Yaling Liu
Email: yal310@lehigh.edu
Phone: (610) 758-5839
Fax: (610) 758-6224
Assistant Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics
Appointed to Lehigh Faculty: 2010
Personal Laboratory Webpage: http://www.lehigh.edu/~yal310
Education:
Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, Northwestrn University, 2006
M.S. Mechanical Engineering, Northwestrn University, 2004
B.S. Engineering Mechanics, Tsinghua University, 2001
Related experience - teaching, industrial, etc.:
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Aerospace Engineering, University of Texas at Arllington, 2007 - 2010
Senior Engineer, Mechanical Research Center, Seagate Technology, 2006-2007
Research activities, consulting, patents, etc.:
Interdisciplinary research on Micro/NanoEngineering for Biology and Medicine, in particular, using combined computational and experimental fluid/solid mechanics approaches to characterize the interfacial phenomena at the micro/nano scale and in biological systems. Examples include fluid-structure interaction, particulate and multiphase flow, blood rheology, biomedical device (artificial heart, valves, stents, etc) design, electromagnetic manipulation of bio-nanoparticles, DNA sequencing in functionalized nanopores, etc. Current efforts focus on two emerging applications of bio-nanotechnology: Nanomedicine and Biosensing, which involves and multiscale modeling, biofluid mechanics, image-based simulation, MEMS fabrication, microfluidic chip testing, nanoparticle adhesion dynamics, and cell manipulation.
Honors and awards:
• NSF Early CAREER Development Award, National Science Foundation, 2009
• Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award, Oak Ridge Associated Universities, 2009
• Royal E. Cabell Fellowship, Northwestern University, 2006
• NSF Summer Institute on Nanoscale Mechanics, Bio-inspired Hierarchical Structures
Fellowship Recipient, 2005
• Walter P. Murphy Fellowship, Northwestern University, 2001