Shaoyu Zhao
Details
Department: School of Engineering
Campus: City Campus Australia
shaoyu.zhao@rmit.edu.au
ORCID: 0000-0001-5937-5366
Open to
- Masters Research or PhD student supervision
About
Dr Shaoyu Zhao is a Lecturer & ARC DECRA Fellow at Swinburne University of Technology and an Adjunct Fellow at RMIT University. He obtained his PhD at the University of Queensland in August 2022, and then worked as a Research Fellow at RMIT University until July 2025.
His research interests include advanced composite materials and structures, mechanical metamaterials, mechanics of carbon nanotube/graphene nanocomposites, functionally graded materials, origami/kirigami engineering, and artificial intelligence in engineering applications. He has published more than 50 academic papers in top-tier international journals, including two ESI highly cited papers, with over 2300 citations and an H-index of 27.
He serves as an Early Career Editorial Board Member for several SCI journals, including Engineering Structures (Q1 journal), International Journal of Structural Integrity (Q1 journal), and International Journal of Smart and Nano Materials (Q1 journal).
Awards:
Best paper award, The First International Conference on Engineering Structures (ICES2024)
Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (2025), Australian Research Council
Supervisor projects
- Smart and sustainable metaconcrete composite structures
- 17 Mar 2025
- Multiscale modelling of high-performance mechanical metallic metamaterial composites for aerospace applications
- 27 Nov 2024
- Machine Learning-Based Numerical Simulation and Design for 3D-Printed Functionally Graded Composite Structures
- 16 Sep 2024
Teaching interests
Supervisor interest areas:
-Advanced composite structures
-Mechanical metamaterials
-Metaconcrete structures
-Functionally graded structures
-Molecular dynamics simulations
-Graphene/Carbon nanotube nanocomposites
Undergraduate teaching:
MIET1076 - Mechanical Vibrations
