PROFESSIONAL

• Associate Professor, Dept. of Mechanical and Energy Engineering, Univ. of North Texas, Denton, TX, 09/2017-
• Associate Professor, Dept. of Engineering Technology, Univ. of North Texas, Denton, TX, 09/2014-08/2017
• Assistant Professor, Dept. of Engineering Technology, Univ. of North Texas, Denton, TX, 06/2008-08/2014
• Postdoctoral researcher, Dept. of Material Science and Engineering, The Ohio State Univ. Columbus, OH, 01/2008-06/2008

EDUCATION

• Ph.D., Engineering Mechanics, University of Nebraska (UNL), Lincoln, NE, Aug 2007 
  Dissertation: The Effect of Mechanical and Electrical Biasing Fields on Piezoelectric Resonators
• M.S., Solid Mechanics, Northwestern Polytechnical University (NPU), Xi’an, China, April 2001
  Thesis: Active Vibration Control of Piezoelectric Intelligent Structure Based on Neural Network
• B.S., Engineering Mechanics, Hunan University, Changsha, China, July 1997

INDUSTRIAL AND ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT

• 09/2014-, Associate Professor with Tenure, University of North Texas, Denton, TX
• 06/2008-08/2014, Assistant Professor (Tenure Track), University of North Texas, Denton, TX
• 05/2009-08/2009, Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE
• 01/2008-06/2008, Postdoctoral researcher, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
• 08/2002-07/2007, Graduate Research Assistant, Dept. of Engineering Mechanics, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE
• 04/2001-07/2002, Research Associate, Dept. of Aircraft Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnic University, Xian, China
• 09/1998-04/2001, Research Assistant, Dept. of Aircraft Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnic University, Xian, China

INDUSTRIAL EXPERIENCE

• 07/2007-10/2007, Staff hardware engineer, Keyeye Communications Inc., Sacramento, CA
• 09/1997-08/1998, Mechanical Engineer, Aircraft Strength Research Institute of China AVIC