Dr. Lin Jian
University of Missouri, Columbia - William R. Kimel Faculty Fellow in Engineering, United States
Dr. Jian “Javen” Lin is an Associate Professor Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, a William R. Kimel Faculty Fellow at University of Missouri (MU). Prior to MU, he was a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science at Rice University from 2011 to 2014. He got a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical and Automation Engineering from Zhejiang University in 2007. Then he studied at University of California-Riverside and received his M.S. in Electrical Engineering and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering in 2010 and 2011, respectively. In 2015, Dr. Lin was awarded the ORAU Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award, received an Emerging Young Investigator award from Journal of Material Chemistry in 2016, and Sony Faculty Innovation Award in 2020.
Dr. Lin’s research group dedicates computational and experimental research in advanced manufacturing to promote biomedical, energy, and robotics fields. The research lies in two main clusters: 1) autonomous material research powered by artificial intelligence and robotics; 2) 3D/4D printing.