He obtained the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in civil and coastal engineering at the University of Florida in 2003. His expertise is in high fidelity finite element analysis and its applications to solving large-scale nonlinear problems. At Bridge Software Institute, he is currently serving as a key contributor to the development and enhancement of Multi-Pier. His career goal is to contribute to high fidelity computational modeling and its application in advancing the basic computational methods to tackle new scientific challenges on new generations of large scale bridge engineering problems.

Jae's personal web site and Bio: http://users.ce.ufl.edu/~jchun