Dr. Jiawei Yang

Jiawei Yang

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Email: jwyang@mit.edu         Jiawei.Yang@childrens.harvard.edu

 

EDUCATION:

Ph.D., Engineering Sciences, Harvard University (advisor: Prof. Zhigang Suo, Thesis: Hydrogel Adhesion, and Defense slides), 2019

M.S., Engineering Sciences, Harvard University, 2016

D.Eng, Engineering Mechanics, Tongji University, 2015

B.S., Engineering Mechanics, Tongji University, 2009

 

RESEARCH INTERESTS                                                                

  • Soft materials, soft material interfaces, biointerfaces

  • Solid mechanics: rheology, adhesion, fracture, fatigue, tribology, mechanical instabilities

  • Mechanochemistry and chemomechanics

  • Implantable materials and therapeutic devices

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

Research Fellow (07/2019 – present) 

Koch Institute For Integrative Cancer Research (Daniel Anderson/Robert Langer Lab), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA; 

Dept. Critical Care, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA

Grduate Research Assistant (09/2014 – 05/2019, advisor: Prof. Zhigang Suo)

John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

Research Scholar (09/2009 – 06/2014)

School of Aerospace Engineering and Applied Mechanics, Tongji University, Shanghai, China

Undergraduate Research Assistant (06/2009 – 08/2009)

School of Aerospace Engineering and Applied Mechanics, Tongji University, Shanghai, China

 

AWARDS AND HONORS

2018 Reviewer of Outstanding Contribution, Extreme Mechanics Letters, Elsevier

2015 Robert L. Wallace Prize Fellowship, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

2015 Excellence in Teaching, Derek Bok Center for Teaching & Learning, Harvard University                                                             

2011 China Scholarship Council Fellowship, Beijing, China

2009 Tongji University Fellowship, Tongji University, Shanghai, China

2007 Autodesk Certified AutoCAD Engineer, Shanghai, China