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2024 Stanford University Annual Assessment of Author Citations

The following COE professors are among the top scientists worldwide selected by Stanford University representing the top 2% of the most-cited scientists with single-year impact in various disciplines. The selection is based on the top 100,000 by c-score (with and without self-citations) or a percentile rank of 2% or above. The list below includes those who published a paper in 2024 or later.

Patent for 3D Auxetic Composite Structures

MIE Associate Professor Yaning Li was awarded a patent for “Three-dimensional auxetic composite structures.”

A Bio-Inspired Approach to Material Design

MIE Postdoctoral Research Associate Richard Nash, PhD’23, and Associate Professor Yaning Li published their research, “On-demand Auxeticity and Co-existing Pre-tension Induced Compression Stage in a Sandwich Design With Kinematically Constrained 3D Suture Tiles,” in Nature Communications.

Exploring the Potential of Frictional Mechanical Metamaterials

MIE Associate Professor Yaning Li was awarded a $531,056 NSF grant to explore a new category of mechanical metamaterials:  “Frictional Mechanical Metamaterial.”

2023 Stanford University Annual Assessment of Author Citations

The following COE professors are among the top scientists worldwide selected by Stanford University representing the top 2% of the most-cited scientists with single-year impact in various disciplines. The selection is based on the top 100,000 by c-score (with and without self-citations) or a percentile rank of 2% or above.

Creating 3D-Printed Materials Inspired by Nature To Protect EV Vehicle Batteries

MIE Associate Professor Yaning Li is designing new materials and fabricating them using 3D printing to protect EV batteries by creating a tiled auxetic metamaterial inspired by nature. She received a Spark Fund award from the Center for Research Innovation at Northeastern for this work.

Fall 2022 Spark Fund Awardees

ChE/COS Associate Professor Carolyn Lee-Parsons, ECE Professor Edmund Yeh, ChE Assistant Professor Ryan Koppes, and MIE Associate Professor Yaning Li are recipients of the Fall 2022 Spark Fund Awards from Northeastern’s Center for Research Innovation.

New Sutural Gabions will Resist Impact and Vibrations

MIE Associate Professor Yaning Li, in collaboration with Jongmin Shim from the University at Buffalo, is leading a $667K NSF grant for “Bio-Inspired Impact-Resistant Phononic Sutural Gabions.”

New Faculty Spotlight: Yaning Li

Yaning Li joins the Mechanical & Industrial Engineering department in August 2019 as an Associate Professor.