Current Professional Societies

1. Young Scholar Committee member and Life member of World Association of Chinese Biomedical Engineers (WACBE);

2. Life member of International Chinese Musculoskeletal Research Society (ICMRS);

3. Section editor of the journal Medicine in Novel Technology and Devices.

Research Areas

1. Biomechanics and its medical applications: CT- or MRI-based osteoporotic fracture risk assessment (hip and spine), robot-guided surgical planning, etc.

2. Mechanobiology of bone adaptation and regeneration: mechano-regulatory mechanisms of bone formation and regeneration, treatment strategies of osteoporotic or disuse-related bone loss and fracture healing.

Honors

1. Outstanding Teacher of Beijing University of Technology (2020);

2. Beijing Outstanding Talents (2017);

3. The Title of Beijing Specially Recruited Experts (2017).

Publications

1. Zhang L, Wang L, Fu R, Wang J, Yang D, Liu Y, Zhang W, Liang W, Yang R, Yang H*, Cheng X*. In Vivo Assessment of Age- and Loading Configuration-Related Changes in Multiscale Mechanical Behavior of the Human Proximal Femur Using MRI-Based Finite Element Analysis. J Magn Reson Imaging. 2020 Oct 19. doi: 10.1002/jmri.27403. Online ahead of print.

2. Li B, Wang H, Li G, Liu J, Zhang Z, Gu K, Yang H, Qiao A, Du J, Liu Y. A patient-specific modelling method of blood circulatory system for the numerical simulation of enhanced external counterpulsation. J Biomech. 2020 Oct 9;111:110002. doi: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2020.110002. Epub 2020 Aug 20.

3.Yang H, Xu X, Bullock W, Main RP. Adaptive changes in micromechanical environments of cancellous and cortical bone in response to in vivo loading and disuse. J Biomech. 2019 May 24;89:85-94. doi: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2019.04.021. Epub 2019 Apr 19

4. Yue Y^#, Yang H^#, Li Y, Zhong H, Tang Q, Wang J, Wang R, He H, Chen W, Chen D. Combining ultrasonic and computed tomography scanning to characterize mechanical properties of cancellous bone in necrotic human femoral heads. Med Eng Phys. 2019 Apr;66:12-17. doi: 10.1016/j.medengphy.2019.02.002. Epub 2019 Feb 14.

5.Yang H, Albiol L, Chan WL, Wulsten D, Seliger A, Thelen M, Thiele T, Spevak L, Boskey A, Kornak U, Checa S, Willie BM. Examining tissue composition, whole-bone morphology and mechanical behavior of GorabPrx1 mice tibiae: A mouse model of premature aging. J Biomech. 2017 Dec 8;65:145-153. doi: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2017.10.018. Epub 2017

6.Yang H, Lambrechts NE, Lehner M, Adam GM, Packer RA, Moore TW, Main RP. Effects of conventional and slanted ventral slot procedures on the biomechanical behavior of the C5-C6 vertebral motion unit in dogs. Am J Vet Res. 2016 Aug;77(8):846-53. doi: 10.2460/ajvr.77.8.846.

7.Yang H, Jekir MG, Davis MW, Keaveny TM. Effective modulus of the human intervertebral disc and its effect on vertebral bone stress. J Biomech. 2016 May 3;49(7):1134-1140. doi: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2016.02.045. Epub 2016 Feb 27.

8. Nawathe S, Yang H, Fields AJ, Bouxsein ML, Keaveny TM. Theoretical effects of fully ductile versus fully brittle behaviors of bone tissue on the strength of the human proximal femur and vertebral body. J Biomech. 2015 May 1;48(7):1264-9. doi: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2015.02.066. Epub 2015 Mar 12.

9.Yang H, Butz KD, Duffy D, Niebur GL, Nauman EA, Main RP. Characterization of cancellous and cortical bone strain in the in vivo mouse tibial loading model using microCT-based finite element analysis. Bone. 2014 Sep;66:131-9. doi: 10.1016/j.bone.2014.05.019. Epub 2014 Jun 9.

10.Yang H, Nawathe S, Fields AJ, Keaveny TM. Micromechanics of the human vertebral body for forward flexion. J Biomech. 2012 Aug 9;45(12):2142-8. doi: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2012.05.044. Epub 2012 Jun 16.

Personal statement

Ph.D. and Professor Haisheng Yang is the Head of the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Environment and Life, Beijing University of Technology. He received his doctoral degree in Mechanics/Biomechanics in 2013 from Harbin Institute of Technology (jointly with the University of California, Berkeley). Afterward (2013-2015), he worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Purdue Musculoskeletal Biology and Mechanics Lab at the Department of Basic Medical Sciences, Purdue University, United States. As a Research Associate (2016-2017), he worked for the Research Centre of Shriners Hospitals for Children-Canada at McGill University, Canada. Dr. Yang’s research interests include orthopaedic biomechanics and mechanobiology of bone adaptation and regeneration.