工作经历

◆ 2011/1 – 2012/7， 布朗大学 工程院 博士后
◆ 2012/8 – 2014/8， 哈佛大学 科学与工程学院 博士后
◆ 2014/9 – 2019/5， 罗德岛大学 机械与工业系统工程系  助理教授
◆ 2019/6 至现在，南方科技大学 力学与航空航天系 副教授

学习经历

◆ 1998 – 2002,     清华大学 工程力学系 本科
◆ 2005 – 2007，阿拉斯加大学 硕士研究生
◆ 2007 – 2010，宾州州立大学 博士研究生

研究方向

◆柔性/软体机器人的力学与控制
◆生物力学

所获荣誉

2014-2015, Haythornthwaite Research Initiation Grant Award, 美国机械工程师协会（ASME）

2020,入选美国机械工程师学会会士 (ASME Fellow)

代表文章

• Marzban B, Yi X, Yuan H. A minimal mechanics model for mechanosensing of substrate rigidity gradient in durotaxis. Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology. 2018; 17(3):915-922, DOI: 10.1007/s10237-018-1001-3.
• Yuan H, Marzban B, Parker KK. Myofibrils in Cardiomyocytes Tend to Assemble Along the Maximal Principle Stress Directions. Journal of Biomechanical Engineering. 2017; DOI: 10.1115/1.4037795.
• Lind JU, Yadid M, Perkins I, et al. Cardiac Microphysiological Devices with Flexible Thin Film Sensors for Higher-Throughput Drug Screening. Lab on a Chip, 2017; 17:3692-3703.
• Marzban B, Yuan H. The Effect of Thermal Fluctuation on the Receptor-Mediated Adhesion of a Cell Membrane to an Elastic Substrate. Membranes. 2017; 7(2):24. doi:10.3390/membranes7020024.
• Deravi LF, Sinatra NR, Chantre CO, et al. Design and Fabrication of Fibrous Nanomaterials Using Pull Spinning. Macromolecular Materials and Engineering. 2017; 302(3). doi:10.1002/mame.201600404.
• Lind JU, Busbee TA, Valentine AD, et al. Instrumented cardiac microphysiological devices via multimaterial three-dimensional printing. Nature Materials. 2017; 16(3):303-308.
• Fu S-P, Peng Z, Yuan H, Kfoury R, Young Y-N. Lennard-Jones type pair-potential method for coarse-grained lipid bilayer membrane simulations in LAMMPS. Computer Physics Communications. 2017; 210:193-203.
• Marzban B, Yuan H. The effect of viscous force on the prediction of muscle contractility in biohybrid cantilever-based experiments. Extreme Mechanics Letters. 2016; 9:342-346.
• Park S-J, Gazzola M, Park KS, et al. Phototactic guidance of a tissue-engineered soft-robotic ray. Science. 2016; 353(6295):158-162.
• Aratyn-Schaus Y, Pasqualini FS, Yuan H, et al. Coupling primary and stem cell–derived cardiomyocytes in an in vitro model of cardiac cell therapy. The Journal of Cell Biology. 2016; 212(4):389-397.
• Holly McIlwee Golecki*, Hongyan Yuan*, Benjamin Potter, Calla Glavin, Josue A. Goss, Michael D. Phillips, Kevin Kit Parker, Effect of Solvent Evaporation on Fiber Morphology in Rotary Jet-Spinning.” Langmuir, Oct. 2014 (* Equal contribution)
• Megan L. McCain*, Hongyan Yuan*, Francesco S. Pasqualini, Patrick H. Campbell, and Kevin Kit Parker. Matrix elasticity regulates the optimal cardiac myocyte shape for contractility, American Journal of Physiology – Heart and Circulatory Physiology, 306: H1525–H1539, 2014. (* Equal contribution)
• Gang Wang, Megan L McCain, Luhan Yang, Aibin He, Francesco Silvio Pasqualini, Ashutosh Agarwal, Hongyan Yuan, Dawei Jiang, Donghui Zhang, Lior Zangi, Judith Geva, Amy E Roberts, Qing Ma, Jian Ding, Jinghai Chen, Da-Zhi Wang, Kai Li, Jiwu Wang, Ronald JA Wanders, Wim Kulik, Frédéric M Vaz, Michael A Laflamme, Charles E Murry, Kenneth R Chien, Richard I Kelley, George M Church, Kevin Kit Parker, William T Pu, Modeling the mitochondrial cardiomyopathy of Barth syndrome with induced pluripotent stem cell and heart-on-chip technologies, Nature Medicine, 20, 616–623 (2014)
• Yinfeng Li*, Hongyan Yuan*, Annette Bussche*, Megan Creighton, Robert H. Hurt, Agnes B Kane, Huajian Gao, Graphene penetrates cell membranes spontaneously through edge asperities and corner sites, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 110 (30), 12295-12300, (2013) (* Equal contribution)
• Hongyan Yuan, and Huajian Gao, On the mechanics of integrin clustering during cell-substrate adhesion. Acta Mechanica Solida Sinica 25 (5), 467-472, (2012)
• Hongyan Yuan, Changjin Huang, and Sulin Zhang, Membrane-Mediated Inter-Domain Interactions. BioNanoScience: p. 1-6, (2011)
• Hongyan Yuan, Ju Li, Sulin Zhang and Gang Bao. Variable nanoparticle-cell adhesion strength regulates cellular uptake. Physical Review Letters, 105(13): 138101, (2010)
• Hongyan Yuan, Changjin Huang, Ju Li, George Lykotrafitis and Sulin Zhang. One-particle-thick, solvent-free, coarse-grained model for biological and biomimetic fluid membranes. Physical Review E, 82(1): 011905, (2010)
• Hongyan Yuan and Sulin Zhang. Effects of particle size and ligand density on the kinetics of receptor-mediated endocytosis of nanoparticles. Applied Physics Letters, 96(3): 033704, (2010)
• Hongyan Yuan, Changjin Huang and Sulin Zhang. Dynamic shape transformations of fluid vesicles. Soft Matter, 6: 4571-4579, (2010)
• Hongyan Yuan, Changjin Huang and Sulin Zhang. Virus-Inspired Design Maps of Nanoparticle-Based Bioagents. PLoS ONE, 5: e13495, (2010)
• Hongyan Yuan, Jonah H. Lee and James E. Guilkey. Stochastic reconstruction of the microstructure of equilibrium form snow and computation of effective elastic properties. Journal of Glaciology, 56(197): 12, (2010)
• Xu Huang, Hongyan Yuan, Wentao Liang and Sulin Zhang. Mechanical properties and deformation morphologies of covalently bridged multi-walled carbon nanotubes: Multiscale modeling. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 58, 1847–1862, (2010)
• Sachin S. Terdalkar, Shan Huang, Hongyan Yuan, Joseph J. Rencis, Ting Zhu and Sulin Zhang. Nanoscale fracture in graphene. Chemical Physics Letters, 494(4-6): 218-222, (2010)