Yang Zhao is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering at Western University. Dr. Zhao received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from Northwestern Polytechnical University (China) in 2011 and 2014, respectively. Then, he obtained his Ph.D. degree from Western University in 2018. He worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Western University and the Advanced Light Source of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in 2019-2020.