Human Modeling - Young Scientist Award

2026

King-Hay Yang
Young Scientist Award

At our 2016 Human Modeling Symposium - held in Heidelberg Germany - we presented the Young Scientist Award for the first time.

In 2024, the “Young Scientist Award” was renamed to the “King-Hay Yang Young Scientist Award” in memory of Prof. King-Hay Yang, who was a pioneer in the art of modeling and simulation of the human body in impact situations.

Prof. Yang was also an active contributor to carhs.training’s Human Modelling and Simulation in Automotive Engineering event since its inception in 2007.

The symposium’s scientific committee will select the best research work presented by a researcher under 30 years of age. The award will be presented at the end of the closing session.

The winner will receive a certificate signed by the members of the Scientific Committee of the conference.

If you wish to take part in the competition, you must indicate this when submitting a presentation.

King-Hay Yang

King-Hay Yang, was the Albert I. King Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Wayne State University. He was appointed assistant professor in 1988 and later served as director of the WSU Bioengineering Center.

He is recognized worldwide for his work on human models used in conjunction with injury mechanism investigations related to motor vehicle crashes, orthopedic trauma, blast-induced injury and contact sports. A human brain model developed in his lab is on display at the Computer World of Smithsonian Institutes.

He published a book, 18 book chapters and more than 180 peer-reviewed journal papers in his career.

Yang also received numerous awards, including the Volvo Award from the International Society for the Study of Lumbar Spine, the Ralph Isbrandt Automotive Safety Engineering Award from SAE International, and Metro Detroit’s Innovator Award by Crain’s Detroit Business Report.

He was a Fellow of the American Institute for Medicine and Biological Engineering, and of the Society of Automotive Engineers. He earned his bachelor’s in mechanical engineering from National Taiwan University, and his M.S. and Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Wayne State.

Young Scientist Award Winners