Columbia University’s Associate Director, National Science Foundation Industry/University Cooperative Research Center for Energy Harvesting Materials and Systems, 2017 - Present
Renwick Professor of Civil Engineering, Columbia University, 2012 - Present
Director, Sensing, Monitoring, and Robotics Laboratory, Columbia University, 2012 - Present
Chancellor’s Professor, University of California, Irvine, 2011 - 2012
Endowed Chair in the Center for Diversity in Engineering Education, University of California, Irvine, 2009 - 2011
Founding Director, Center for Advanced Monitoring and Damage Inspection, University of California, Irvine, 2007 - 2011
Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Professor, University of California, Irvine, 1992 - 2011
CAREER Award by National Science Foundation (NSF) (1995)
The Alfred Noble Prize jointly by American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers (AIME), and Western Society of Engineers (WSE) (1995)
The Collingwood Prize by ASCE (1995)
Outstanding Achievement Award by Chinese Consulate General (1996)
Charles Pankow Finalist Award for Innovation by ASCE-CERF (1997)
Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize for innovative, interdisciplinary and practical research on sensing, monitoring and controlling dynamic response of civil engineering systems subjected to earthquake and wind loads, awarded by ASCE (1999)
Outstanding Research Award by CEE Department, University of California, Irvine (2000)
Outstanding Alumni Award by University of Electro-Communications, Japan (2001)
Top Researcher on Wearable Sensors by MIT Technology Review (2004)
Best Presentation Award by Society of Instrument and Control Engineers, Japan (2006)
Bridge Doctor, a special feature in NBC Nightly News (2007)
The Fariborz Maseeh Best Faculty Research Award by HSSoE, University of California, Irvine (2007)
Fellow, American Society of Civil Engineers (2008)
20 Women to Watch, OC Metro Business Magazine (2008)
Best Paper Award for “Robust Joint Torque Estimation and High-Speed Calibration for EMG Sensor Suits” published in Transactions of Society of Instrument and Control Engineers in 2006 by Society of Instrument and Control Engineers, Japan (2008)
Appointed Endowed Chair in Center for Diversity in Engineering Education by University of California, Irvine (2009)
Distinguished Mid-Career Faculty Award for Research by University of California, Irvine (2009)
Appointed Chancellor’s Professor by University of California, Irvine (2011)
Best Paper Award for the paper “Microwave Non-Destructive Evaluation of Corrosion in Reinforced Concrete Structures” that Best Advances the State-of-the-Art in Antenna Measurements by the 5th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, Rome, Italy (2011)
Top 20 Civil Engineering Professors by Online Engineering Programs (2016)
Research Areas
Foreign, Second, and Multilingual Language Education
Chair, Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, 2017-2023
Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Mechanics, Peking University Beijing, P. R. China, 1984-1988
Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Mechanical Engineering, The City College of the City University of New York, 1988-1989
Graduate Research Assistant, Orthopaedic Biomechanics Laboratory, Harvard University Medical School, 1990-1993
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Orthopaedic Research Laboratories, University of Michigan, 1993-1996
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Columbia University, 1996-1998
Chair, Graduate Committee, Center for Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, 1997-1999 Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, 1998-2001
Chair, Undergraduate Committee, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, 1999-2003
Chair, ABET Committee, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, 2004-2006 Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, (with tenure 2003) Department of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, 2001-2007
Associate Professor of Dental and Craniofacial Bioengineering (in Dentistry), College of Dental Medicine, Columbia University, 2004-2007 Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, 2007-
Chair, Undergraduate Committee, Department of Biomedical Engineering, 2009-2014 Vice Chair, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, 2014-2017
Chair, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, 2017-2023