He received his B.S. (2003) and M.S. (2005) degrees in Engineering Science and Ocean Engineering from National Taiwan University, and his M.S.E. (2008) degree in Engineering Mechanics from the University of Texas at Austin. He earned his Ph.D. Degree in Structural Engineering from University of California, San Diego in 2012. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences (ICES) before he joined Iowa State University in Fall 2013. He was recently identified as Highly Cited Researchers 2016 by Thomson Reuters for the period 2004 through 2014.