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Yang Ding

Assistant Professor

Mechanics Division

Beijing Computational Science Research Center

dingyang@csrc.ac.cn

CV , CV in Chinese

 

 

News:

2016.9 PhD student Ji Zhang joined the lab.

Research:

The research of our group focuses on the mechanics and control of locomotion. Over the course of millions of years of evolution, micro-organisms and animals have developed various strategies to move effectively in drastically different environments. As locomotion often plays crucial roles in organism’s life during foraging, mating, escaping, etc., better understanding of the locomotion can deepen our understanding of organisms. Due to the rapid advancement in robotics and the broad areas of application of bio-inspired robots, mechanisms revealed in the locomotion of organisms can also lead to novel and better designs of robots. In our group, we use theoretical and computational modeling approaches and team up with experimental physicists, biologists and roboticists to reveal the principles locomotion systems.

Education:

Ph.D. in Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011

B.S. in Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, 2005

Positions:

Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Southern California, 2012-2014

Postdoctoral fellow, School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-2012

Publications:

• Selective particle capture by asynchronously beating cilia, Yang Ding and Eva Kanso, Physics of Fluids, 27, 121902 (2015). (PDF)
• Mixing and transport by ciliary carpets: a numerical study, Yang Ding, Janna C. Nawroth, Margaret J. McFall-Ngai and Eva Kanso Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 743, 124-140 (2014). (PDF)
• Lift and drag in intruders moving through hydrostatic granular media at high speeds, Fabricio Q. Potiguar and Yang Ding, Physical Review E, 88, 012204 (2013). (PDF)
• Emergence of the advancing neuromechanical phase in a resistive force dominated medium, Yang Ding, Sarah S. Sharpe, Kurt Wiesenfeld, and Daniel I. Goldman Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 110(25), 10123-10128 (2013). (PDF)
• Geometric visualization of self-propulsion in a complex medium, Ross Hatton, Yang Ding, Howie Choset, and Daniel I. Goldman, Physical Review Letters, 110, 078101 (2013). (PDF)
• Mechanics of Undulatory Swimming in a Frictional Fluid, Yang Ding, Sarah S. Sharpe, Andrew Masse and Daniel I. Goldman, Plos Computational biology, 8(12), e1002810 (2012). (PDF) (journal cover)
• Environmental interaction influences muscle activation strategy during sand-swimming in the sandfish lizard Scincus scincus , Sarah S. Sharpe, Yang Ding and Daniel I. Goldman, Journal of Experimental Biology, 216, 260 (2012). (PDF)
• Lift control in a sand-swimming robot, Ryan D. Maladen, Paul B. Umbanhowar, Yang Ding, Andrew Masse and Daniel I. Goldman, IEEE: International Conference on Robotics and Automation, (2011). (PDF)
• Comparative studies reveal principles of movement on and within granular media, Yang Ding, Nick Gravish, Chen Li, Ryan D. Maladen, Nicole Mazouchova, Sarah S. Sharpe, Paul B. Umbanhowar, and Daniel I. Goldman, IMA Workshop on Locomotion (2011). (PDF)
• Undulatory swimming in sand: experimental and simulation studies of a robotic sandfish, Ryan D. Maladen, Yang Ding, Paul B. Umbanhowar, and Daniel I. Goldman, International Journal of Robotics Research, (2011). (PDF)
• Mechanical models of sandfish locomotion reveal principles of high performance subsurface sand-swimming, Ryan D. Maladen, Yang Ding, Paul B. Umbanhowar, Adam Kamor, and Daniel I. Goldman, J. R. Soc. Interface, 8:1332-1345 (2011). (PDF + Supplemental text) (journal cover)
• Drag induced lift in granular media, Yang Ding, Nick Gravish and Daniel I. Goldman, Physical Review Letters, 106, 028001 (2011). (PDF) (Supplementary videos)
• Biophysically inspired development of a sand-swimming robot, Ryan D. Maladen, Yang Ding, Paul B. Umbanhowar, Adam Kamor and Daniel I. Goldman, Robotics: Science & Systems conference, (2010). (PDF) (movies)
• Undulatory swimming in sand: subsurface locomotion of the sandfish lizard, Ryan Maladen, Yang Ding, Chen Li and Daniel I. Goldman, Science, 325, 314 (2009). (PDF) (PDF of Supporting Online Material) (movies)

 

 

External Links:

Prof. Kanso's Lab

Prof. Goldman's CRAB Lab

Key words: biomechanics, locomotion, swimming, sensory-motor control, bioinspired robot