YUAN Hongyan
Associate Professor
ASME Fellow
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Mechanobiology at cellular and micro-tissue scales
Mechanics of soft materials and flexible structures/machines
Design and fabrication of organ-on-chips
Growth-type robotic manipulators
Structural integrity analysis of foldable/rollable screens
EDUCATION
| 07/2002 | BEng, Engineering Mechanics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China |
| 07/2007 | MS, Mechanical Engineering, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK |
| 08/2010 | PhD, Engineering Science and Mechanics, Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA |
PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
| 06/2019-Present | Associate Professor, Department of Mechanics and Aerospace Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China |
| 08/2014-05/2019 | Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical, Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI, USA |
| 08/2012-08/2014 | Postdoctoral Fellow in Bioengineering, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA |
| 01/2011-07/2012 | Postdoctoral Fellow, Solid Mechanics Group, School of Engineering, Brown University, Providence, RI |
