• Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering
  • Affiliated Faculty, School of Engineering Medicine
Dr. Yuxiao Zhou

Educational Background

  • Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, 2015 – 2020
  • M.S., Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Rutgers University-New Brunswick, 2012 – 2015
  • B.S., Energy Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, 2008 – 2012

Research Interests

    • Implantable device design
    • Surgery planning
    • Diagnosis of bone disease
    • Computational and experimental biomechanics
    • Medical imaging (CT/MRI)
    • Mechanobiology
    • Bone regeneration

Awards & Honors

  • Maryland Stem Cell Research Fund Postdoctoral Fellowship - 2021
  • C. Norwood Wherry Memorial Graduate Fellowship, Pennsylvania State University - 2020
  • Energy and Environmental Sustainability Laboratories Green Seed Grant, Pennsylvania State University - 2019 and 2020
  • Diversity Travel Grant, Summer Biomechanics, Bioengineering and Biotransport Conference - 2019
  • Kulakowski Travel Award, Pennsylvania State University - 2019
  • DuBois Fellowship, Rutgers University-New Brunswick - 2012

Selected Publications

  • Y. Zhou, J. Dang, Y. Chen, et. al., Microstructure and Mechanical Behaviors of Tibia for Collagen Induced Arthritic Mice Treated with Gingiva-Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells, Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials, 124:104719, 2021.
  • K. Su, Y. Zhou, M. Hossaini-Zadeh, et. al., Effects of implant buccal distance on peri-implant strain: A micro-CT based finite element analysis, Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials, 116:104325, 2021.
  • Y. Zhou, M. Kastner, T. Tighe, J. Du, Elastic Properties of Bovine Cortical Bone from Micro- to Nano- Scales as Measured by PeakForce Tapping Atomic Force Microscopy, Extreme Mechanics Letters, 41, 101031, 2020.
  • Y. Zhou, C. Gong, M. Hossaini-Zadeh, et. al., 3D Full-field Strain in Bone-implant and Bone-tooth Constructs and Their Morphological Influential Factors, Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials, 110:103858, 2020.
  • J. Hu, Y. Zhou, J. D. Obayemi, et. al., An investigation of the viscoelastic properties and the actin cytoskeletal structure of triple negative breast cancer cells, Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials, 86:1-13, 2018.