I was a Research Associate in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Maryland at College Park, working in the Robotics, Automation, and Medical Systems (RAMS) Laboratory, supervised by Professor Jaydev P. Desai.
EDUCATION
- Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Jan. 2007
- M.S., Precision Mechanical Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, 1997
- B.S., Precision Mechanical Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, 1994
RESEARCH
- Reseach done at UMD
- Modeling soft-tissue probing, cutting, dissection, and electrocautery tasks using FEM. Computational / analytical models will be based on experimental data from ex vivo studies on animal tissues and/or organs and also from in vivo studies for the above tasks. The developed models will then be displayed on a haptic feedback display
- Previous
- Modeling and simulation of two types of electro-active polymers, dielectric elastomers and ferroelectric polymers, using FEM
- Developed a global approach of Digital Image Correlation (DIC) technique to measure full-field strain distributions
- Micro-mechanical modeling of void nucleation using Monte Carlo method
- Digital Moiré
PUBLICATIONS
- Zhan Gao, and Jaydev P. Desai, “Estimating zero-strain states of very soft tissue under gravity loading using digital image correlation”, Medical Image Analysis, DOI: 10.1016/j.media.2009.11.002, 2010.
- Zhan Gao, Kevin Lister, and Jaydev P. Desai, “Constitutive modeling of liver tissue: experiment and theory”, Annals Biomedical Engineering, DOI: 10.1007/s10439-009-9812-0, 2010.
- Zhan Gao, Theodore Kim, Doug L. James, Jaydev P. Desai, “Semi-automated soft-tissue acquisition and modeling for surgical simulation”, 5th Annual IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, CASE 2009, pp. 268-273, August 22-25, 2009.
- Gao Z, Lister K, and Desai JP, “Constitutive modeling of liver tissue: experiment and theory”. Second biennial IEEE/RAS-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics-BioRob, October 2008.
- Cao Y, Bly R, Moore W, Gao Z,
Cuitino AM, and Soboyejo WO, “On the measurement of human osteosarcoma cell
elastic modulus using shear assay experiments”. J Mater Sci-Mater M
2007;18(1):103-9.
- Zhou J, Gao Z, Cuitino AM, and
Soboyejo WO, “Fatigue of as-fabricated open cell aluminum foam”. J Eng Mater Technol Trans ASME 2005;127(1):
40-5.5.
- Zhou J, Gao Z, Cuitiño AM, and
Soboyejo WO, “Effects of heat treatment on the compressive deformation behavior
of open cell aluminum foams”. Mater Sci Eng A
2004;386:118-28.
- Gao Z, Zhou S, and Hu Y, “High-speed fringe analysis by using stair-shaped virtual grating demodulation”. Opt Laser Eng 1997;28(6):411-22.