Student

BS in Civil Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA. Master of Engineering research report: Estimating ship approach velocity with Delft3D. Graduated December 2010. Status: Returned to duty with U.S. Navy.

BS in Mechanical Engineering, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ. Masters of Engineering research report: Development of Delft-3D as a relocateable nearshore modeling system for naval applications. Graduated December 2008. Status: Returned to duty with U.S. Navy.

BS in Hydropower Engineering, Hohai University, Nanjing, People’s Republic of China. MS thesis: Multi-dimensional error analysis of nearshore wave modeling tools, with application toward data-driven boundary correction. Graduated December 2010. Status: Engineer with Det Norske Veritas USA, Houston, TX.

BS in Harbor, Water Channels and Coastal Engineering, Harbin Engineering University, Heilongjiang, People’s Republic of China. Master of Engineering project: Modeling of erosional hotspots. Graduated December 2018. Status: Assistant Professor of Decision Sciences, Department of Information Systems and Business Analytics, College of Business, California State University, Sacramento, CA. Web site.

BS, MS in Civil Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea. Ph.D. project: Development and implementation of a consistently-scaled, nonlinear frequency domain ocean wave model. Ph.D. dissertation: A consistent nonlinear frequency domain model for finite depth ocean wave propagation. Graduated May 2022. Status: Assistant Professor, Department of Ocean Engineering, Pukyong National University, Busan, Republic of Korea (starting March 2025). Research web page.

BS in Environmental and Civil Engineering, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan; MS in Civil and Earth Resources Engineering, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan. Ph.D. dissertation: Erosion of wetlands in Galveston Bay by ocean waves. Graduated May 2021. Status: Research Professor, School of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering, Korea University, Seoul, Korea (starting November 2024). Co-chair with Kuang-An Chang, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX. Research web page.

BS in Engineering Science and Ocean Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan. Master of Engineering research report: Storm surge modeling during Hurricane Ike with Delft3D – Manning coefficient sensitivity analysis. Graduated August 2018. Status: Water Resources Engineer, Dynamic Solutions International, LLC, Edmonds, WA.

BS, ME in Civil Engineering, Seoul National University of Science and Technology, Seoul, Republic of Korea. Ph.D. dissertation: Modeling of three-dimensional wind-driven hydrodynamic and environmental processes in the Arabian/Persian Gulf. Graduated August 2018. Status: Research Associate, Bureau of Economic Geology, Jackson School of Geosciences, University of Texas, Austin, TX.

BS in Civil Engineering, National Taipei University of Technology, Taipei, Taiwan; MS in Civil Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan. Ph.D. dissertation: Interaction of a turbulent wind with ocean surface waves – numerical modeling. Graduated December 2016. Status: Software Engineer, Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA. Co-chair with Reza Sadr, Texas A&M University Qatar.

BS in Oceanography, Nanjing University, Nanjing, People’s Republic of China; MS in Oceanography, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC. MS thesis: Riverine and sediment processes in the Yangtze River estuary – modeling and validation. Graduated December 2016. Status: Engineer with Moffatt and Nichol Engineers, Raleigh, NC.