Professor YuanTong Gu
Tel.: +61-7-31381009
E-mail: yuantong.gu@qut.edu.au
QUT Website: http://staff.qut.edu.au/staff/gu9
Biography
Prof Yuantong Gu is now a full Professor, a prestigious ARC Future Fellow and a Discipline Leader of Mechanical Engineering at School of Chemistry, Physics and Mechanical Engineering of Queensland University of Technology (QUT). His research interests include: Biomechanics; Nanomaterials; Computational mechanics; and Mechanical Engineering. He has secured more than $5million in research funding. He authored more than 150 refereed journal publications and one popular book. Most of his publications are in highly ranked journals and have been well cited. His expertise has been acknowledged through appointments as Editor-in-Chief for 2 international journals including Australian Journal of Mechanical Engineering, Associate Editor for 2 prestigious international journals including Engineering Analysis with Boundary Elements, and an Editorial Board Member for another 2 international journals. He served as the conference general chair for the 4th International Conference on Computational Methods held at the Gold Coast in 2012.
Qualifications |
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| 2003: | Ph.D., National University of Singapore (Singapore) |
| 1994: | M. Eng., Dalian University of Technology, China |
| 2010: | Graduate Certificate in Higher Education, Queensland University of Technology, Australia |
Employment History |
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| 2014-present: | Professor and ARC Future Fellow Director: Laboratory for Advanced Modelling and Simulation in Engineering and Science Discipline Leader: Mechanical Systems and Asset Management |
| 2013-2014: | Professor and ARC Future Fellow Group leader: Advanced Modelling and Simulations for Engineering and Science Co-Discipline Leader: Mechanical Systems and Asset Management |
| 2011-2013: | Associate Professor and ARC Future Fellow Group leader: Advanced Modelling and Simulations for Engineering and Science |
| 2009-2011: | Senior Lecturer, School of Engineering Systems, QUT |
| 2007-2009: | Lecturer, School of Engineering Systems, QUT |
| 2005-2008: | ARC APD (Australian Postdoctoral Fellowship), University of Sydney and QUT |
| 2004-2005: | Postdoctoral fellow, University of California (USA) |
| 2002-2004: | Research Fellow, National University of Singapore (Singapore) |
Selected Research GrantsTotal funding around $5million since 2005 |
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| 11/2013-11/2014: | ARC LIFE grant ($2M; CI) |
| 11/2010–11/2014: | ARC, Future Fellowship (Funding: $692,000; sole CI) |
| 01/2013–12/2015: | ARC, Discovery grant ($360,000; the 1st and leader CI) |
| 05/2013–12/2013: | Australia-Group Mission fund (the 1st and leader CI) |
| 05/2011–05/2015: | ARC, Linkage grant (Funding: $400,000; CI) |
| 09/2010–08/2013: | ARC, Linkage grant (Funding: $325,000; CI) |
| 09/2009–08/2012: | ARC, Linkage grant (Funding: $225,000; CI) |
| 01/2007–12/2011: | ARC, Discovery grant (Funding: $1.2 million; CI) |
| 07/2005–07/2008: | ARC, Discovery grant (Funding: $250,000; sole CI) |
| 09/2009–08/2010: | Queensland International Fellowship (Funding: $25,000; sole CI) |
| 01/2010–12/2010: | Australian Academy of Science: Scientific Visits grant (Funding: $6,500; sole CI) |
| 05/2012-08/2014: | 6 Industry projects (Funding: $138,000; the 1st and leader CI) |
Publications
Scopus Authors ID: Author ID: 7403046386 Detailed publications: http://eprints.qut.edu.au/view/person/Gu,_YuanTong.html Prizes, awards and fellowship |
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| 2013, | Recipient of the Vice-Chancellor’s Awards for Excellence, QUT |
| 2012, | Recipient of the Vice-Chancellor’s Performance Fund Award, QUT |
| 2010, | Recipient of ARC Future Fellowship, ARC |
| 2011, | Recipient of BEE Top Supervisor, QUT |
| 2010, | Recipient of the Vice-Chancellor’s Performance Fund Award, QUT |
| 2009, | Recipient of the Inaugural Queensland International Fellowship, Qld Government |
| 2008, | Recipient of the Dean’s Excellence Award for Research Publication, QUT |
| 2005 – 07/2008, | Recipient of ARC Australian Postdoctoral (APD) Fellowship, ARC |
| 2004, | The Award of Outstanding Contribution in National Day Activity, The Consulate General of China in Los Angeles, USA |
| 2001, | Outstanding Young Researcher Fellowship in the First MIT Conference on Computational Fluid and Solid Mechanics. MIT, USA |
| 1999-2002, | Research Scholarship, the National University of Singapore |
| 1993, | The Award of Outstanding Postgraduate Student, China |
| 1991, | The Award of Province Outstanding Graduate Student, China |
| 1987-1991, | The first Class of Scholarship, Dalian University of Technology, China. |
Memberships for Editorial board and professional societies
- Chief Editor: Australian Journal of Mechanical Engineering
- Chief Editor: International Journal of Novel Ideas: Computational Methodology
- International subject Editor: Applied Mathematical Modelling
- Associate Editor: Engineering Analysis with Boundary Elements
- Associate Editor: American Journal of Materials Science and Technology
- Guest Editor-in-Chief: International Journal of Computational Methods
- Guest Editor-in-Chief: Applied Mathematical Modelling
- Guest Editor-in-Chief: Engineering Analysis with Boundary Elements
- Editorial Board Member: International Journal of Computational Methods
Reviewer for more than 20 international journals
Executive / Elected memberships in professional societies
- Elected General Council member: Asian-Pacific Association for Computational Mechanics
- Executive Committee Member: Australian Association on Computational Mechanics
Invited talks and Conference/Symposium Organization
- Thematic Plenary Lecture, The 5th International Conference on Computational Methods, 7/2014, UK
- Thematic Plenary Lecture, The 5th Asia Pacific Congress on Computational Mechanics, 12/2013, Singapore
- Six Keynote talks in 6 international conferences
- Eight Invited Seminars in national and international universities and institutes
- Conference General Chair (2012): The 4th International Conference on Computational Methods (ICCM2012), Gold Coast(more than 290 attendees)
- Conference Co-Chairman (2014): The 5th International Conference on Computational Methods, UK
- Organizing Committee member for 8 international conferences
- Mini-symposium organizer for 5 international conferences
- Session chairman for more than 15 international conferences
Main research areas
Prof. Gu and his group define the below 3 main research areas:
1) Advanced modelling and simulation for engineering and science
- Advanced/Modified Finite Element Method for engineering applications
- Novel Meshless (Meshfree) techniques and its applications
- CFD and its applications
- Multiscale modelling and simulation for material and mechanical engineering
- Advanced numerical modelling and simulation for mechanical engineering applications
2) Experiment and Numerical modelling for Biomechanics and biomedical systems
- Experimental and numerical modelling study for living cells and tissues
- Multiscale modelling and simulation for biomedical systems
- Novel Meshless techniques, modified FEM and their combination for biomedical modelling
- Numerical modelling and simulation for biofluid mechanics
3) Nanotechnology and nanodevice
- Experimental study for nanowire based nano-devices
- Advanced numerical modelling and simulation for nanotechnology
- Advanced multiscale modelling techniques for nano-manufacturing and nano-materials
- Coupled Molecular Dynamics/ Monte Carlo/Meshless modelling technique
- Numerical investigation for the crossing-scale deformation mechanism in material
- Multiscale characterisation techniques for material and manufacturing