Yang Jiao

Yang Jiao

Professor,
School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy
  • yang.jiao.2@asu.edu
  • Phone: 480-965-4560
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  • ENGRC 387 Tempe, AZ 85287-6106
  • Mail code: 6106
    Campus: Tempe
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Yang Jiao is a professor of materials science and engineering in the School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy at Arizona State University. Jiao obtained his B.E. from Peking University, China in 2005 and Ph.D. from Princeton University in 2010. He has developed analytical and computational models for complex materials which can deepen fundamental understanding of the nature of such materials. Before joining ASU in 2013, Jiao was a postdoctoral reserach associate at the Physical Science in Oncology Center and Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials at Princeton University.

Education
  • Ph.D. Princeton University 2010 
  • B.E. Peking University, China 2005 
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Research Interests

Microstructure and effective properties of heterogeneous materials; multifunctional composites design and modeling; soft matter (colloids, foams and polymer network); granular materials; biomaterials; physics of cancer.

 

Research Group

Group website: http://complexmaterial.lab.asu.edu/

Publications

2008 and before

  • H. Duan, Y. Jiao, X. Yi, Z. Huang and J. Wang

    Solutions of Inhomogeneity Problems with Graded Shell and Applications to Core-Shell Nanoparticles and Composites

    Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids  54, 1401 (2006)

  • Y. Jiao, F. H. Stillinger and S. Torquato

    Modeling Heterogeneous Materials via Two-Point Correlation Functions: Basic Principles 

    Physical Review E 76, 031110 (2007)

  • Y. Jiao, F. H. Stillinger and S. Torquato

    Modeling Heterogeneous Materials via Two-Point Correlation Functions II: Algorithmic Details and Applications

    Physical Review E  77, 031135 (2008)  

  • Y. Jiao, F. H. Stillinger and S. Torquato  

    Optimal Packings of Superdisks and the Role of Symmetry

    Physical Review Letters 100, 245504 (2008)

　

2009

  • Y. Jiao, F. H. Stillinger and S. Torquato

    Dense Packings of Superballs

    Physical Review E 79, 041309 (2009)

  • S. Torquato and Y. Jiao 

    Dense Packings of Platonic and Archimedean Solids

    Nature 460, 876 (2009)

    [The Featured Cover Story of Aug. 13, 2009 issue of Nature ]

  • Y. Jiao, F. H. Stillinger and S. Torquato

    A Superior Descriptor of Random Textures and Its Predictive Capacity

    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 106, 17634 (2009)

  • S. Torquato and Y. Jiao 

    Dense Packings of Polyhedra: Platonic and Archimedean Solids

    Physical Review E 80, 041104 (2009)

2010

  • Y. Jiao, F. H. Stillinger and S. Torquato    

    Geometrical Ambiguity of Pair Statistics I. Point Configurations

    Physical Review E 81, 011105 (2010)

  • Y. Jiao, F. H. Stillinger and S. Torquato    

    Distinctive Features Arising in Maximally Random Jammed Packings of Superballs

    Physical Review E 81, 041304 (2010)

    [Figure 7b is selected as the "Kaleidoscope Image"  by Phys. Rev. E.]  

  • S. Torquato and Y. Jiao  

    Exact Constructions of a Family of Dense Periodic Packings of Tetrahedra

    Physical Review E 81, 041310 (2010)

    　

  • Y. Jiao, F. H. Stillinger and S. Torquato    

    Geometrical Ambiguity of Pair Statistics II. Heterogeneous Materials

    Physical Review E 82, 011106 (2010)

  • S. Torquato and Y. Jiao

    Robust Algorithm to Generate a Diverse Class of Dense Disordered and Ordered Sphere Packings via Linear Programming

    Physical Review E 82, 061302 (2010)

2011

  • Y. Jiao, F. H. Stillinger and S. Torquato    

    Controllable Diversity of Jammed Hard-Sphere Packings with Variable Density and Disorder

    Journal of Applied Physics 109, 013508 (2011)

  • C. Zachary, Y. Jiao and S. Torquato

    Hyperuniform Long-Range Correlations Are a Signature of Disordered Jammed Hard-Particles Packings

    Physical Review Letters 106, 178001 (2011)

  • C. Zachary, Y. Jiao and S. Torquato

    Hyperuniformity, Quasi-Long-Range Correlations, and Void-Space Constraints in Maximally Random Jammed Particle Packings.

