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Jinhui Yan

Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Address: Newmark 2106, 205 N. Mathews, Urbana, IL 61801, USA

Phone: 1-217-300-8184 (office)   ​Email: yjh”at”illinois.edu

I am currently an assistant professor at the department of civil and environmental engineering at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) since Fall 2018. I am also affiliated with the graduate program of computational science and engineering and the Advanced Digital Sciences Center at UIUC. My research lies in computational mechanics for fluid-structure interaction and multi-physics systems with applications. My CV is here CV.

Note: We have PH.D. student and postdoc positions in the group. Please contact me by email if you are interested.

Current Members:

  1. Ze Zhao, Ph.D. Student (BS, Peking University), 2019-present.
  2. Shashwot Paudel, Ph.D. Student (BS, Tribhuvan University, MS, University of Tokyo), 2022 -present
  3. Jongmin Rim, Ph.D. Student (BS and MS, Seoul National University), 2023 -present
  4. Haojia Cheng, Ph.D. Student, (BS, Zhejiang University), 2023 -present
  5. Xuguang Wang, Postdoc, (B.S and Ph.D., University of Toronto), 2021  – present
  6. Yongjia Xu, Postdoc (Ph.D., Tsinghua University), 2023  – present
  7. Kevin Danner, Undergraduate researcher, 2021 – present (visiting Waseda University, 2023 Spring).

Past members:

  1. Qiming Zhu, Ph.D. Student (Now: Associate Professor at Harbin Institute of Technology, Finalist, 2022 Robert J. Melosh Medal)
  2. Minjiang Zhu, Ph.D. Student (Now: Graduate student at UIUC, Aerospace Engineering)
  3. Jie Gao, Postdoc (Now: Assistant Professor at Huazhong University of Science and Technology)
  4. Songzhe Xu, Postdoc (Now: Assistant Professor at Shanghai University)
  5. Ning Liu, MS Student (Now: Graduate student at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
  6. Gurpreet Singh ​Hora, MS Student (Now: Graduate student at Columbia University)
  7. Napat Tainpakdipat, MS Student (Now: Graduate student at UIUC)
  8. Sophia Shi, Undergraduate researcher (Now: Graduate student at Duke University)
  9. Jeffery Dai, Undergraduate researcher (Now: Structural engineer at Burns and McDonnell)
  10. Zetian Li, Undergraduate researcher (Now: Graduate student at UC Berkeley)
  11. Sung-Min Moon, Undergraduate researcher (Now: Graduate student at UIUC)
  12. Muqaddas Farooqi, Undergraduate researcher (Now: UIUC)
  13. Yuhao Peng, Undergraduate  researcher (Now: Graduate student at Stanford University)