YANG Wei is a Professor of Solid Mechanics in the Department of Engineering Mechanics, he is specialized in the field of Failure Mechanics.

His current research topics include: combined microscopic and macroscopic fracture mechanics, failure mechanics for micro-electronic devices, toughening of structural materials, and design of microsatellites and composite lattice materials. He has been very active in the international research collaborations.
His distinguished education career earned him the National Excellent Teacher Award in 1993. He received the Award of Ten Best Teachers from the city of Beijing in the same year.

He has written 3 monographs and edited 7 books, and published over 240 technical papers.

The detailed data for his resume are given below.

Date and Place of Birth
February 16, 1954, Beijing, P.R.CHINA
Education
Ph.D. Brown University, June 1985
M.S. Tsinghua University, April 1981
B.S. North-Western Technical University, December 1976
Current Employment
Professor and Chairman, Department of Engineering Mechanics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, P.R. China 100084
Yantz Professor of the Ministry of Education, since 1999.
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E-mail: yw-dem@tsinghua.edu.cn
Visiting Positions
Visiting Professor (2002) University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA
Visiting Professor (2000-01) Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Visiting Scientist (1998) Princeton University, USA
Visiting Scientist (1996-97) Taiwan University, Taipei, China
Visiting Scientist (1995) University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Visiting Scientist (1993) University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Visiting Professor (1990) Brown University, USA
Visiting Professor (1988) Institute of Mechanics of Grenoble, France
Visiting Scientist (1987-88) University of Sheffield, UK
Academic Activities
¡ñ Council Member of the China Association of Science and Technology
¡ñ Member of the Scientific Committee of the Ministry of Education
¡ñ Editor-in-Chief of Acta Mechanica Sinica
¡ñ Vice President of The Chinese Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics
¡ñ President-elect of The Far East and Oceanic Fracture Society
¡ñ General Assembly Member of International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Chairman of Working Party 7 (Micro- and Nano-scale Phenomena in Mechanics)
¡ñ Regional Editor of International Journal of Fractrure
¡ñ Member of the International Advisory Committee of Material Research International (The official English journal for The Japanese Society of Materials)
¡ñ Editorial Board of International Journal of Damage Mechanics
¡ñ Editorial Board of Fatigue and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures
¡ñ Editorial Board of International Journal of Solid and Structures
¡ñ Editorial Board of Archive in Applied Mechanics
¡ñ Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
Research Fields
¡ñ Fracture Mechanics, Micromechanics, Nanomechanics, Mechanics of Materials
¡ñ Mechatronic Reliability
¡ñ Structural Integrity of Reactor Pressure Vessels and Pipes
¡ñ Aerospace Technology
Awards
¡ñ The Scientific Achievement Award by the Ministry of Education of China, 2002, First class, as the first recipient.
¡ñ The National Natural Science Award, 1995, Third class, as the first recipient
¡ñ The Young Scientists Award of China, 1994 (Only 10 recipients in all fields)
¡ñ The Scientific Achievement Award by the State Education Commission of China, First class, as the first recipient.
¡ñ The Scientific Achievement Award by the State Education Commission of China, Second class, as the first recipient.
¡ñ The Scientific Achievement Award by the State Education Commission of China, First class, as the fourth recipient.

II. List of Publications
Books
1. Yang W. and Lee W.B., Mesoplasticity and Its Applications, Springer-Verlag, 1993.
2. Yang W., Macroscopic and Microscopic Fracture Mechanics, National Defence Press, 1995. (in Chinese).
3. Yang W., Mechatronic Reliability, Tsinghua University Press and Springer-Verlag, in Chinese (2001) and English (2002).
4. W. Gerberich and W. Yang eds., Interfacial and Nanoscale Failure, Vol. 8 of Comprehensive Structural Integrity, Elsevier Science, (2003)