Yaoyao Fiona Zhao

Yaoyao Fiona Zhao is a Chinese and Canadian mechanical engineer who works at McGill University as a professor of mechanical engineering and William Dawson Scholar. Topics in her research include engineering design, additive manufacturing, and design for additive manufacturing.[1]

Education and career

Zhao received a bachelor's degree in engineering in 2003 from the Beijing Institute of Technology. She went to New Zealand for graduate study at the University of Auckland, where she received a master's degree in 2006 and completed her Ph.D. in 2010.[2] Her doctoral dissertation was An Integrated Process Planning System for Machining and Inspection, supervised by Xun Xu.[3]

Before taking a faculty position at McGill, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in the US and the École centrale de Nantes in France.[2]

Recognition

Zhao was named as an ASME Fellow by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 2025.[4]

References

  1. ^ "Yaoyao Zhao", Mechanical Engineering, McGill University, retrieved 2025-09-28
  2. ^ a b "Yaoyao Fiona Zhao", IEEE Xplore, IEEE, 27 April 2017, retrieved 2025-09-28
  3. ^ Zhao, Yaoyao (Fiona) (2009), An Integrated Process Planning System for Machining and Inspection (Ph.D. thesis), University of Auckland, retrieved 2025-09-28
  4. ^ "ASME Newly Elected Fellows", ASME News, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 8 August 2025, retrieved 2025-09-28
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