Personal
Name:Yuye Tang
Gender:Female
Birthplace:Beijing,P.R. China

Education
Columbia University, New York, NY
PhD in Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics,05/2008(expected)
MPhil in Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics,10/2007
Tsinghua University,Beijing, China
MS in Engineering Mechanics,07/2004
BS in Engineering Mechanics,07/2002

Researches
Columbia University, Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, New York, NY,08/2005-present
Research Assistant
1.Constructed a molecular dynamics decorated finite element method (MDeFEM) to investigate the mechanical response of large macromolecules
2.Applied the MDeFEM to analyze the functional motions of mechanosensitive channels of large conductance (MscL) and buckling transitions of satellite tobacco mosaic virus (STMV)
3.Analyzed the radial elastic properties of carbon nanotubes based on Molecular Dynamics (MD) and finite element method (FEM).
4.Analyzed the high-frequency vibration of integrated antenna-airframe structure in unmanned aerial vehicles.
Teaching Assistant 
1.Assisted in multiple courses including Mechanics of Solids/Experimental Mechanics of Material (undergraduates) and Advanced Mechanics of Solids (graduates)
2.Performed multiple duties including instructing labs, leading discussion sections and resolving problems
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,Dept. of Mechanical Engineering,Troy, NY, 08/2004-07/2005
Research Assistant 
1.Developed a generalized mathematical homogenization method of atomistic media at finite temperature.
Tsinghua University, Dept. of Engineering Mechanics Beijing, China, 01/2002-07/2004
Research Assistant 
1.Explored the conductivities/expansion/elastic properties of the honeycomb sandwich panels.
2.Studied the thermal and mechanical responses of the thermally induced vibrations of solar arrays.
3.Designed an experimental method to test the mechanical performance of propellant bottle.
4.Participated in developing the numerical measurement method of dam's normal mode parameters.

Publications
[1] X. Chen, Q. Cui, Y. Tang, etc. Gating Mechanisms of Mechanosensitive Channels of Large Conductance (Part I) (processing paper)
[2] Y. Tang, J. Yoo, A. Yethiraj, etc. Gating Mechanisms of Mechanosensitive Channels of Large Conductance (Part II) (processing paper)
[3] Y. Tang, X. Chen, etc., Numerical simulation of nanoindentation and patch clamp experiments on mechanosensitive channels of large conductance in Escherichia coli, Experimental Mechanics (accepted) (2007)
[4] Y. Tang, G. Cao, X. Chen, etc., A finite element framework for studying the mechanical response of macromolecules: Application to the gating of the mechanosensitive channel MscL, Biophys. J., 91:1248-1263 (2006)
[5] G. Cao, Y. Tang, X. Chen, etc., Elastic properties of Carbon nanotubes in radial direction, Journal of Nanoengineering and Nanosystems, 219: 73-88 (2005)
[6] J. Fish , W. Chen, and Y. Tang, “Generalized Mathematical Homogenization of Atomistic Media at Finite Temperatures,” International Journal for Multiscale Computational Engineering, Vol. 3, Issue 4, 2005.
[7] Tang Yuye, Xue Mingde ,Thermo-Mechanical Characteristics Analysis of Sandwich Panel with Honeycomb Core, Chinese J Acta Materiae Compositae Sinica, Vol.22, No.2,2005
[8] Cheng Lejin, Xue Mingde, Tang Yuye, Yao Haimin, Thermal-Dynamic Analysis of Large Scale Space Structures by FEM, Chinese J Applied Mechanics, 2004 

TECHNICAL SKILLS
Applications: ABAQUS, ANSYS, PATRAN, Materials Studio, OriginPro, AutoCAD, Microsoft Office
Programming skills: C/C++, FORTRAN, Visual Basic, Maple, Matlab, Mathematica