materials Deformation and Fracture, Micromechanics, Composite Mechanics, Mechanical Metallurgy.
• Engineering
  Reinforced Concrete Structure Design, Pavement Design, Small Water Project/Dam Design, Soil Strength and Slope Stability, Soil Mechanics and Dynamics, Earthquake Engineering, Numerical Methods in Geotechniques.
• Geophysics
  Basic Geophysics: Concepts and Methods, Advanced Geophysics Topics.