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Biographical Sketch
Dr. Yao is Professor
and Chair of the
Department of
Mechanical Engineering at
Columbia University, where he also serves as Director of
Manufacturing Research
Laboratory (MRL). Before joining
Columbia in 1994, he served as a Senior Lecturer in the
School of Mechanical and
Manufacturing Engineering at the
University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
He received his Ph.D.
from the University of Wisconsin-Madison
in 1988, following his M.S. from the same institute, and B.E. from the
Shanghai Jiao Tong
University, China, all in Mechanical Engineering.
He currently
serves on the Board of Directors,
Laser Institute of America,
and on the
Board of Directors, North
American Manufacturing Research Institute of
SME.
He also
serves as Associate Editor of ASME
Transactions
Journal
of Manufacturing Science and Engineering,
SME
Journal of Manufacturing Processes,
SME
Journal of Manufacturing Systems, and
High Temperature
Material Processes: An International Journal, France.
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