    I. Polydisperse Spheres

    Physical Review E 83, 051308 (2011)

  • C. Zachary, Y. Jiao and S. Torquato

    Hyperuniformity, Quasi-Long-Range Correlations, and Void-Space Constraints in Maximally Random Jammed Particle Packings.

    II. Anisotropy in Particle Shape

    Physical Review E 83, 051309 (2011)

  • J. Conway, Y. Jiao and S. Torquato

    A New Family of Tilings of 3D Space by Tetrahedra and Octahedra

    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 108, 11009 (2011)

  • H. Cohn, Y. Jiao, A. Kumar and S. Torquato

    Rigidity of Spherical Codes

    Geometry and Topology 15, 2235 (2011)

  • A. Hopkins, Y. Jiao, F. H. Stillinger and S. Torquato

    Phase Diagram and Structural Diversity of Densest Binary Sphere Packings

    Physical Review Letters 107, 125501 (2011)

  • Y. Jiao and S. Torquato

    Communication: A Dense Packing of Truncated Tetrahedra that Nearly Fills All Space and its Melting Properties

    Journal of Chemical Physics 135, 151101 (2011)

    [Featured on the cover of October 17, 2011 issue of J. Chem. Phys.]

  • Y. Jiao and S. Torquato

    Maximally Random Jammed Packings of Platonic Solids: Isostaticity and hyperuniformity

    Physical Review E 84, 041309 (2011)

  • Y. Jiao, H. Berman T-R Kiehl and S. Torquato

    Spatial Organization and Correlation of Cell Nuclei in Brain Tumors

    PLoS One 6, e27323 (2011)

  • Y. Jiao and S. Torquato

    Emergent Properties from a Cellular Automaton Model for Invasive Tumor Growth in Heterogeneous Environment

    PLoS Computational Biology 7, 1002314 (2011)

2012

  • C. Gommes, Y. Jiao and S. Torquato

    The Amount of Morphological Information Missing in Spatial Correlation Functions

    Physical Review Letters 108, 080601 (2012)

  • Y. Jiao and S. Torquato

    Diversity of Dynamics and Morphologies of Invasive Solid Tumors

    AIP Advances 2, 011003 (2012)

    [Invited paper for special issue "Physics of Cancer"]

  • Y. Jiao and S. Torquato

    Quantitative Characterization of the Microstructure and Transport Properties of Biopolymer Networks

    Physical Biology 9, 036009 (2012)

  • C. Gommes, Y. Jiao and S. Torquato

    Microstructural Degeneracy Associated with  a Two Correlation Function and Its Information Content

    Physical Review E 85, 051140 (2012)

  • S. Torquato and Y. Jiao

    Organizing Principles for Dense Packings of Nonspherical Particles: Not All Shapes Are Created Equal

    Physical Review E 86, 011102 (2012)

  • S. Torquato and Y. Jiao

    Effect of Dimensionality on the Continuum Percolation of Overlapping Hyperspheres and Hypercubes. II. Simulations and Analyses 

    Journal of Chemical Physics 137, 074106 (2012)

  • S. Atkinson, Y. Jiao and S. Torquato

    Maximally Dense Packings of Two-Dimensional Convex and Concave Noncircular Particles

    Physical Review E 86, 031302 (2012)

    [Figure 6 is selected as the "Kaleidoscope Image"  by Phys. Rev. E.]  

