​Dr. Yaoyao Fiona Zhao is currently an Associate Professor and the head of the Additive Design and Manufacturing Laboratory (ADML) at the Department of Mechanical Engineering in McGill University. She received the Bachelor of Engineering degree from Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China, in 2003, and the Master of Mechanical Engineering degree (First Class Hons.) and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, in 2006 and 2010, respectively. She was a Researcher at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, USA, and a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at Ecole Centrale de Nantes, France, from 2010 to 2012. Her research expertise lies in the general field of design and manufacturing including the exploration of new design methods for additive manufacturing and sustainable manufacturing, developing computational and data analytic tools to improve manufacturing intelligence and cognition. Her team is leading the research in Design for Additive Manufacturing with the development of new design methods and tools to achieve light-weight, multi-functionalities, less part count, better performance and better sustainability performance. 

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