Assistant Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
3240K Patrick F. Taylor Hall
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA 70803
Phone: (225) 578-8511 / Fax: (225) 578-4945
Email: csun@lsu.edu
Educational Background
Ph.D., 2013, Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA, Emphasis on Nonlinear Dynamics, Vibration Control and Data Acquisition
M.S., 2009, Tongji University, Shanghai, China, Emphasis on Digital Image Based Constitutive Modeling and Damage Mechanics of Concrete
B.S., 2006, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, China, Major in Civil Engineering and Minor in Business Administration
Employment History
August 2015 - present, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Louisiana State University
January 2014 - August 2015, Senior Structural Engineer, INTECSEA Inc., WorleyParsons Group
October 2013 - July 2015, Postdoctoral Researcher (part time), Rice University
Research Interests
Dynamics, Sensing and Adaptive Control;
Multi-hazards Mitigation for Coastal and Offshore Structures;
Hydrodynamics, Fluid Structure Interaction between Ocean Waves and Structures;
Analytical, Numerical and Experimental Modeling of Nonlinear Vibrations;
Vibration Based System Identification and Damage Detection;
Energy Harvesting from Ambient Vibrations and Ocean Waves;
Other Dynamics related areas.
