Short Biography
Jing Rao, Professor at Beihang University (BUAA), and Humboldt Research Fellowship holder. She got her PhD from Nanyang Technological University (NTU, Singapore). She previously served as an Assistant Professor at the University of New South Wales (UNSW, Australia), specializing in ultrasonic non-destructive testing and structural health monitoring. She has led over 30 research projects supported by various funding bodies, including the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Beijing Natural Science Foundation, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Germany), and the University of New South Wales (Australia). She currently serves as an associate editor for Measurement, Ultrasonic Imaging, and the IEEE Open Journal of Signal Processing.
Research Area
Ultrasonic Testing
AI-based Defect Detection
Health Monitoring of New Energy Structures
Flexible Sensing
Courses
Signal Analysis and Processing
Non-Destructive Testing
Intelligent Sensing and Control
Papers & Books
Rao J, Wang J, Kollmannsberger S, et al. Point cloud-based elastic reverse time migration for ultrasonic imaging of components with vertical surfaces[J]. Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, 2022, 163: 108144.
Rao J, Ratassepp M, Fan Z. Guided wave tomography based on full waveform inversion[J]. IEEE Transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control, 2016, 63(5): 737-745.
Rao J, Pan X, Yuan K, et al. Defect localization using flexible omni-directional interdigital ultrasonic transducers[J]. IEEE Sensors Journal, 2025.
Rao J, Saini A, Yang J, et al. Ultrasonic imaging of irregularly shaped notches based on elastic reverse time migration[J]. NDT & E International, 2019, 107: 102135.
Rao J, Yang F, Mo H, et al. Quantitative reconstruction of defects in multi-layered bonded composites using fully convolutional network-based ultrasonic inversion[J]. Journal of Sound and Vibration, 2023, 542: 117418.
