H. Jerry Qi
Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Professor H. Jerry Qi received his undergraduate and graduate degrees from Tsinghua University and a Doctor of Science degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). After one-year postdoc at MIT, he joined the University of Colorado Boulder and moved to Georgia Institute of Technology (GT) in 2014. Currently, he is a professor in the School of Mechanical Engineering and the School of Material Science and Engineering (by courtesy) at GT. He is also the site director of US National Science Foundation (NSF) Industry/University Collaborative Research Center (IUCRC) on Science of Heterogeneous Additive Printing of 3D Materials (SHAP3D).
His research is in the broad field of nonlinear mechanics of polymeric materials and focuses on developing fundamental understanding of multi-field properties of soft active materials through experimentation and theoretical and computational modeling then applying these understandings to application designs. He and his collaborators have been working on a range of soft active materials, including shape memory polymers, light activated polymers, covalent adaptable network polymers. In recent years, he has been working on integrating active materials with 3D printing. He and his collaborators pioneered the 4D printing field. He is a recipient of NSF CAREER award (2007), Sigma Xi Best Faculty Paper Award (2018), Gerhard Kanig Lecture by the Berlin-Brandenburg Association for Polymer Research (2019), the James R. Rice Medal from Society of Engineering Science (2023), the ASME Warner T. Koiter Medal (2024). He was elected to an ASME Fellow in 2015.