1985.9-1989.7 Kunming University of Science and Technology, Department of Materials Pressure Processing, Bachelor of Engineering

1989.9-1992.4 Mine Engineering Mechanics, Department of Architectural Engineering and Mechanics, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Master of Engineering

1993.9-1996.7 Solid Mechanics, Department of Mechanics and Engineering Science, Peking University, Ph.D

Domestic work experience

1992.4-1993.8 Teacher, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Zhengzhou University

1996.7-1998.6 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Engineering Mechanics, Tsinghua University

1998.7-2008.12 Associate Professor, Department of Engineering Mechanics, Tsinghua University

2008.12-present Professor, Department of Engineering Mechanics, Tsinghua University

2009.7 - present Doctoral Supervisor of Solid Mechanics, Department of Engineering Mechanics, Tsinghua University

2017.8- present, Tenured professor, School of Aerospace and Engineering, Tsinghua University

Overseas visit experience

2000.7-2001.3 Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Applied Mechanics, Kyushu University, Japan

2001.7-2002.7 Researcher, Department of Civil Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands

2009.6-2009.7 Visiting Professor, Institute of Applied Mechanics, University of Rennes, France

2010.2-2010.03 Visiting Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of South Carolina, USA

Standing director of China Composite Materials Society;

Member of Experimental Mechanics Committee, Chinese Society of Mechanics.

Editorial board member of Composite Structures and Composites Part C.

At present, mainly engaging in composite structure design, intelligent repair technology of aviation composite, aircraft structure design, rubber seals, experimental mechanics and non-destructive testing.

In 2022, co-founded the Joint Research Center for Intelligent Repair Technology of Aeronautical Composites of Tsinghua University-5720 with 5720 factory and served as the director of the center. It has completed a number of state-level scientific research projects, involving major research projects of large aircraft C919, C929, regional airliner ARJ21 and type equipment. The research work includes: design methods and verification of composite materials, intelligent repair technology and system construction of aviation composite materials, development of aviation rubber seals, design and verification of typical aircraft structural components, advanced nondestructive testing methods and experimental mechanics technology, etc.

(1) Second prize of Beijing Science and Technology Progress Award in 2000 (ranked the second); Digital speckle correlation test technology and application

(2) First prize of Natural Science of Ministry of Education in 2011 (ranked the second); Mechanical theory and experimental characterization of advanced composite and preparation methods

(3) Second prize of Natural Science of Yunnan Province in 2020 (ranked fourth); Research on optical nondestructive testing method and application in damage mechanism analysis of civil engineering materials

Presided over and participated in a number of national scientific research projects as a backbone. Relevant research results have been published in important academic journals at home and abroad, including more than 140 SCI indexed journal papers. More than 20 national invention patents were authorized. Representative papers are as follows:

1) Yao XF,Chen JD,Jin GC, Arakawa K;Takahashi K. Caustic analysis of stress singularities in orthotropic composite materials with mode-I crack, Composites Science and Technology, 2004, 64(7-8): 917-924

2) Yao XF, Yeh HY, Xu W, Fracture investigation at V-notch tip using coherent gradient sensing (CGS), International Journal of Solids and Structures, 2006, 43(5): 1189-1200

3）Ma YJ, Yao XF, Liu XY, et al. Inversion and decoupling of thermo-mechanical deformation in anisotropic materials using the virtual fields method. Proceedings of the Royal Society A-Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences, 2013, 469(2154): 20130124

4）Ma YJ, Yao XF, Hao WF, et al. Oxidation mechanism of ZrB2/SiC ceramics based on phase-field model. Composites Science and Technology, 2012, 72(10): 1196-1202

5）Ma YJ, Yao XF, Zheng QS, et al. Carbon nanotube films change Poisson‘s ratios from negative to positive. Applied Physics Letters, 2010: 97(6): 061909

6）Liu, Wei&; Yao, Xuefeng; Wang Shen; Ma, Yinji.Parallax Correction for a Digital Array High-Speed Imaging System for Dynamic Deformation Measurements, Experimental Mechanics, 2017,57(3):457-473.

7）Yang H, Yuan L, Yao XF, DN Fang. Piezoresistive response of graphene rubber composites considering the tunneling effect. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 2020, 139(6): 103943

8）Yuan L, Yao XF, Yang H. Multiscale modelling of strain-resistance behavior for graphene rubber composites under large deformation. Nanoscale, 2019, 11(44):21554-21568

9）Fu YT, Yao XF. Multi-scale analysis for 3D printed continuous fiber reinforced thermoplastic composites. Composites Science and Technology, 2021, 216(11):109065

10）Xu X, Yan H, Xiao C, Yao XF. An anisotropic hyper-visco-pseudo-elastic model and explicit stress solutions for fabric reinforced rubber composites. International Journal of Solids and Structures, 2022, 242:111519

11）Yang H, Gong L, Zheng Z, Yao XF*. Highly stretchable and sensitive conductive rubber composites with tunable piezoresistivity for motion detection and flexible electrodes. Carbon, 2020,158: 893-903