Yue Du
Name: Yue Du
Sex: Female
Department: Institute of Robotics and Automatic Information Systems
Position: Assistant Professor
Education: Doctor of Philosophy
Major: Mechanical Engineering
Phone: (022) 2350 3960
Email: duyue@nankai.edu.cn
Research area: Robotic micro-/nano-operation system and applications; medical image analysis; diagnostic and prognostic analysis; mechanical properties of tissue and cell
[Education and Work Experience]
Sep. 2019 – Present Assistant Professor, Artificial Intelligence School, Nankai University
Jan. 2017 – May 2019 Postdoc, The University of Oklahoma
Jan. 2015– Feb. 2016Research Fellow, National University of Singapore
Aug. 2010 – Jul. 2015 PhD, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Sep. 2007 – Dec. 2009Master’s degree, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China
Sep. 2003 – Jun. 2007 Bachelor’s degree, Northeast Agriculture University
Dr Du are carrying out research on robotic micro-operation system, computer vision, precise medicine and biomechanics. She had participated in several international agency-supported projects like NIH (USA), SMART (Singapore), A*STAR (Singapore). Dr Du had published more than 10 papers in peer-reviewed journal or international conference.
Dr Du belonged to Profess Xin Zhao’s group. Our group focused on the development of robotic micro-/nano-operation system and applications, machine vision. Please contact us if you would like to join our group.
[Projects,Award and Patent]
1. The National Natural Science Foundation of China, “Multiscale Characterization of Micromanipulation-Induced Cell Damageand Developmental Potential Prediction”, 01/2021 - 12/2023, Principle Investigator
2. The National Key R&D Program of China, “Critical Technologies and Systems of Micro-Manipulation Robot”, 05/2019 - 04/2022
3. The National Natural Science Foundation of China，Joint Fund Project，“Critical Technologies and Systems of Micro-Manipulation Robot for Reducing Cell Damage”, 01/2019 - 12/2022
4. National Institute of Health, Increasing Cancer Detection Yield Using Breast MRI Screening Modality, 07/07/2015 - 06/30/2020
5. Oklahoma Center for the Advancement of Science and Technology, Quantitative Image Analysis for Predicting Early Response of Ovarian Cancer Patients to Chemotherapy, 08/01/2015 - 07/31/2018
6. Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Effectively Simultaneous Localized Manipulation of Magnetic Particles, 02/01/2013-01/31/2016
7. Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology, Active Manipulation of Extracellular Matrix Stiffness, 07/01/2011-06/30/2012
[Publications and Books]
1. Du, Y., Zhang, R., Zargari, A., Theresa, T., Gunderson, C., Moxley, K., Liu, H., Zheng, B., Qiu, Y.C.* Classification of Tumor Epithelium and Stroma by Exploiting Image Features Learned by Deep Convolutional Neural Networks. Annals of Biomedical Engineering 46, 1988-1999 (2018).
2. Zargari, A.^, Du, Y.^, Heidari, M., Theresa, T., Gunderson, C., Moore, K., Mannel, R., Liu, H., Zheng, B., Qiu, Y.C.* Prediction of Chemotherapy Response in Ovarian Cancer Patients Using a New Clustered Quantitative Image Marker. Physics in Medicine & Biology 63, 155020(2018).
3. Du, Y., Herath, S. C. B., Wang, Q. G., Asada, H., & Chen, P. C. Y.* Determination of Green's Function for Three- dimensional Traction Force Reconstruction Based on Geometry and Boundary Conditions of Cell Culture Matrices. Acta Biomaterialia 67, 215 (2017). （Top Journal）
4. Du, Y., Herath, S. C. B., Wang, Q. G., Wang, D. A., Asada, H., & Chen, P. C. Y.* Three-Dimensional Characterization of Mechanical Interactions between Endothelial Cells and Extracellular Matrix during Angiogenic Sprouting. Scientific Reports 6, 21362 (2016).
5. Herath, S. C. B., Sharghi-Namini, S., Du, Y.*, Wang, D. A., Ge, R. W., Wang, Q. G., Asada, H., & Chen, P. C. Y.* A Magneto-Microfluidic System for Investigating the Influence of an Externally Induced Force Gradient in a Collagen Type-I ECM on HMVEC Sprouting. SLAS Technology 22, 413-424 (2016). Invited paper.
[Courses]
Electricity Basics; Artificial Intelligence
[Memberships]
Committee member of Chinese Society of Automation; Youth Working Committee of the Chinese Society of Automation; IEEE
Reviewer of International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), IEEE Access
Contact US
HR：+86 2285358228 guoyufei@nankai.edu.cn; International Office:+86 2223505863 mengjin@nankai.edu.cn
Location/Campus Map
38 Tongyan Road, Jinnan District, Tianjin, P.R.China 300350
