Ph.D. (Ongoing), Structural Engineering, University of California San Diego, 2024~present 

GPA: 3.78/4.0

B.S., Civil Engineering, Shandong Jiaotong University, 2021~2024 (3 years). 

GPA: 3.8/4.0, 1/258 (0.39%)

Research Assistant, Tsinghua University, May 2023 - June 2024

Development of granular software (Cosim-DEM)

Research Assistant, Shandong University, Dec. 2022 - Aug. 2024

Oblique Impact Breakage Unification

Visiting Student, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Oct. 2022 - Dec. 2022

Completed coursework: Structures for Civil Engineering and Architecture

Concrete Structures: Principles, Performance, and Applications

• Centrifuge and Full-Scale Physical Modeling of Geotechnical Systems

• Energy Geotechnics (Anchors for Renewable Energy Systems)

• Advanced Computational software

• Seepage Safety Risk Coupling for Earth and Rock Dams

• Asphalt and Concrete in Infrastructure Construction 

● National Scholarship (Top 0.2% nationwide, the highest honor for undergraduates in China, Oct. 2022); 

● Outstanding Graduate Scholarship (Feb. 2024) (No. 1)

● Outstanding Member of Summer Camp awarded by Shandong University (Aug. 2023)

● Outstanding Student (2021/22) (No. 1)

● Second Prize, 6th Intelligent Transportation Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition (Mar. 2023)

● Excellent Student Cadres (2021/22)

● Second Prize, Sino-Foreign Media Cup National College English Writing Competition (Dec. 2022)

● Third Prize, College Student Mathematics Competition (Oct. 2022)

● Individual Excellence Award, 15th Advanced Mapping Technology and Information Modeling Innovation Competition for College Students (May 2022)

● Third Prize, Yice Cup Building Information Model (BIM) (Oct. 2021)

• Tomac, I., Lin, Y., Shen, Y., and McCartney. (2025). “Low-Cost Anchorage of Floating Wave Energy Generators.” 3rd International Conference on Energy Geotechnics. Paris.

• Lin, Y., and McCartney, J. S. (2025). “Wind Energy Area Site Characterization and Geotechnical Anchor Analysis.” Research Expo 2025, San Diego, USA. 

• Di Peng, Lige Wang, Yuquan Lin, etc., Oblique Impact Breakage Unification of Nonspherical Particles using Discrete Element Method (DEM), Jul/2024, Particuology, Volume 90, July 2024, Pages 61-71.

• Haolin Jiang, Yue Yu, Hao Liang, Yuquan Lin*, etc., Analysis of Taxi Drivers' Decisions at the Airport Based on a Profit-driven System, Accepted, 4th International Conference on Applied Mathematics, Modelling and Intelligent Computing (CAMMIC 2024).

• Yuquan Lin, Research on the Effect of Sand Content on Stress and Durability of Cement, 03/2023, Stanford, United States of America, Journal of Physics: Conference Series, Volume 2608.

• Kun Wang, Qiong Wu, Peng Hu, Hao Xu, Lu Qu, Xiongao Li, Yuquan Lin, etc., Road Performance and Microscopic Mechanism Analysis of Modified Straw Fiber Asphalt Binder, 01/2023, Advances in Materials Science and Engineering, Volume 2023 | Article ID 2328556.