{"id":31,"date":"2015-11-03T16:07:16","date_gmt":"2015-11-03T21:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test.eng.ufl.edu\/faculty-site\/?page_id=31"},"modified":"2025-12-18T16:19:03","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T16:19:03","slug":"bio","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/phillips-lab\/","title":{"rendered":"Bio"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Education<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"nobullet\">\n<li><b>Ph.D. in Civil Engineering,<\/b> May 2012<br \/>\nUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign<\/li>\n<li><b>M.S. in Civil Engineering,<\/b> May 2008<br \/>\nUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign<\/li>\n<li><b>B.S. in Civil Engineering,<\/b> May 2006<br \/>\nUniversity of Pittsburgh<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Professional Experience<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"nobullet\">\n<li><b>Associate Professor,<\/b> Department of Civil and Coastal Engineering, University of Florida (June 2019 &#8211; present)<\/li>\n<li><b>Associate Professor,<\/b> Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Maryland (July 2018 \u2013 May 2019)<\/li>\n<li><b>Assistant Professor,<\/b> Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Maryland (August 2012 \u2013 June 2018)<\/li>\n<li><b>Graduate Research Assistant,<\/b> Smart Structures Technology Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (August 2006 \u2013 May 2012)<\/li>\n<li><b>Visiting Researcher,<\/b> Kawashima Laboratory, Tokyo Institute of Technology (July, August 2007)<\/li>\n<li><b>Research Assistant,<\/b> Pavements Group, University of Pittsburgh (January 2005 \u2013 May 2006)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Awards<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>(2017) E. Robert Kent Teaching Award for Junior Faculty<\/li>\n<li>(2016) A. James Clark Student Competition Advisor Award<\/li>\n<li>(2011) Liu Huixian Earthquake Engineering Scholarship Award<\/li>\n<li>(2010) Structural Engineering Instructional Fellowship, University of Illinois<\/li>\n<li>(2008) NSF APSS Fellowship for Research in South Korea<\/li>\n<li>(2007) NSF EAPSI Fellowship for Research in Japan<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Education and Mentoring Activities<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Keystone Professor,<\/b> (July 2018 \u2013 May 2019)<\/li>\n<li><b>Faculty Advisor,<\/b> ASCE Student Chapter (January 2015 \u2013 present)<\/li>\n<li><b>Faculty Advisor,<\/b> ASCE Concrete Canoe Team (January 2015 \u2013 present)<\/li>\n<li><b>Faculty Advisor,<\/b> ASCE Steel Bridge Team (January 2015 \u2013 present)<\/li>\n<li><b>Coordinator,<\/b> Asia-Pacific Summer School on Smart Structures Technology (August 2008 \u2013 January 2010)<\/li>\n<li><b>Student Competition Director,<\/b> Asia-Pacific Summer School on Smart Structures Technology (July 2009)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Teaching<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Steel Structures I<\/b> (CEE460), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign<\/li>\n<li><b>Introduction to Engineering Design<\/b> (ENES100), University of Maryland<\/li>\n<li><b>Structural Steel Design<\/b> (ENCE455), University of Maryland<\/li>\n<li><b>Finite Element Methods<\/b> (ENCE611), University of Maryland<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Education Ph.D. in Civil Engineering, May 2012 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign M.S. in Civil Engineering, May 2008 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign B.S. in Civil Engineering, May 2006 University of Pittsburgh Professional Experience Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Coastal Engineering, University of Florida (June 2019 &#8211; present) Associate Professor, Department of Civil and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":402,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/page-sidebar-none.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"featured_post":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-31","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/phillips-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/phillips-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/phillips-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/phillips-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/402"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/phillips-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/phillips-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":256,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/phillips-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31\/revisions\/256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/phillips-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}