He was a postdoctoral scholar at UCLA Mathematics Department between 2015-2017. He obtained his PhD degree in Computer Science from UCLA in 2015, awarded the UCLA Engineering School Edward K. Rice Outstanding Doctoral Student. His primary research interests are computational solid/fluid mechanics, scientific computing, physics-based animation for computer graphics and their applications in computer vision, cognition and medicine. More details can be found in his webpage http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~cffjiang/