Ph.D. (Solid Mechanics), Brown University, 1998.
M.S. (Applied Mathematics), Brown University, 1995.
M.S. (Solid Mechanics), Xi'an Jiaotong University, 1990.
B.S. (Mechanical Engineering), Xi'an Jiaotong University, 1987.

Associate Professor, The University of Akron, Aug. 2006 – present
Summer Faculty Fellow, Office of Naval Research (ONR), May – July 2006
Assistant Professor, The University of Akron, Jan. 2001 – July 2006
Visiting Professor, National University of Singapore, July – Aug. 2005
Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Sept. 1997 – Dec. 2000
Visiting Scholar, Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden), Nov. 1996 – May 1997
Graduate Research Assistant, Brown University, Sept. 1992 – Aug. 1997
Assistant Professor, Northwestern Polytechnical University (China), June 1990 – Aug. 1992

American Society of Mechanical Engineers; American Society for Engineering Education; Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society

ONR Young Investigator Award, 2002

Solid mechanics
Computational modeling of deformation and failure process of metallic alloys
Ceramics and polymers
Nonlinear fracture mechanics
Mechanism-based approaches to predict material failure
Ductile fracture and ductile-brittle transition
Probabilistic models for fatigue and fracture
Mechanical behavior of new and advanced composite materials
Multi-scale modeling of damage and material characterization with microstructure