He received his PhD (2008) in Civil Engineering at the University of Mississippi. He is the Civil Engineering Department Graduate Program Coordinator. He is currently coordinating between the UTC Civil Engineering department and CSUST in China. He is currently serving as the editorial member and reviewer of Civil Engineering Journal and as a book reviewer for CRC Press. His research interests are nanomechanics of cement based materials, FEA modeling, computational mechanics, computational biomechanics. He is currently mentoring two graduate students and co-advising one graduate student. He proposed and designed one graduate/undergraduate level course: “Infrastructure Monitoring, Evaluation and Rehabilitation”.