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Materials Division Sia Nemat-Nasser Award Lectures Melville Medal (2017), Journal of Applied Mechanics Award
3:45pm–4:45 pm (TR35 Award) (2016), and Qiu Shi Outstanding Young Scholar
Room 409, David L. Lawrence Convention Center
Tak-Sing Wong, Department of Mechanical and Nuclear
Engineering and Materials Research Institute, The Pennsylvania
State University, University Park, Pennsylvania
Tak-Sing Wong is currently an assistant
professor of mechanical engineering and
biomedical engineering and the inaugural
holder of Wormley Family Early Career
Professorship in Engineering at The
Pennsylvania State University. Dr. Wong was
a Croucher Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at the Wyss
Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard
University. He received his Ph.D. (2009) in the Mechanical
and Aerospace Engineering Department at UCLA and his
B.Eng. (2003) in Automation and Computer-Aided Engineering
from The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Dr. Wong’s
research focuses on surface and interface, micro- and
nanomanufacturing, as well as designing multi-functional
biologically inspired surfaces with applications in water,
energy, and health. His research has been published in
Nature, Nature Materials, Nature Communications, PNAS, and
Science Advances. His work on bio-inspired materials has
been recognized with a R&D 100 Award, a National Science
Foundation CAREER Award, a DARPA Young Faculty Award,
as well as an invitation to the National Academy of
Engineering’s U.S. Frontiers of Engineering symposium.
Dr. Wong has also been named one of the world’s top 35
Innovators Under 35 (formerly TR35) by MIT Technology
Review and was recognized with the IEEE Nanotechnology
Council Early Career Award in Nanotechnology and the ASME
Sia Nemat-Nasser Early Career Award for his contributions in
bioinspired materials engineering.
Title: Interfacial Engineering Inspired by Nature
Yihui Zhang, Department of Engineering Mechanics, Tsinghua
University, Beijing
Yihui Zhang is an Associate Professor of
Engineering Mechanics at Tsinghua University.
He received his Ph.D. in engineering
mechanics from Tsinghua University in 2011.
Then he worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow from
2011 to 2014 and as a Research Assistant
Professor from 2014 to 2015, both at Northwestern University.
He joined the Department of Engineering Mechanics at
Tsinghua University in 2015 and was tenured in 2018. His
research interests include mechanically guided 3D assembly,
soft composite materials, and stretchable electronics. He has
published more than 90 peer-reviewed journal papers,
including two in Science, eleven in Nature sister journals, three
in Science Advances, four in PNAS, eight in the Journal of the
Mechanics and Physics of Solids, three in ACS Nano, and eight
in Advanced Functional Materials. His recent awards include
ASME Sia Nemat-Nasser Early Career Award (2018), Society of
xxvi Engineering Science’s Young Investigator Medal (2018),
Eshelby Mechanics Award for Young Faculty (2017), ASME
(2017), MIT Technology Review's 35 Innovators Under 35
Award (2016). He is an associate editor of the Journal of
Applied Mechanics (ASME Transactions), and serves on the
editorial board of several academic journals, including
Proceedings of the Royal Society A and npj Flexible
Electronics.
Title: Bio-inspired Soft Network Materials With Unusual
Mechanical Properties
Materials Division Nadai Medal Award Lecture
4:45pm–5:45pm
Room 410, David L. Lawrence Convention Center
The Nadai Medal goes to George M. Pharr for “Measurement
of Power Law Creep Parameters by Nanoindentation”
George M. Pharr is TEES Eminent Research
Professor in the Department of Materials
Science and at Texas A&M University,
College Station, TX. He received his B.S. in
Mechanical Engineering at Rice University in
1975 and Ph.D. in Materials Science and
Engineering from Stanford in 1979. After one year of
postdoctoral study at the University of Cambridge, England,
he returned to Rice in 1980 as a faculty member in the
Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science.
He moved to the Department of Materials Science and
Engineering at the University of Tennessee (UT) in 1998,
where he served he as Chancellor's Professor and McKamey
Professor of Engineering. While at UT, he also held a Joint
Faculty Appointment at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory
(ORNL), was Head of the UT Materials Science and
Engineering Department, and served as the Director of the
UT/ORNL Joint Institute for Advanced Materials. He joined
the faculty of Texas A&M in January 2017.
Dr. Pharr received ASM International’s Bradley Stoughton
Award for Young Teachers of Metallurgy in 1985. His honors
also include the Amoco Award for Superior Teaching at Rice
University (1994), a Humboldt Senior Scientist Award (2007),
the Materials Research Society's inaugural Innovation in
Materials Characterization Award (2010), and the University of
Tennessee Macebearer Award (2015). He is a member of the
National Academy of Engineering (2014) and a Fellow of ASM
International (1995), the Materials Research Society (2012), and
TMS (2016). Dr. Pharr has been an Associate Editor of the
Journal of the American Ceramic Society since 1990 and
Principal Editor of the Journal of Materials Research since
2012. He is an author or co-author of more than 200 scientific
publications, including four book chapters. His research
focuses on mechanisms of plasticity and fracture in solids,
especially at small scales.
Measurement of Power Law Creep Parameters by
Nanoindentation
Great progress has been made over the past decade in making
mechanical property measurements at small scales by load-