Dr. Zhuo Yang is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at UMass Amherst. He is now working as a guest researcher at National Institute of Standard and Technology (NIST) for the collaborative project. Before joining the eDesign group at UMass Amherst, he worked in a medical equipment company as a Mechanical Engineer for three years. His research interests include additive manufacturing, predictive metamodeling, finite element modeling, and biomechanics.