Resume
Research Experience
- Conducts fundamental research on nonlinear mechanical systems using theoretical and experimental methods
- Develops material models based on fractional calculus for long-term deformation simulation of concrete structures via finite element methods
- Develops model-order reduction methods for nonsmooth piecewise linear systems by extending the parametrization method of invariant manifolds to nonsmooth settings
- Develops the Koopman-Hill projection method to assess stability of periodic solutions in nonlinear systems
- Researches higher-order time-integration methods for nonsmooth mechanical systems with frictional contact and impacts
- Develops a tendon-driven continuum robot with motion tracking for closed-loop force control
- Studies nonlinear dynamics of vibro-impact nonlinear energy sinks (NES) using the Method of Multiple Scales combined with impact-mapping approaches
- Extends the Hill stability method to analyze stability of fractionally damped mechanical systems
- Performs efficient simulations of complex multibody systems with contact, such as rockfall protection nets