He obtained his B.S. and M.S. degrees from Department of Aerospace Engineering of Northwestern Polytechnical University in 1981 and 1984 respectively. He got his Ph.D. in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics from  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1992.  During 01/1992 and 04/1994 he was doing post doc research in Iowa State University. He was an Professor at University of Cincinnati during 09/1996 and 04/2018 and has been a chair Professor at Southern University of Science and Technology since 04/2018. Dr. Liu’s research interests are in computational mechanics, especially modeling of advanced materials (including composites, nanomaterials, biomaterials and MEMS) and wave propagation problems (acoustic and elastic waves). He has been focusing on large-scale modeling of materials/devices at the micro-length scale for which the continuum mechanics based approaches can be employed. He is specialized in the boundary element method (BEM), for which he has devoted his research efforts for more than 20 years.

Research Interests:

• Computational mechanics, fracture mechanics, computational structural dynamics and acoustics

• The boundary element method (see An Introduction to the BEM), especially the fast multipole and adaptive cross approximation BEM (FastBEM) for solving large-scale engineering problems

• Large-scale, multi-scale and multi-physics modeling of composites, nanomaterials, and biomaterials

• Large-scale modeling of acoustic and elastic wave propagation problems with the BEM

• BEM software development (FastBEM software)

Teaching Interests:

• Introductory courses in engineering mechanics (Statics, Dynamics and Vibration)

• Solid Mechanics, Elasticity, Fracture Mechanics, Elastodynamics, Energy Methods in Mechanics

• Finite Element Method, Boundary Element Method, Computational Acoustics

Education:

• Ph.D., 1992, Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, U.S.A. (Advisor: Professor Frank J. Rizzo)

• M.S., 1984, Solid Mechanics (in Aerospace Engineering), Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, China (Advisor: Professor Tianqi Ye)

• B.S., 1982, Structural Mechanics (in Aerospace Engineering), Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, China

Academic Experience:

• 9/10-pres.     Professor, Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio

• 2/12-5/12     Visiting Scholar, Department of Mechanical Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong

• 5/04-9/04     Visiting Professor, Department of Engineering Mechanics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

• 9/03-4/04     Visiting Professor/JSPS Senior Researcher Fellow, Academic Center for Computing and Media Studies, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

• 9/00-8/10     Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio

• 9/96-8/00     Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical, Industrial and Nuclear Engineering, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio

• 1/92-3/94     Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Center for Nondestructive Evaluation, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa

• 1/90-12/91   Teaching and Research Assistant, Department of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois

• 1/88-12/89   Teaching and Research Assistant, Department of Engineering Sciences and Mechanics, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa

• 8/87-12/87   Teaching and Research Assistant, Department of Engineering Mechanics, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky

• 9/84-7/87     Lecturer, School of Aerospace Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, China

Industry Experience:

• 3/95-7/96     CAE Analyst, CAE Department, Advanced Vehicle Technology, Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, Michigan

• 1/95-3/95     Structural Analysis Engineer, Weidlinger Associates, Inc., New York City

• 3/94-5/94     Engineering Software Specialist, MSC/PDA Engineering, Costa Mesa, California

Membership in Professional Societies:

• Fellow of ASME (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers), 2015

• Member of IACM (International Association for Computational Mechanics), since 1991

• Member of USACM (U.S. Association for Computational Mechanics), since 1991

• Member of IABEM (International Association for Boundary Element Methods), since 1992

• Member of Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society, 1998-2003

Professional Services:

• Member of the Executive Council of IABEM, 2011-2018

• Member of the Editorial Board for Computers & Structures, since 2017

• Member of the Editorial Board for Engineering Analysis with Boundary Elements, since 2009

• Member of the Editorial Board for Electronic Journal of Boundary Elements, since 2003

• Member of the Editorial Board for Journal of Integral Equations and Applications, since 2015

• Panel reviews of proposals for the US National Science Foundation, 2008, 2010

• Reviewer for more than 20 technical journals, since 1994

• Member of the Executive Local Organizing Committee, The Tenth US National Congress on Computational Mechanics, Columbus, Ohio, July 13-19, 2009

• Co-organizer, NSF Workshop on the BEM: Bridging Education and Industrial Applications, Minneapolis, Minnesota, April 23-26, 2012

• Co-organizer, NSF Workshop on the Emerging Applications and Future Directions of the BEM, Akron, Ohio, September 1-3, 2010

Honors and Awards:

• Distinguished Engineering Researcher Award, College of Engineering & Applied Science, University of Cincinnati, 2013

• Du Qinghua Medal for Computational Methods in Engineering, China, 2012

• National “thousand talents plan” , China, 2011

• JSPS (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science) Fellowship for Senior Researchers, 2004

• Chunhui Fellowship of the Ministry of Education of China, 2004

• Research Award for Young Faculty, College of Engineering, University of Cincinnati, 2002