{"id":25,"date":"2013-02-26T20:39:52","date_gmt":"2013-02-26T20:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/template\/?page_id=25"},"modified":"2024-05-03T20:32:02","modified_gmt":"2024-05-03T20:32:02","slug":"biography","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/kong\/biography\/","title":{"rendered":"Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Education<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>2012: Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics with a minor in Cognitive Science, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities<\/li>\n<li>2006: M.S. in Astronautics and Mechanics, Harbin Institute of Technology, China<\/li>\n<li>2004: B.S. in Astronautics and Mechanics, Harbin Institute of Technology, China<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Appointments<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>07\/2020-present: Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, Davis<\/li>\n<li>01\/2015-06\/2020: Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, Davis<\/li>\n<li>11\/2012-12\/2014: Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Boston University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Professional Memberships<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), Member<\/li>\n<li>American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), Senior Member<\/li>\n<li>Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Senior Member<\/li>\n<li>Vertical Flight Society (VFS), Member<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Education 2012: Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics with a minor in Cognitive Science, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities 2006: M.S. in Astronautics and Mechanics, Harbin Institute of Technology, China 2004: B.S. in Astronautics and Mechanics, Harbin Institute of Technology, China Appointments 07\/2020-present: Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/kong\/biography\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-25","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/kong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/kong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/kong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/kong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/kong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/kong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":296,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/kong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25\/revisions\/296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/kong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}