Education

• Ph.D. Materials Science and Engineering, Drexel University, 07/2004


• B.A. Manufacturing Engineering, Beihang University, 03/1999


• B.A. Metal Forming, University of Science and Technology Beijing, 07/1996

Expertise

1. Structure-property correlations of ceramic, high-temperature alloy, and microelectronic materials


2. Modeling and simulations of multi-scale and mulch-physics coupled phenomena

Interests

1. Additive manufacturing or 3D printing


2. Renewable energy (thermal barrier coating, lithium ion battery, hydrogen transport membrane, solid oxide fuel cell)


3. Multi-scale modeling (finite element method, discrete element method, molecular dynamics, ab initio method)


4. Coupled phenomena (thermal and electrical properties, mass transport), and their applications to processing (additive manufacturing, powder metallurgy, compaction and sintering, metal forming)


5. Ceramic materials for biomedical and power generation applications