Yonggang Huang

Yonggang Huang

Born	2 November 1962 Beijing, China
Residence	China, U.S.
Fields	Mechanics of materials and structures
Institutions	University of Arizona Michigan Technological University University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) Northwestern University
Alma mater	Peking University, Harvard University
Known for	Mechanics of materials and structures across multiple scales Mechanics of stretchable and dissolvable electronics
Notable awards	Drucker Medal (2013)

Yonggang Huang is the Walter P. Murphy Professor of Engineering at Northwestern University.

Education and career

Yonggang Huang received his BS degree in mechanics from Peking University in 1984. He moved to the United States to study engineering science in 1986, and earned his ScM and PhD degrees in engineering science from Harvard University in 1987 and 1990, respectively. He stayed at Harvard as a post-doctoral fellow for one year, and joined the University of Arizona as an assistant professor in 1991. He moved to Michigan Technological University as an associate professor in 1995, and to University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in 1998. He was promoted to full professor in 2001, Grayce Wicall Gauthier Professor in 2003, and Shao Lee Soo Professor in 2004, at UIUC. He joined Northwestern University as the Joseph Cummings Professor in 2007, and is now the Walter P. Murphy Professor.

Research interests

Huang has been working on mechanics of materials and structures across multiple scales, such as the mechanism-based strain gradient plasticity theory, and atomistic-based continuum theory for carbon nanotubes. In recent years he has focused on mechanics and thermal analysis of stretchable and dissolvable electronics with applications to energy harvesting and medicine, and mechanically guided, deterministic 3D assembly. His work on the electronic tattoos(http://www.nbclearn.com/portal/site/learn/cuecard/62961) has been reported by NBC Learn (the education arm of NBC).

Service to the academic societies

Since 2011, he has been the editor-in-chief of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Letters.^[1]

Huang is the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Applied Mechanics (Transactions of ASME).^[2]

He was the president of the Society of Engineering Sciences (2014),^[3] and is a member of the Executive Committee of the Applied Mechanics Division, ASME (2015-2020).

Honors and awards

Yonggang Huang has been honored with many recognitions in mechanics and mechanical engineering including the Gustus L. Larson Award^[4] from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) in 2003, George W. Melvile Medal^[5] from ASME in 2004, Young Investigator Medal^[6] from the Society of Engineering Sciences in 2006, International Journal of Plasticity Medal in 2007, the Guggenheim Fellowship^[7] from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 2008, Highly Cited Researcher in Engineering^[8] from Thomson Reuters and Honorary Professor from Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications in 2009, Charles Russ Richards Award^[9] from ASME in 2010, Daniel C. Drucker Medal^[10] from ASME in 2013, Highly Cited Researcher in Materials Science from Thomson Reuters and Honorary Professor from Xi’an Jiaotong University in 2014, and Highly Cited Researcher in Materials Science from Thomson Reuters and Honorary Professor from Southwest Jiaotong University in 2015. He was elected a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts^[11] in 2011.

Publications

Professor Huang is the author of over 400 publications in international journals, including journals in multiple fields such as mechanics (43 papers in the Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids), materials (12 in Advanced Materials and 8 in Nature Materials), medicine (1 each in CELL, Nature Biotechnology, Nature Neuroscience and Science Translational Medicine), nanotechnology (8 in Nano Letters and 2 in Nature Nanotechnology), physics (2 in Physical Review Letters), and multidisplinary journals (9 in Science, 1 in Science Advances, 3 in Nature, 10 in Nature Communications, and 12 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America).

References

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