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YUAN Hongyan
Associate Professor
ASME Fellow
yuanhy3@sustech.edu.cn

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