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: Doctoral student, Haslam College of Business, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN.

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: Postdoctoral Scholar, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR.

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.

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.