Meet Jian-Qiao Sun  
Jian-Qiao Sun
School of Engineering
University of California, Merced

Dr. Jian-Qiao Sun earned his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley in 1988. From 1991 to 1994, he worked for Lord Corporation at their Corporate R&D Center in Cary, North Carolina, and engaged in smart materials research, and acoustic-structural controls since then. In 1994, Dr. Sun joined the faculty of the department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Delaware as Assistant Professor, was promoted to Associate Professor in 1998 and to Professor in 2003. Currently, he is a Professor of School of Engineering at UC Merced. He was an Associate Editor of ASME Journal of Vibration and Acoustics since 1994 to 2000, and has been an Associate Editor of Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulations since 2001. He is also an Editorial Board Member of Acta Mechanica Solida Sinica, Journal of Sound and Vibration, and Journal of Vibration and Control. His research interests include nonlinear random vibrations, nonlinear dynamics and controls, active structural-acoustic control, measurement of mechanical properties of nano-bio-fibers, and physical therapy applications of smart materials and controls. He has had extensive research funding from Army Research Office, Office of Naval Research, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, National Science Foundation, National Institute of Healthy, and private industries. Dr. Sun has supervised 23 graduate students in the past 13 years, 12 of them were doctoral students. He published over 100 refereed journal articles in additional to a large number of conference presentations and technical reports, and has given numerous invited talks at universities all over the world. Recently, Dr. Sun authored a book entitled “Stochastic Dynamics and Control” and co-edited a book entitled “Bifurcation and Chaos in Complex Systems” both published by Elsevier.



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