Assistant Professor, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, National Taiwan University

Ph.D., Civil Engineering, UT Austin

 

Education

Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin Aug. 2014 - May. 2019

• Major: Civil Engineering- Mechanics Uncertainty Simulation and Engineering

• Dissertation: Wind Turbine Loads in Thunderstorm Downbursts using Large-Eddy Simulation

• Advisor: Dr. Lance Manuel

M.S., National Taiwan University Sep. 2007 - Jun. 2009

• Major: Mechanical Engineering- Solid Mechanics

• Thesis: Stability Analysis of a Constrained Arch under Concentrated Moments

• Advisor: Dr. Chung-Jen Lu

B.S., National Taiwan University Sep. 2003 - Jun. 2007

• Major: Mechanical Engineering

 

Research Experiences

Wind Turbine Load Simulation under Thunderstorm Downbursts Aug. 2014- May 2019

• Estimated wind turbine loads using NREL FAST and coded in Fortran to input user winds.

• Ran CFD simulations in Linux system using an in-house large-eddy simulation (LES) model built with MATLAB code to generate wind fields.

• Generated storm-related inflow fields for a wind farm in TACC Stampede2 supercomputer using UNIX shell scripting to manage simulation jobs and process data.

• Analyzed the statistics of wind/load data to investigate the remarkable characteristics using MATLAB.

Stability Analysis of a Constrained Shallow Arch Sep. 2007- Jul. 2009

• Modeled a double-hinged arch under concentrated moments with a constraint plate based on Euler beam theory.

• Developed an original modification of energy method to treat the stability problem taking into account the constraints.

• Constructed a computational system in Mathematica to control numerical convergence and conduct the bifurcation analysis of multiple equilibrium solutions.

• Experimental measurements and correlations with theoretical predictions.

Modal and Response Spectrum Analysis of the Chassis Design for a Rack Server 2010- 2011

• Evaluated the anti-vibration ability of a rack server chassis and managed to improve the I/O rate of running hard disk drives.

• Modal and response spectrum analysis by using ANSYS Workbench.

• Verified design changes by experimental measurements.

Theoretical Study and Experimental Design of Phone Acoustics 2012-2013

• Designed an engineering process to improve the mechanical design for acoustic properties of VoIP deskphone products.

• Constructed fundamental equations to calculate acoustic properties of speaker and microphone.

• Set up the entire measurement system in anechoic room and developed programs to deal with sound signals in Labview.

 

Work Experiences

Seismic Imagining Analyst, CGG Inc. Sep. 2019 - Mar. 2021

• Explored oil and gas reservoirs in Gulf of Mexico by processing 3-D seismic data with cutting-edge mathematical models for subsurface imaging

• Created frameworks and computational jobs for data migration and implemented in high-performance computing centers

Mechanical Engineer, Sunonwealth Electric Machine Industrial Co. (SUNON) Jul., 2013 – Aug., 2014

• Mechanical design of DC brushless fans for server and an indoor air exchanger

Senior CAE Engineer, Wistron Corp. Oct., 2010 - May., 2013

• Development of mechanical design technology for large-scale rack servers

• Development of automatic simulation programs

 

Honors

• Scholarship to Study Abroad, Ministry of Education, 2017

• Kolodzey Travel Grant Award, CAEE, UT Austin, 2017

 

Research Interests

Wind Energy Engineering, Structural Dynamics, Wind Field Simulation, Computational Mechanics

 

Research Projects

Coupled Mesoscale-LES Modeling of Realistic Typhoon Boundary Layers and its Application for Load Estimation of Offshore Wind Turbines (MOST 2022-2024)