2004/09-2009/05 Ph.D., Materials Science and Engineering, McMaster University(Canada)

2002/09-2004/07 Master, Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University

1998/09-2002/07 Bachelor, Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University

2013/01-present Lecture, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University

2010/06-2012/12 Lecture, Mechanical Engineering, Tsinghua University

2009/06-2010/01 Postdoctoral Fellow, Canadian Centre for Electron Microscopy/ Materials Science and Engineering, McMaster University (Canada)

1. Metallic Glasses

2. Transition Metal Oxides

2005, Gerard T. SimonAward, fromMicroscopical Society of Canada

1. X. Liu, Y. Shao, G. Pan, K.F. Yao, “Preparation of Fe–Ni–P–B metallic nano-ribbons”, Materials Letters, 93, 103-106 (2013)

2. L. Gunawan, G. Zhen, Y. Shao, S. Lazar, O. Gautreau, C. Harnagea, A. Pignolet, and G.A. Botton, “Structural investigation of interface and defects in expitaxial Bi3.25La0.75Ti3O12 film on SrRuO3/SrTiO3 (111) and (100)”, Journal of Applied Physics, 113, 044102 (2013)

3. P. Gong, K. Yao, X. Wang, Y. Shao, “A new centimeter-sized Ti-based quaternary bulk metallic glass with good mechanical properties”, Advanced Engineering Materials, in press (2013)

4. X. Wang, Y. Shao, K.F. Yao, “Chemical composition dependence of atomic oxygen erosion resistance in Cu-rich bulk metallic glasses”, Chinese Science Bulletin, 57, 4801-4804 (2012)

5. X. Wang, Y. Shao, P. Gong, K.F. Yao, “Effect of thermal cycling on the mechanical properties of Zr41Ti14Cu12.5Ni10Be22.5 alloy”, Science China Physics, Mechanics & Astronomy, 55, 2357-2361(2012)

6. P. Gong, K.F. Yao, Y. Shao, “Effects of Fe addition on glass-forming ability and mechanical properties of Ti–Zr–Be bulk metallic glass”, Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 536, 26-29 (2012)

7. P. Gong, K.F. Yao, Y. Shao, “Lightweight Ti-Zr-Be-Al bulk metallic glasses with improved glass-forming ability and compressive plasticity”, Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids,358, 2620-2625 (2012)

8. P. Gong, K.F. Yao, X. Wang, Y. Shao, “Centimeter-sized Ti-based bulk metallic glass with high specific strength”, Progress in Natural Science: Materials International, 22, 401-406, (2012)

9. P. Donnadieu, Y. Shao, F. De Geuser, G.A. Botton, S. Lazar, M. Cheynet, M. de Boissieu, and A. Deschamps, “Atomic structure of T1 precipitates in Al-Li-Cu alloys revisited using HAADF-STEM and small angle X ray scattering”, ActaMaterialia, 59, 462-472 (2011).

10. Y. Li, S.B. Qiu, Y. Shao, K.F. Yao, “Effects of the cooling rate on the plasticity of Pd40.5Ni40.5P19 bulk metallic glasses”, Chinese Physics Letters, 28, 116104 (2011)

11. S. Lazar, Y. Shao, L. Gunawan, R. Nechache, A. Pignolet, and G.A. Botton, “Imaging, Core-Loss, and Low-Loss Electron-Energy-Loss Spectroscopy Mapping in Aberration-Corrected STEM”, Microscopy and Microanalysis, 16, 416-424 (2010).

12. L. Wang, Y. Sakka, Y. Shao, G.A. Botton, T. Kolodiazhnyi, “Coexistence of A- and B-site vacancy compensation in La-doped Sr1-xBaxTiO3”, Journal of the American Ceramic Society, 93, 2903-2908 (2010)

13. Y. Shao, C. Maunders, D. Rossouw, T. Kolodiazhnyi, and G.A. Botton, “Quantification of the Ti oxidation state in BaTi1-xNbxO3 compounds”, Ultramicroscopy, 110, 1014-1019 (2010)

14. Y. Shao,R.A. Hughes, A. Dabkowski, J.F. Britten, S. Lazar, J.S. Preston, and G.A. Botton, “The role of lattice misfit strains in the deposition of epitaxial (Ba1-ySry)Ti0.5Nb0.5O3 films”, Journal of Crystal Growth, 9, 2753-2758 (2009)

15. Y. Shao,R.A. Hughes, A. Dabkowski, G. Radtke, W.H. Gong, J.S. Preston, and G.A. Botton, “Structural and transport properties of epitaxial niobium-doped BaTiO3 films”, Applied Physics Letters, 93, 192114 (2008)

16. F.L. Tang, X. Zhang, Y. Shao, “Sr ion distribution and local structure in La1-xSrxMnO3”, Journal of Physics-Condensed Matter, 18, 5579-5586 (2006)

17. Y. Shao andX, Zhang,“The pressure dependence of the structure and superconducting transition temperature of MgB2”, Journal of Physics-Condensed Matter, 16,1103-1113 (2004)