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Jan Wei Pan

JW Pan

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| Office | +1-434-766-6634 | Fax | +1-434-791-3279 | Postal Address | Institute for Advanced Learning and Research,
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Danville, VA 24540 USA |




Computational Mechanician
in advanced composite characterisation, parameter identification and information theory
see: Inverse Analysis, Composite Characterisation, Stochastic Analysis, Material Modelling.


Education


1. Ph.D. candidate (08/2008-present) Mechanical Engineering, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA
Supervisor: Associate Professor Tomonari Furukawa
Ph.D. research topic: Energy-based material characterisation for composite structures using information theory.

2. Ph.D. candidate (08/2006-08/2008) Computational Mechanics, University of New South Wales, Australia
Supervisor: Associate Professor Tomonari Furukawa
Co. Supervisors: Professor Don Kelly (UNSW) and Professor Israel Herszberg (CRC-ACS).
Ph.D. research topic: Energy-based material characterisation for composite structures using information theory.

3. B.E. (Hons) (received on 12/2005) Mechanical Engineering, University of New South Wales, Australia
Supervisor: Associate Professor Tomonari Furukawa
Co. Supervisor: Dr. Chern Ferng (Alex) Chung
Thesis: Bayesian estimation of forward reachable sets in pursuit evasion games.

4. Diploma (received on 12/2003) Mechanical Engineering, INTI College, Malaysia


Current Research Interests

    1. Energy-based elastic identification for material characterisation using information theory:

  • Anisotropic materials,
  • Nonlinear elastic behaviour, and
  • Full-field measurements.
    2. Optimal state estimation techniques for stochastic measurements:

  • Grid-based Bayesian filtering technique,
  • Kalman filters (e.g. Extended Kalman filter, Unscented Kalman flter, etc.), and
  • Minimum variance filtering techniques.


Professional Activities


1. Cooperative Research Centre for Advanced Composite Structures (CRC-ACS), since 2006.
2. International Association on Computational Mechanics (IACM), since 2006.
3. Australian Research Network for Advanced Materials (ARNAM), since 2006.
4. ASME - Applied Mechanics Division, since 2007.
5. Australian Association for Computational Mechanics (AACM), since 2007.
6. Australian Ceramic Society, since 2007.


Experiences


1. Design cum Quality Engineer, Sam McCoy (ITT Flygt Malaysia) Sdn Bhd, 12/2005-08/2006.
2. Tutor for several subjects, UNSW, 08/2006-08/2008.
3. Graduate Research Assistant, VT, 08/2008-present.


Awards


1. Graduate Research Assistantship, since 2008.
2. CRC-ACS Postgraduate Scholarship, 2006-2008.
3. University International Postgraduate Scholarship Award (UIPA), 2006-2009.
4. Faculty of Engineering, Dean's Honours List, 2005.
5. UNSW Silver Jubilee Scholarship, 2004-2005.
6. INTI Excellence Awards, 2001-2003.
7. INTI Award for Outstanding Students Scholarship, 2001-2003.


Publications and Presentations

[1] Jan Wei Pan, "Bayesian Estimation of Forward Reachable Sets in Pursuit Evasion Games", Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Dissertation, University of New South Wales, 2005.

[2] Jan Wei Pan and Tomonari Furukawa, “Comparison between Kalman Filter and Singular Value Decomposition for Energy-based Anisotropic Elasticity Characterization,” The 5th International Conference on Numerical Analysis in Engineering, Padang, Indonesia, May 18-19, 2007, pp. 1-10.

[3] Jan Wei Pan and Tomonari Furukawa, "Application of Kalman Filtering to the Continuum Materials Characterization", presented at Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, July 20, 2007.

[4] Jan Wei Pan, Tomonari Furukawa and David Kellermann, "Application of Kalman Filtering to the Energy-based Material Constitutive Modelling", Ninth U.S. National Congress on Computational Mechanics (USNCCM IX), San Francisco, July 22-26, 2007 (Abstract only), p. 2.

[5] David Kellermann, Tomonari Furukawa and Jan Wei Pan, "A Continuum Mechanics Solution for In-plane Shear Locking in Plate and Shell Elements", Ninth U.S. National Congress on Computational Mechanics (USNCCM IX), San Francisco, July 22-26, 2007 (Abstract only), p. 2.

[6] Jan Wei Pan, Tomonari Furukawa, Hou Man and Israel Herszberg, "Unscented Kalman Filtering for Elastic Identification of Composite Materials using the Energy-based Method", 14th International Conference on Composite Structures (ICCS/14), Victoria, Australia, November 19-21, 2007 (Abstract only), p. 2.

[7] Hou Man, Tomonari Furukawa, Jan Wei Pan and Israel Herszberg, "Constitutive Characterization of Composite Materials using the Data Driven Approach", 14th International Conference on Composite Structures, Victoria, Australia, November 19-21, 2007 (Abstract only).

[8] Jan Wei Pan, Tomonari Furukawa and Hou Man, “Kalman Filter Technique for the Energy-based Elastic Identification of Composite Materials,” 3rd Asian-Pacific Congress on Computational Mechanics (APCOM'07) in conjunction with 11th International Conference on Enhancement and Promotion of Computational Methods in Engineering and Science (EPMESC XI), Kyoto, Japan, December 3-6, 2007, pp. 1-10.

[9] Jan Wei Pan and Tomonari Furukawa, "Identification of Anisotropic Properties from Erroneous Full-field Measurements", 4th International Conference on Composites Testing and Model Identification, Dayton, Ohio, USA, October 20-22, 2008 (Presentation and abstract only).

[10] Tomonari Furukawa and Jan Wei Pan, "Stochastic Identification of Elastic Constants for Anisotropic Materials", International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, 2009, Accepted.

[11] Jan Wei Pan and Tomonari Furukawa, "Nonlinear Stochastic Modeling of Composites using the Energy-based Characterization", The Joint ASCE-ASME-SES Conference on Mechanics and Materials, Blacksburg, VA, USA, June 24-27, 2009, Submission ID: 928.

[12] Jan Wei Pan, Tomonari Furukawa and Hou Man, “Validation of the Stochastic Elastic Energy-based Characterization”, 10th US National Congress on Computational Mechanics (USNCCM X), Columbus, Ohio, July 16-19, 2009.


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