Dr. Yanshan LOU is currently a full professor at the School of Mechanical Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China. He received his PhD from KAIST in 2012. He then worked in Australia and TU Dortmund (as Alexander von Humboldt scholar) before joining Xi’an Jiaotong University in 2018. He received the O.C. Zienkiewic Award in 2019 and the Internaitonal Journal of Plasticity Young Researcher Award in 2020. His anisotropic yield function and ductile fracture criteria was implemented into Ansys LS-DYNA as *MAT_263 or *MAT_Lou-Yoon_Anisotropic_Plasticity. His research includes anisotropic/asymmetric yielding behaviors, large-strain hardening characteristics, ductile fracture, strain rate hardening, thermal softening, artificial neural networks (ANNs), lightweight design, crashing and impact analysis.