Yu ZouProfile page
Associate Professor
Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering, Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Orcid identifier0000-0002-0179-3642
- Associate ProfessorFaculty of Applied Science and Engineering, Department of Materials Science and Engineering
BIO
Dr. Yu Zou joined the MSE Department at U of T as an Assistant Professor in January 2018, after working as a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. He received his doctorate, master’s, and bachelor’s degrees from ETH Zurich, McGill University, and Beihang University, respectively, all in Materials Science and Engineering. He was also a JSPS visiting scholar at Kyoto University.
At U of T, Dr. Zou leads the Laboratory for Extreme Mechanics & Additive Manufacturing (LEMAM) and the research topics of his group include the design of novel metallic materials, multiscale mechanical testing, metal additive manufacturing (3D printing) and applied machine learning. At U of T, Dr. Zou is teaching “Mechanical behaviour of materials”, “Fracture and failure of materials” and “Additive manufacturing of advanced engineering materials”. Dr. Zou is currently serving as the Chair of Materials Technical Section in the Metallurgy and Materials Society of CIM (MetSoc) in Canada.
At U of T, Dr. Zou leads the Laboratory for Extreme Mechanics & Additive Manufacturing (LEMAM) and the research topics of his group include the design of novel metallic materials, multiscale mechanical testing, metal additive manufacturing (3D printing) and applied machine learning. At U of T, Dr. Zou is teaching “Mechanical behaviour of materials”, “Fracture and failure of materials” and “Additive manufacturing of advanced engineering materials”. Dr. Zou is currently serving as the Chair of Materials Technical Section in the Metallurgy and Materials Society of CIM (MetSoc) in Canada.
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
- Assistant ProfessorUniversity of Toronto, Department of Materials Science & Engineering, Toronto, Canada1 Jan 2018 - present
- Assistant Professor (Non-budgetary cross-appointment)University of Toronto, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering, Canada1 Jul 2018 - present
NON-ACADEMIC POSITIONS
- Postdoctoral Research FellowMassachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States2016 - 2017
- Graduate Research AssistantETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland2011 - 2016
- Visiting ScholarKyoto University, Japan2014 - 2015
DEGREES
- PhD in Materials ScienceETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland2011 - 2016
- MEng in Materials ScienceMcGill University, Montreal, Canada2007 - 2010
- BEng in Material Science & EngineeringBeihang University, Beijing, China2003 - 2007
LANGUAGES
- Chinese (Mandarin)
- English
INSTITUTIONAL STRATEGIC INITIATIVES
- Acceleration Consortium
- Climate Positive Energy (CPE)
- Data Sciences Institute (DSI)