  • S. Singh, J. J. Williams, Y. Jiao and N. Chawla

    Modeling Anisotropic Multiphase Heterogeneous Materials via Direction Correlation Functions: Simulations and Experimental Verfication

    Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A 43, 4470 (2012)

  • R. Gabbrielli, Y. Jiao and S. Torquato

    Families of Tessellations of Space by Elementary Polyhedra via Retessellations of the Face-Centered-Cubic Tiling

    Physical Review E 86, 041141 (2012)

2013

  • S. Torquato and Y. Jiao

    Effect of Dimensionality on the Percolation Threshold of Anisotropic Overlapping Particles

    Physical Review E 87, 022111 (2013)

  • Y. Jiao, E. Padilla and N. Chawla

    Modeling and Predicting Microstructure Evolution in Lead/Tin Alloy via Correlation Functions and Stochastic Material Reconstruction

    Acta Materialia 61, 3370 (2013)

  • S. Torquato and Y. Jiao

    Effect of Dimensionality on the Percolation Thresholds of Various d-Dimensional Lattices

    Physical Review E 87, 032149 (2013)

  • Y. Jiao and S. Torquato

    Evolution and Morphology of Microenvironment-Enhanced Malignancy of Three-Dimensional Invasive Solid Tumors

    Physical Review E 87, 052707 (2013)

　2014

  • Y. Jiao

    Three-Dimensional Heterogeneous Material Microstructure Reconstruction from Limited Morphological Information via Stochastic Optimization

    AIMS Materials Science 1, 28 (2014)

    [Invited paper for special issue "Materials by Design"]

  • E.Y. Guo, N. Chawla, T. Jing, S. Torquato, and Y. Jiao

    Accurate Modeling and Reconstruction of Three-Dimensional Filamentary Structures from Two-Dimensional Micrographs via Dilation-Erosion Method

    Materials Characterization 89, 33 (2014)

  • R. Gabbrielli, Y. Jiao and S. Torquato

    Dense Periodic Packings of Tori

    Physical Review E 89, 022133 (2014)

    [Selected as "Editors' Suggestion" by Phys. Rev. E]

  • Y. Jiao, T. Lau, H. Haztzikirou, M. Meyer-Hermann, J. C. Corbo, and S. Torquato

    Avian Photoreceptor Patterns Represent a Disordered Hyperuniform Solution to a Multiscale Packing Problem

    Physical Review E 89, 022721 (2014)

    [Highlighted in Princeton Top Stories]

  • Y. Jiao and N. Chawla

    Three-Dimensional Modeling of Complex Heterogeneous Material via Statistical Microstructural Descriptors

    Integrating Materials and Manufacturing Innovation 3, 3 (2014)

    [Invited paper for special issue "3D Materials Science"]

  • Y. Jiao and N. Chawla

    Modeling and Charactering Anisotropic Inclusion Orientation in Heterogeneous Materials via Directional Cluster Function and Stochastic Reconstruction

    Journal of Applied Physics 115, 093511 (2014)

  • Y. Jiao

    A Generalized Lattice-Point Method for Reconstructing Heterogeneous Materials from Lower-Order Correlation Functions

    Annals of Materials Science and Engineering 1, 11 (2014)

    [Invited review paper for the Inaugural Issue]

  • H.C. Li, N. Chawla, and Y. Jiao

    Reconstruction of Heterogeneous Materials via Stochastic Optimization of Limited-Angle X-ray Tomographic Projections

    Scripta Materialia 86, 48 (2014)

  • D. Chen, Y. Jiao and S. Torquato

    Equilibrium Phase Behavior and Maximally Random Jammed State of Truncated Tetrahedra

    Journal of Physical Chemistry B 118, 7981 (2014)

  • H. Chen, E. Lin, Y. Jiao, and Y. Liu

    A Generalized 2D Non-Local Lattice Spring Model for Fracture Simulation

    Computational Mechanics 54, 1541 (2014)

  • D. Chen, Y. Jiao, and S. Torquato

    A Cellular Automaton Model for Tumor Dormancy: Emergence of a Proliferative Switch

    PLoS One 9, e109934 (2014)

  • C. Jones, L. Liang, D. Lin, Y. Jiao, and B. Sun

    The Spatial-Temporal Characteristics of Type I Collagen-Based Extracellular Matrix

    Soft Matter 10, 8855 (2014)

2015

  • L. Liang and Y. Jiao

    Microenvironment-Enhanced Invasive Tumor Growth via Cellular Automaton Simulations

