| Education

• Ph.D., Dept. of Civil Engineering, University of California at Berkeley
• M.S., Dept. of Civil Engineering, University of Delaware
• B.S., Dept. of Civil Engineering, National Taiwan University

| Experiences 

• Minister without Portfolio, and concurrently Minister, Public Construction Commission, Executive Yuan

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• President, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (2005-2013)
• President, Association of National Technological Universities
• President, The Chinese Institute of Civil and Hydraulic Engineering
• President, Chinese Association for Cross-Strait Exchanges and Cooperation in Higher and Vocational Education
• President, Chinese Society of Structural Engineering
• President, Association of Technological and Vocational Education in the Republic of China
• Member of Board of Directors, Chinese Institute of Engineers

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• National Taiwan University of Science and Technology: Vice-President, Dean of Academic Affairs, Chairman of Department of Construction Engineering
• Director of the Center of Technological and Vocational Education, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology

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• Member, Supervisory Committee of Higher Education, Ministry of Education
• Member, Supervisory Board of Science Education, Ministry of Education
• Deputy Director General, National Expressway Engineering Bureau, Ministry of Transportation and Communications
• Editor-in-chief, Journal of The Chinese Institute of Engineers (SCI)
• Editor-in-chief, Journal of Technology (EI)
• Member of Board of Directors, Construction Management Association of the Republic of China

| ​Honor

• Fellow of Chinese Institute of Engineers
• “Award for Outstanding Contribution to Education”, World Marketing Summit, 2013
• “Special Service Award”, International Association for Life-Cycle Civil Engineering (IALCCE), 2012
• “International Cooperation Award” , Indonesia ITS University, 2009
• Outstanding Engineering Professor Award, The Chinese Institute of Engineers
• Outstanding Civil Engineering Alumnus, National Taiwan University
• Excellent Research Paper Award, Chinese Institute of Civil and Hydraulic Engineering
• Fellow, Chinese Institute of Civil and Hydraulic Engineering

| Research Fields

• Dynamic soil-structure interaction analysis, dynamic fluid-structure interaction analysis 
• Seismic analysis of building structures, seismic analysis of bridge systems, dynamic behavior of pavement systems