l  Ph.D. in Applied Mechanics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta,USA. 1985 - 1988.

l  M.S. in Engineering Mechanics, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian,China. 1978 -1981.

l  B.S. in Engineering Mechanics, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China. 1975 - 1978.

l  Professor, Department of Mechanics, Tianjin University, Tianjin,  China, 2006 to present.

l  Professor, School of Material Engineering, Suzhou University, Suzhou,  China, 2001 - 2006.

l  Principal Research Engineer, Institute of High Performance Computing, Singapore, 1998-2001.

l  Senior Research Engineer, Center for Computational Mechanics,  National University 

    of Singapore,Singapore, 1995 - 1998.

l  Research Fellow, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology,  Hong Kong. 1991 - 1995.

l  Research Associate, Louisianan State University, Baton Rouge, USA,  1989 - 1991.

l  Research Assistant, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA,   1985 - 1988.

l Assistant Lecturer/Lecturer, Research Institute of Engineering Mechanics, 

   Dalian University of Technology, China, 1981-1985.

Solid Mechanics;  Computational structural mechanics;  Mechanics of composite materials; 

Computational material science;  Computer modeling and simulation in engineering and sciences.