LianXiang Yang, Ph.D. Professor Mechanical Engineering Department 163 DHE; (248) 370-2283; Fax: (248) 370-4416 E-mail: yang2@oakland.edu secs.oakland.edu/~yang2/ Ph.D., University of Kassel (Germany), 1997

• Joined Oakland University in October 2001
• 08, 2008 - Present: Professor, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Oakland University
• 01, 2008 - 06, 2008: Visiting Professor at Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
• 10, 2001 - 07, 2008: Associate Professor, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Oakland University
• 04, 2000 - 10, 2001: R&D Scientist, JDS-Uniphase, Ottawa, Canada
• 11, 1998 - 04, 2000: Senior Engineer, Dr. Ettemeyer GmbH & Co., Neu Ulm, Germany
• 11, 1991 - 10, 1998: Research Fellow and Senior Research Fellow in Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, University of Kassel, Germany
• 01, 1986 - 11, 1991: Lecturer and Associate Professor, Dept. of Precision Mechanical Instruments, Hefei University of Technology, PR China
• Vice Chair of the Material Modeling & Testing (MM&T) Committee of The International Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE-International)
• Associate Technical Editor of Journal "Materials Evaluation"
• Editorial Board of the International Journal "Journal of Holography and Speckle."
• Editorial Board of the Chinese Journal of Mechanical Engineering
• Fellow of SPIE - The international Society of Optics and Photonics
• Member of SAE, SEM, and ASNT
• Advising a number of Ph.D. and Master students

RESEARCH

• Digital optical measuring techniques for full-field, non-contacting, three dimension measurement of contour, deformations and strains/stresses etc.
• Digital image processing and new software development
• Experimental strain/stress analysis
• Vibration and noise analysis
• Nondestructive testing and material evaluation
• Microstructure and MEMS (MicroElectroMechanicalSystems) measurement
• Design validation and optimization
• Design of Instrumentation
• Authored and coauthored over 100 journal and conference papers and three books and applied 8 patents worldwid