Prof. Zhan Kang

Dalian University of Technology, China

Dr. Zhan Kang is a Changjiang Scholar Chair Professor of Dalian University of Technology. He graduated from Shanghai Jiaotong University in 1992, received his MEng in mechanics from Dalian University of Technology in 1995 and his Dr. –Ing. degree from Stuttgart University, Germany in 2005. His current research involves issues such as topology optimization, structural optimization under uncertainties, dynamic design optimization. He is the chief editor of Chinese Journal of Computational Mechanics, editor board member of Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems Part A: Civil Engineering; Part B: Mechanical Engineering. Dr. Kang has published over 140 research papers in peer-reviewed international journals and two monographs. He has received 10000 citations and has an H-index of 54 (Google Scholar). Dr. Kang has been granted the Outstanding Youth Fund of Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC).