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Ming Dao is the director and principal investigator at MIT’s Nanomechanics Laboratory and a senior research scientist in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. He teaches courses such as 3.35 (Fracture Fatigue) and 3.22 (Structure Mechanics Materials), focusing on the relationship between microstructure and mechanical properties. His research interests encompass cell mechanics in the context of human diseases, nanomechanics of advanced materials, and the application of artificial intelligence and machine learning in engineering and biomedicine. Dao has published more than 170 papers in peer-reviewed journals including Science, Nature Materials, Science Advances, Nature Communications, PNAS, ACS Nano, Biomaterials, and Small. His work has received numerous accolades, such as being a Highly Ranked Scholar by ScholarGPS, a Top Cited Scholar by Scilit, and being listed among the top 2% of scientists by Stanford-Elsevier. In 2012, he was named Singapore Research Chair/Professor of Bioengineering for Infectious Disease at MIT and elected as a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) in 2016. He has held visiting professorships at the National Institute of Blood Transfusion in France, Xi’an Jiaotong University in China, and Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, among others.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology • Cambridge, MA
Director and principal investigator of the Nanomechanics Laboratory.