Dixiong YANG

Dixiong YANG is a Professor of Engineering Mechanics at Dalian University of Technology, China. In 2004, he received a Ph.D. degree in mechanics from the Dalian University of Technology. His research interests involve the seismic design and vibration-reduction of engineering structures, structural optimization, random vibration and reliability analysis, and computational mechanics. He achieved the second-class award of the National Science and Technology Progress Prize in 2017, and the first-class award of the Natural Science Prize for the Ministry of Education in 2013. He taught the structural analysis course for 18 years and achieved several awards for outstanding teaching at the Dalian University of Technology. He has published over 130 peer-reviewed journal papers and 3 books. He is also the deputy editor of the third edition of the engineering mechanics branch for the civil engineering discipline of Encyclopedia of China and a member of the random vibration committee of the China Society of Vibration Engineering, the International Society of Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization, and the International Association of Computational Mechanics