Achievements
Engineer, Researcher, Senior Researcher & Team Leader, Sinotech Engineering Consultants, Ltd. (1993/06–2008/07)
Director, 9th Board of Directors, Taiwan Geotechnical Society
Chairperson, Committee of Affairs Planning and Membership, 8th Board of Directors, Taiwan Geotechnical Society
Scientific Committee Member, ICCES Special Symposium on Meshless & Other Novel Computational Methods, International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences (2011)
Committee Member, Education Committee, 7th Board of Directors, Taiwan Geotechnical Society
Member, Executive Committee, 14th Geotechnical Engineering Symposium
Keynote speaker, International Conference on Computational and Experimental Engineering and Science, 2010.
Session chairman, 2010 Young Southeast Asian Geotechnical Conference, Taiwan.
International reviewer of research proposal, National Center of Science and Technology Evaluation, Ministry of Education and Science, Astana, Republic of Kazakhstan, 2011.
Scientific Committee Member, ICCES Special Symposium on Meshless & Other Novel Computational Methods, 2011
Invited speaker, International Conference Computational and Experimental Engineering and Science, 2011
Session Co-Chairman, the 45th U.S. Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium, American Rock Mechanics Association, 2011.
Committee Member, Technical Committee on National Standards for Civil Engineering and Architecture, Bureau of Standards, Metrology and Inspection, Ministry of Economic Affairs (2012–2013)
International reviewer of research proposal, National Center of Science and Technology Evaluation, Ministry of Education and Science, Astana, Republic of Kazakhstan, 2014.
Editor, Journal of Marine Science and Technology (SCI-indexed international journal) (since 2014/08)
Technical Committee Member, Discontinuous Deformation Analysis, International Society for Rock Mechanics (ISRM) (2011–2015)
Member of Technical Committee on National Standards for Environmental Protection, Bureau of Standards, Metrology and Inspection, Ministry of Economic Affairs, ROC (2013–2015)
The international examiner of Doctor of Philosophy thesis, Griffith University, Australia (2015)
Reviewer and Translator, Geotechnical Terminology Review Committee for Civil Engineering, National Academy for Educational Research, Republic of China (since 2015)
Member, Faculty Evaluation Committee, National Taiwan Ocean University (August 2015 – July 2016)
Deputy Director, 10th Technical Committee, Taiwan Geotechnical Society (2015/05-2017/03)
Member, 10th Committee for Society Affairs Planning and Membership, Taiwan Geotechnical Society (2015/05-2017/03)
Certified Type-A Occupational Safety and Health Management Supervisor (Certificate, 2018/10)
Member of the Examination and Grading Committee for National Examinations, Ministry of Examination, Examination Yuan (2018)
Editorial Board of Section ‘Energy’ in the journal Applied Sciences (a SCIE international journal since 2018)
Editorial Board Member of Applied Sciences (since 2019)
Section Board Member of Applied Sciences (since 2019)
Review Committee Member, Disaster Prevention Thematic Projects, Department of Natural Sciences and Sustainable Development, Ministry of Science and Technology (2019/01-2021/12)
Guest Editor of Special Issue “Heat and Mass Transfer: Fundamentals and Applications in Thermal Energy” of Applied Sciences (2019)
Guest Editor of Special Issue Heat and Mass Transfer: Advances in Heat and Mass Transfer in Porous Materials (Volume II)” of Applied Sciences (2020)
Guest Editor of Special Issue “Leading edge technology on groundwater flow” of Applied Sciences 2020
Technical Review Committee Member, Offshore Wind Farms, Bureau of Standards, Metrology and Inspection, Ministry of Economic Affairs (since 2020/06)
Member, Editorial and Publication Committee, Geotechnical Engineering Research and Development Foundation (since 2021)
Invited speaker, “Reviewing and characterizing regional land subsidence in Yunlin county, Taiwan”, Taiwan International Water Week (2021)
Invited speaker, “Modeling Flow in Porous Medium Using the Collocation Trefftz Method for Discontinuous Deformation Analysis”, The 15th International Conference on Analysis of Discontinuous Deformation (ICADD15), Japan(2021)
Session Chairman, The 15th International Conference on Analysis of Discontinuous Deformation (ICADD15), Japan (2021)
Certified Instructor, Disaster Prevention Specialists, Ministry of the Interior (since 2021)
Guest Editor of Special Issue “Leading Edge Technology on Land Subsidence” of Applied Sciences (2022)
Member, Land Subsidence Prevention Promotion Committee, Ministry of Economic Affairs (since 2022/02)
Editorial Board Member, "Nature, Scientific Reports" SCI journal, Q1-ranked) – the only editor from Taiwan in the field of Civil Engineering (since 2024/11)
National Members of the Board of Examiners, Ministry of Examination, ROC (2024)
Awards
Excellent Paper Award, 2006 Rock Engineering Symposium
Academic Achievement Award, National Taiwan Ocean University, 2009
First Prize, Engineering Paper Award, 2010 Rock Engineering Symposium
Academic Achievement Award, National Taiwan Ocean University, 2010
Highly Cited Paper Award (ESI Database), National Taiwan Ocean University, 2010
Academic Achievement Award, National Taiwan Ocean University, 2011
Outstanding Young Scholar Research Grant (Individual), National Science Council, Executive Yuan, 2011
University-Level Excellent Teaching Award, National Taiwan Ocean University, 2011
Social Service Contribution Award, National Taiwan Ocean University, 2013
Honored with the “Enhancing Social Service” award from Ocean University in 2013 and received a letter of appreciation from the university.
Assisted the Keelung City Government in implementing the Ministry of the Interior’s Disaster Prevention and Relief Program and received a letter of appreciation from the Keelung City Government in February 2014.
Meritorious Research Award, Cooperative Research Project, Institute of Transportation, Ministry of Transportation and Communications, June 2015
Meritorious Research Award, Cooperative Research Project, Institute of Transportation, Ministry of Transportation and Communications, June 2016
Outstanding Teaching Faculty Award, National Taiwan Ocean University (July 2017, only one recipient in the entire university)
Excellence Award in Paper Competition, 2018 Annual Conference of the Geological Society and Geophysical Society of the Republic of China
Excellent Paper Award, 2018 Rock Engineering Symposium
Outstanding Research Performance Award, National Taiwan Ocean University, 2019
Awarded the Merit Award for the Ministry of the Interior’s Disaster Prevention and Relief Program in 2019.
Outstanding Research Performance Award, National Taiwan Ocean University, 2020
Outstanding Research Performance Award, National Taiwan Ocean University, 2021
Received the Excellence Award for the Ministry of the Interior’s Disaster Prevention and Relief Program from 2020 to 2022.
Distinguished Talent Award (Ministry of Science and Technology Grant), National Taiwan Ocean University, 2011–2022
Honored with the Excellence Award for the Ministry of the Interior’s Resilient Taiwan Large-Scale Disaster Response and Coordination Project in 2023.