    Acta Physica Sinica 64, 058706 (2015)

  • J. Zhu, L. Liang, Y. Jiao, and L. Liu

    Enhanced Invasion of Metastatic Cancer Cells via Extracellular Matrix Interface

    PLoS One 10, e0118058 (2015)

  • H. Chen, Y. Jiao, and Y. Liu

    Investigating the Microstructural Effect on Elastic and Fracture Behavior of Polycrystals Using a Nonlocal Lattice-Particle Model

    Materials Science and Engineering A 631, 173 (2015)

  • S. Chen, H. Li, and Y. Jiao

    Dynamic Reconstruction of Heterogeneous Materials and Microstructure Evolution

    Physical Review E 92, 023301 (2015)

  • J. Tian, Y. Xu, Y. Jiao, and S. Torquato

    A Geometric-Structure Theory for Maximally Random Jammed Packings

    Scientific Reports 5, 16722 (2015)

　2016

  • S Chen, A. Kirubanandham, N. Chawla and Y. Jiao

    Stochastic Multi-Scale Reconstruction of 3D Microstructure Consisting of Polycrystalline Grains and Second-Phase Particles from 2D Micrographs

    Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A 47, 1440 (2016)

  • H. Chen, Y. Jiao and Y. Liu

    A Nonlocal Lattice Particle Model for Fracture Simulation of Anisotropic Materials

    Composites Part B 90, 141 (2016)

  • H. Chen, Y. Xu, Y. Jiao and Y. Liu

    A Novel Discrete Computational Tool for Microstructure-Sensitive Mechanical Analysis of Composite Materials Materials

    Materials Science and Engineering A 659, 234 (2016)

  • L. Meng, Y. Jiao and S. Li

    Maximally Dense Random Packings of Spherocylinders

    Powder Technology 292, 176 (2016)

  • W. Gao, Y. Jiao and L. Dai

    Effects of Size, Shape, and Surface Composition on the Diffusive Behaviors of Nanoparticles at/across Water-Oil Interfaces via Molecular Dynamics Simulations

    Journal of Nanoparticle Research 18, 91 (2016)

  • H. Chen, L. Meng, S. Chen, Y. Jiao and Y. Liu

    Numerical Investigation of Microstructure Effect on Mechanical Properties of Bi-continuous and Particulate Reinforced Composite Materials

    Computational Materials Science 122, 288 (2016)

  • H. Li, S. Singh, C. S. Kaira, J. C. E. Mertens, J. J. Williams, N. Chawla, and Y. Jiao

    Microstructural Quantification and Property Prediction Using Limited X-ray Tomography Data

    JOM 68, 2288 (2016)

  • H. Li, C. S. Kaira, J. Mertens, N. Chawla, and Y. Jiao

    Accurate Stochastic Reconstruction of Heterogeneous Microstructures by Limited X-ray Tomographic Projections

    Journal of Microscopy 264, 339 (2016)

  • W. Xu, X. Su, and Y. Jiao

    Continuum Percolation of Congruent Overlapping Spherocylinders

    Physical Review E 94, 032122 (2016)

  • S. Chen, Y. Xu, and Y. Jiao

    Modeling Morphology evolution and densification during solid-state sintering via kinetic Monte Carlo simulation

    Modeling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering 24, 085003 (2016)

  • W. Han, S. Chen, W. Yuan, Q. Fan, J. Tian, X. Wang, L. Chen, X. Zhang, W. Wei, R. Liu, J. Qu, Y. Jiao, R. H. Austin, and L. Liu

    Oriented Collagen Fibers Direct Tumor Cell Intravasation

    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113, 11208 (2016)

  • L. Liang, C. Jones, S. Chen, B. Sun, and Y. Jiao

    Heterogeneous Force Network in 3D Cellularized Collagen Networks

    Physical Biology 13, 066001 (2016)

　2017

  • S. Chen, Y. Xu, and Y. Jiao

    Modeling Solid-State Sintering with Externally Applied Pressure: A Geometric Force Approach

    AIMS Materials Science 4, 75 (2017)

