Biography
Xudong Liang received his bachelor's degree in theoretical and applied mechanics from Sun Yat-Sen University in China (2010), a master's degree in engineering mechanics from Tsinghua University in China (2013), and a doctoral degree in mechanical engineering from University of California, San Diego (2018). His thesis was focused on the mechanical instability of soft materials and soft active materials.
Before joining the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Binghamton University, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where he studied the mechanics of soft materials under high strain rate deformation, including programming elastic recoil with metamaterials and high-speed adhesion.
He has published multiple research articles in highly regarded peer-reviewed journals, including Physical Review Letters, Applied Physics Letters, and International Journal of Solids and Structures. His current research interests include mechanics of soft materials, high-speed deformation, and mechanical metamaterials, with applications to energy conversion and absorption, biomechanics and biomaterials, and next-generation advanced materials.
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Education
- BS, Sun Yat-Sen University
- MS, Tsinghua University
- PhD, University of California San Diego
Research Interests
- Mechanics of soft materials
- Metamaterials
- Active materials and structures
- Biomechanics and cell mechanics
- Instability
- Multifield coupling phenomenon