工作经历：
• 2020/10-至今 助理教授，研究员
北京大学应用物理与技术研究中心
北京大学力学与工程科学系
• 2017/07-2020/10 博士后，墨尔本大学机械工程系
（主要合作者：Richard D. Sandberg教授）
教育背景：
• 2011/09-2017/07 博士 北京大学 流体力学（导师：陈十一院士，杨越教授）
• 2007/09-2011/07 学士 北京大学 物理学
研究方向：
湍流、边界层转捩、叶轮机械流动数值模拟、机器学习方法在流体力学中的应用等。
主要获奖及荣誉：
• 2021 第六届青年人才托举工程， 中国力学学会
• 2018 优秀博士学位论文， 中国力学学会
• 2017 优秀博士学位论文， 北京大学
主要论文列表：
1. Y. Zhao* and R. D. Sandberg, Bypass transition in boundary layers subject to strong pressure gradient and curvature effects, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 888, A4, 2020
2. Y. Zhao*, H. D. Akolekar, J. Weatheritt, V. Michelassi, and R. D. Sandberg, RANS turbulence model development using CFD-driven machine learning, Journal of Computational Physics, 411, 109413, 2020
3. Y. Zhao* and R. D. Sandberg, Using a new entropy loss analysis to assess the accuracy of RANS predictions of an high-pressure turbine vane, Journal of Turbomachinery, 142, 081008, 2020
4. J. Weatheritt, Y. Zhao, R. D. Sandberg*, S. Mizukami, and K. Tanimoto, Data-driven scalar-flux model development with application to jet in cross flow, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 147, 118931, 2020
5. R. Pichler, Y. Zhao, R. D. Sandberg*, V. Michelassi, R. Pacciani, M. Marconcini, and A. Arnone, Large-eddy simulation and RANS analysis of the end-wall flow in a linear low-pressure turbine cascade cascade, part I: flow and secondary vorticity fields under varying inlet condition, Journal of Turbomachinery, 141, 121005, 2019
6. Y. Zhao, S. Xiong, Y. Yang*, and S. Chen, Sinuous distortion of vortex surfaces in the lateral growth of turbulent spots, Physical Review Fluids, 3, 074701, 2018
7. Y. Zhao, Y. Yang*, and S. Chen, Vortex reconnection in the late transition in channel flow, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 802, R4, 2016
8. Y. Zhao, Y. Yang*, and S. Chen, Evolution of material surfaces in the temporal transition in channel flow, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 793, 840-876, 2016
9. Y. Zhao, Z. Xia*, Y. Shi, Z. Xiao, and S. Chen, Constrained large-eddy simulation of laminar-turbulent transition in channel flow, Physics of Fluids, 26, 095103, 2014
