Faculty

Jinying Zhu

Dr. Jinying Zhu joined the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2014.  She obtained her PhD degree from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2006.  Her research interests focus on nondestructive sensing and evaluation technologies for civil infrastructure using linear and nonlinear ultrasonic waves, air-coupled sensors, and ground penetrating RADAR.  She emphasizes fundamental understanding of how stress waves interact with complex materials, e.g. concrete,  and also keeps applications in mind.   She is the receipient of 2012 ASNT Fellowship Award, and fours graduate students advised by Dr. Zhu has won ACI-James Instruments Award.  Dr. Zhu is the main inventor of air-coupled sensing technology for concrete structures. 


Current Graduate Students

 

 

Yalei Tang

PhD graduate student Yalei Tang joined the NDT-CE lab in 2017 Fall. She holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in Civil Engineering from Southwest Jiaotong University, China.

Ali Soleimani Borujerdi (Co-advise with Dr. Congrui Jin)

PhD graduate student, Ali joined the NDT-CE lab in 2021 Fall. He obtained his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Civil Engineering from Isfahan University of Technology, Iran.

Clayton Malone

PhD graduate student Clayton obtained BS and MS degrees from UNL. He returned to UNL to start PhD study in 2022.

Jiuzhou Tu

PhD graduate student Jiuzhou joined the NDT-CE lab in 2022 Fall. He obtained his B.S. degree from Zhejiang University (China) and M.S. degree from University of Rhode Island, both in Ocean Engineering.

Mohammad Sajjad Roudsari

PhD graduate student Sajjad joined the NDT-CE lab in 2022 Fall. He obtained his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Civil Engineering from University of Guilan, Iran.

Shengyang Zeng

Visiting PhD student Shengyang Zeng joined the NDT-CE lab in 2022 Spring. He obtained his B.S. degree from Central South University, China.

Alumini

Alumini

Current position

Bibo Zhong, Ph.D. 2022 Idaho National Laboratory, ID
Sepehr Pashoutani, Ph.D. 2022
David Brodersen, MS, 2022
Hongbin Sun  Ph.D., 2020
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, TN
Clayton Malone, MS, 2020
Current position: Engineer, Olsson Associates Inc., NE
Hossein ArianNejad, MS, 2019
Shukui Liu, PhD, 2015 Associate professor, China University of Mining and Technology, China
Xiaowei Dai, PhD 2014 Engineer at Atkins, Houston
Yi-Te Tsai, PhD 2014 Engineer at KBR GVA, Houston
Eric Giannini, PhD 2012, (co-advise with Dr. Kevin Folliard) University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa. Moved to R J Lee Group since Sept. 2017.
Seong-Hoon Kee, PhD 2011 Assistant professor at Dong-A University, Korea
Suyun Ham, Postdoc 2015-2016 Assistant professor at University of Texas at Arlington (2016- )