Dr. Kang Xiao is a professor at Institute of Advanced Structure Technology, Beijing Institute of technology. His research mainly focuses on Vibration and Shock mitigation, Lightweight and multifunctional structures design, AI aided structure optimizations and fluid-structure interaction theories. 

Dr. Kang Xiao obtained his Bachelor degree at Harbin Institute of Technology, and Master degree at Tsinghua University, PhD at Texas A&M University. He worked at Western Digital in San Jose, California, USA for about two and half years for developing the mechanical platform for the ultrahigh capacity enterprise hard disk drives. Then he came back to China and join Institute of Advanced Structure Technology, Beijing Institute of Technology. Dr. Kang Xiao is recognized as the national overseas high-level talent young scholar and enrolled into the Young elite scientists sponsorship program of China. He has been selected into the young scholar program of National Natural Science Foundation of China and National Key Research and Development Program of China etc.. He also serves as reviewers for some top journals such as Physics of fluids, Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, Tribology International etc.

Dr. Kang Xiao has special interests in vibration and Shock mitigation, lightweight and multifunctional structures design, AI aided structure optimizations and fluid-structure interaction theories.

[1] H.J. Ma, X. Kang*, S.Y. Duan, Y. Li*, Efficient structural optimization under transient impact loads using multilayer perceptron and genetic algorithms.. International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics, 2025,168:104950.

[2] K Zhang, JY Ji, X Kang*, Xiaogang Guo*, Electrothermally actuated network metamaterials with reconfigurable bending deformation modes. Extreme Mechanics Letters, 2024, 102241.

[3] YX Wang, X Kang*, LN Feng, Y Li. Design and characterization of a pyroshock reduction structure based on local resonance mechanisms. Aerospace Science and Technology, 2024, 151: 109262.

[4] YF Lyu, XY Zhao, ZQ Gong, X Kang, W Yao. Multi-fidelity prediction of fluid flow based on transfer learning using Fourier neural operator. Physics of Fluids, 2023, 35: 077118.

[5] BZ Li, ZX Huang, YS Lin, X Kang*, Ying Li. Mechanical properties of novel folded kirigami metamaterial under quasi-static compression. Smart Material and Structure, 2022, Struct. 31.075005

[6] JY Wei, XF Cao, X Kang*, Y Li. Customized behavioral characteristics of localized hierarchical 2D chiral metastructures. Materials Today Communications, 2022, 104251

[7] X Kang, A Palazzolo, W Zhong, Auxiliary Bearing Dampers for Magnetic Bearing Supported Rotors-Squeeze Film Dampers. Tribology International, 2020, 106181

[8] X Kang, A Palazzolo, Simulation, Test and Mitigation of 1/2X Forward Whirl Following Rotor Drop onto Auxiliary Bearings, Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbine and Power, 2019, 041020-1

[9] X Kang, A Palazzolo, "Dynamic and Thermal Analysis When Rotor Drop onto the Sleeve Type Auxiliary Bearing," Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power, 2018, 022501-15

National Overseas High-Level Talent Young Scholar

Young Elite Scientists Sponsorship Program of China

High-Five Recognition at Western Digital Inc, USA