Rate My Professor Yen-Fang Su

Yen-Fang Su, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, a position he has held since August 2022. He earned his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering with a specialization in Materials from Purdue University in 2021, a Master of Science in Civil Engineering focusing on Structural Engineering from National Central University in 2014, and a Bachelor of Science in Marine Environment and Engineering from National Sun Yat-sen University in 2012. Prior to joining LSU, Su served as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Professor Abir Al-Tabbaa’s laboratory in the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge from 2021 to 2022. His professional experience also includes roles as a Graduate Research Assistant and Teaching Assistant in Professor Luna Lu’s laboratory at Purdue University from 2017 to 2021, a Structural Engineer at the Ship and Ocean Industries R&D Center in New Taipei City, Taiwan, from 2014 to 2017, and a Graduate Research Assistant in Professor Chung-Chan Hung’s laboratory at National Central University from 2012 to 2014.

Su’s research interests encompass advanced low-carbon high durability cementitious materials and structures, 3D composite printing, digital construction, meta construction materials, intelligent IoT sensor and sensing approaches, robotic-based structural health monitoring (SHM), and artificial intelligence. His contributions to the field include key publications such as “Instantaneous monitoring the early age properties of cementitious materials using PZT-based electromechanical impedance (EMI) technique” (2019), “Embeddable piezoelectric sensors for strength gain monitoring of cementitious materials: the influence of coating materials” (2020), “Medium-term self-healing evaluation of engineered cementitious composites with varying amounts of fly ash and exposure durations” (2016), “Novel methodology on direct extraction of the strength information from cementitious materials using piezo-sensor based electromechanical impedance (EMI) method” (2020), and “Field implementation of piezoelectric sensor-based sensing technique for in-situ concrete compressive strength evaluation” (2021). Su has received notable awards including the ASCE GameChanger project award in 2021—recognizing his primary Ph.D. research—the William and Mary Goetz Graduate Scholarship from Purdue University in 2020, PGSG Travel Grant in 2020, and ACPA Concrete Pavement & Materials Science Scholarship in 2018 and 2019. His work has attracted funding from the National Science Foundation, including a $300,000 grant for advancing infrastructure monitoring using self-sensing materials, as well as support from the Office of Naval Research, Louisiana Board of Regents, and LSU Provost’s Fund for Innovation in Research.