Chao Sun
Main research area: Condition Monitoring and Remote Sensing
Biography
Chao Sun is an Associate Professor of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Louisiana State University. He earned his Ph.D. degree from the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at Rice University in 2013. Before joining LSU, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Dynamics and Sensing Lab at Rice University and as a senior structural engineer at INTECSEA Inc. WorleyParsons in Houston. His research mainly focuses on developing multi-hazard resilient, sustainable, and intelligent critical infrastructure systems (bridges, buildings, offshore wind, oil/gas pipelines, electric power grids, etc.) facing aging issues and extreme tropical cyclones. With his co-workers, he has completed research projects on smart sensing and damage diagnosis of oil/gas pipelines, offshore wind turbines and bridges using advanced signal processing, computer-vision techniques, and physics-guided machine learning. Dr. Sun’s research has been supported by DoT, LA NASA, LTRC, LABOR, NASEM, NSF, and private industry. Dr. Sun has published over 80 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers/abstracts. He serves as the Associate Editor of Structural Control and Health Monitoring and is an Editorial Board member of Ocean Systems Engineering, An International, Smart Construction and Sustainable Cities, and Wind Energy and Engineering Research. He is a member of several ASCE EMI and SEI committees. He is the faculty advisor of the ASCE Student Chapter at LSU. He received the ASCE (Louisiana Branch) Outstanding Educator Award, the Louisiana Sea Grant Fellow, and the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine Early Career Research Fellow.