  • L. Liu, Z. Li, Y. Jiao and S. Li

    Maximally Dense Random Packings of Cubes and Cuboids via Novel Inverse Packing Method

    Soft Matter 13, 748 (2017)

  • W. Jin, Y. Jiao, L. Liu, Y. Yuan, and S. Li

    Dense Crystalline Packings of Ellipsoids

    Physical Review E 95, 033003 (2017)

  • S. Chen, M. Adepu, H. Emady, Y. Jiao, and A. Gel

    Enhancing the Physical Modeling Capability of Open-Source MFIX-DEM Software for Handling Particle Size Polydispersity: Implementation and Validation

    Powder Technology, (2017)

  • W. Xu, F. Wu, Y. Jiao, M. Liu

    A General Micromechanical Framework of Effective Moduli for the Design of Nonspherical Nano- and Micro-particle Reinforced Composites with Interface Properties

    Materials & Design, (2017)

  • R. Cang, Y. Xu, S. Chen, Y. Liu, Y. Jiao, and Y. Ren

    Microstructure Representation and Reconstruction of Heterogeneous Materials via Deep Belief Network for Computational Material Design

    ASME Journal of Mechanical Design, (2017)

　

Research Activity
  • Yang Jiao*, Direct microsructure quantification and property prediction of porous materials from limited imaging data. ACS Petroleum Research Fund (9/1/2016 - 8/31/2019)
  • Yi Ren*, Yongming Liu, Yang Jiao, EAGER: Reconstruction and Optimal Design of Multi-scale Material Systems through Deep Networks (9/1/2016 - 8/31/2017)
  • Gel,Aytekin*, Emady,Heather Nicole, Jiao,Yang. MFIX-DEM PHI: PERFORMANCE AND CAPABILITY IMPROVEMENTS TOWARDS INDUSTRIAL GRADE OPEN-SOURCE DEM FRAMEWORK WITH INTEGRATED UNCERTAINTY QUANTIFICATION. DOE-NETL(9/9/2015 - 2/28/2018).
  • Jiao,Yang*. Integrated Computational Scheme for the Characterization Modeling and Prediction of Microstructure Evolution and Fatigue Response in Titanium Alloys. DOD-DARPA(9/9/2014 - 9/8/2017).
  • Jiao,Yang*, Chawla,Nikhilesh. Microstructural Evolution via Stochastic Morphology Reconstruction from Limited Tomography Data: Modeling Simulation and Experimental Verification. NSF-MPS-DMR(9/15/2013 - 8/31/2016).
Courses
2025 Spring
Course Number Course Title
MSE 335 Materials Kinetics
MSE 599 Thesis
MSE 792 Research
MSE 795 Continuing Registration
MSE 799 Dissertation
MAE 792 Research
MAE 795 Continuing Registration
MAE 799 Dissertation
CHE 593 Applied Project
MAE 792 Research
MAE 593 Applied Project
MSE 493 Honors Thesis
MSE 599 Thesis
2024 Fall
Course Number Course Title
MSE 330 Thermodynamics of Materials
CHE 592 Research
MSE 599 Thesis
MSE 792 Research
MSE 795 Continuing Registration
MSE 799 Dissertation
MSE 599 Thesis
MSE 524 Advanced Thermodynamics
2024 Summer
Course Number Course Title
MAE 792 Research
MSE 595 Continuing Registration
MSE 792 Research
MSE 792 Research
2024 Spring
Course Number Course Title
MSE 561 Kinetics&Phase Trans in Solids
MSE 599 Thesis
MSE 792 Research
MSE 795 Continuing Registration
MSE 799 Dissertation
MAE 792 Research
MAE 795 Continuing Registration
MAE 799 Dissertation
CHE 593 Applied Project
MAE 792 Research
MSE 561 Kinetics&Phase Trans in Solids
MAE 593 Applied Project
MSE 493 Honors Thesis
MSE 599 Thesis
MSE 792 Research
2023 Fall
Course Number Course Title
MSE 330 Thermodynamics of Materials
MAE 792 Research
MAE 795 Continuing Registration
MAE 799 Dissertation
CHE 592 Research
MSE 599 Thesis
MSE 792 Research
