Xiayun Zhao, PhD

  • Assistant Professor
  • Department of Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science

Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science 
Director, ZXY Intelligent Precision Additive Manufacturing (ZIP-AM) Laboratory

​Dr. Xiayun Zhao has been a faculty at the Department of Mechanical and Materials Science in the University of Pittsburgh (PITT) since August 2018. She received a B.S. from the Department of Precision Instruments in Tsinghua University (China). Before pursuing her PhD at Georgia Tech, she worked full time as an instrumentation and control system engineer in Houston for a couple of years.

Research Interests

  • Additive manufacturing
  • Measurement Science
  • Process Control
  • Cyber-Physical System
  • Precision Engineering

Education & Training

  • BS, Precision Engineering - Measurement Science and Control Technology, Tsinghua University, 2002 - 2006
  • MS, Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008 - 2009
  • PhD, Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2014 - 2017