MSE 795 Continuing Registration
MSE 799 Dissertation
MAE 593 Applied Project
MSE 492 Honors Directed Study
MSE 599 Thesis
2023 Summer
Course Number Course Title
MAE 792 Research
MSE 595 Continuing Registration
MSE 792 Research
MSE 792 Research
2023 Spring
Course Number Course Title
MSE 561 Kinetics&Phase Trans in Solids
MSE 599 Thesis
MSE 792 Research
MSE 795 Continuing Registration
MSE 799 Dissertation
MAE 792 Research
MAE 795 Continuing Registration
MAE 799 Dissertation
CHE 593 Applied Project
MAE 792 Research
MSE 561 Kinetics&Phase Trans in Solids
MAE 593 Applied Project
MSE 493 Honors Thesis
MSE 792 Research
2022 Fall
Course Number Course Title
MSE 330 Thermodynamics of Materials
MAE 792 Research
MAE 795 Continuing Registration
MAE 799 Dissertation
MSE 599 Thesis
MSE 792 Research
MSE 795 Continuing Registration
MSE 799 Dissertation
MAE 593 Applied Project
MSE 492 Honors Directed Study
2022 Summer
Course Number Course Title
MAE 792 Research
MSE 595 Continuing Registration
MSE 792 Research
MSE 792 Research
2022 Spring
Course Number Course Title
MSE 561 Kinetics&Phase Trans in Solids
MSE 599 Thesis
MSE 792 Research
MSE 795 Continuing Registration
MSE 799 Dissertation
MAE 792 Research
MAE 795 Continuing Registration
MAE 799 Dissertation
CHE 593 Applied Project
MAE 792 Research
MSE 561 Kinetics&Phase Trans in Solids
MAE 593 Applied Project
MSE 792 Research
2021 Fall
Course Number Course Title
MSE 330 Thermodynamics of Materials
MAE 792 Research
MAE 795 Continuing Registration
MAE 799 Dissertation
CHE 592 Research
MSE 599 Thesis
MSE 792 Research
MSE 795 Continuing Registration
MSE 799 Dissertation
MAE 593 Applied Project
2021 Summer
Course Number Course Title
MAE 792 Research
MSE 595 Continuing Registration
MSE 792 Research
MSE 792 Research
2021 Spring
Course Number Course Title
MSE 561 Kinetics&Phase Trans in Solids
MSE 599 Thesis
MSE 792 Research
MSE 795 Continuing Registration
MSE 799 Dissertation
MAE 792 Research
MAE 795 Continuing Registration
MAE 799 Dissertation
CHE 593 Applied Project
MSE 561 Kinetics&Phase Trans in Solids
MAE 593 Applied Project
2020 Fall
Course Number Course Title
MAE 792 Research
MAE 795 Continuing Registration
MAE 799 Dissertation
CHE 592 Research
MSE 599 Thesis
MSE 792 Research
MSE 795 Continuing Registration
MSE 799 Dissertation
CHE 593 Applied Project
MAE 593 Applied Project
2020 Summer
Course Number Course Title
MAE 792 Research
MSE 595 Continuing Registration
MSE 792 Research
MSE 792 Research
2020 Spring
Course Number Course Title
MSE 561 Kinetics&Phase Trans in Solids
MSE 599 Thesis
MSE 792 Research
MSE 795 Continuing Registration
MSE 799 Dissertation
MAE 792 Research
MAE 795 Continuing Registration
MAE 799 Dissertation
MAE 598 Special Topics
2019 Fall
Course Number Course Title
MAE 792 Research
MAE 795 Continuing Registration
MAE 799 Dissertation
MSE 599 Thesis
MSE 792 Research
MSE 795 Continuing Registration
MSE 799 Dissertation
MSE 250 Structure&Properties-Materials
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MSE 250 Structure&Properties-Materials
MSE 250 Structure&Properties-Materials
MSE 250 Structure&Properties-Materials
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MSE 250 Structure&Properties-Materials
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