Dr. Xin Ye is a biomechanical engineer whose specialties include injury biomechanics, accident reconstruction, and sports injury evaluation. Dr. Ye has been working as an engineering consultant since 2019. He has extensive experience using biomechanical analysis to analyze the biomechanics of human response, and to opine on the injury mechanism and consistency of accidents and activities. He has testified as an expert witness in numerous depositions and trials.
Dr. Ye's previous academic experience includes computational modeling and accident reconstruction using human body models, as well as analysis of lumbar spine and lower extremity injuries sustained in motor vehicle crashes. He has also been involved in developing a computational football helmet model for head concussion research, sponsored by the NFL. He was also involved in a NASA project that investigated the lumbar spine response of astronauts in spaceflight landing conditions. Additionally, his past academic research includes the investigation of knee airbag effectiveness on lower extremity injuries using a combination of sled testing, computational modeling, and real-world data analysis. He has published many peer-reviewed journal papers and has also presented at numerous national and international conferences.
Areas of Expertise
Publications
- Occupant kinematic and injury responses in zero-gravity seat under low-, medium-, and high-speed rear impacts with different seat belt systems, Applied Sciences, 15(12), 6388, January 2025
- Biofidelity investigation and chest structure enhancement of Q3 dummy restrained in impact shield child restraint system, Annals of Biomedical Engineering, 1-10, January 2025
- The effectiveness of Q6 and PIPER 6-year-old models on quantification of the change of child sitting posture with AEB and its impact on child’s injures in frontal crash, Traffic Injury Prevention, 25(6), 825–831, January 2024
- Lumbar spine response of computational finite element models in multidirectional spaceflight landing conditions, Journal of Biomechanical Engineering, 142(5), 051007, January 2020
- Development and multi-scale validation of a finite element football helmet model, Annals of Biomedical Engineering, 48(1), 258-270, January 2020
- Sarcopenia and osteosarcopenia in seriously injured motor vehicle crash occupants, Traffic Injury Prevention, 20(sup2), S195-S197, January 2019
- Numerical investigation of driver lower extremity injuries in finite element frontal crash reconstruction, Traffic Injury Prevention, 19(sup1), S21-S28, January 2018
- Computational modeling and analysis of thoracolumbar spine fractures in frontal crash reconstruction, Traffic Injury Prevention, S1-S8, January 2018
- Modeling human volunteers in multidirectional, uni-axial sled tests using a finite element human body model, Annals of Biomedical Engineering, 1-25, January 2018
- Active muscle response contributes to increased injury risk of lower extremity in occupant-knee airbag interaction, Traffic Injury Prevention, 19(sup1), S76-S82, January 2018
See CV for additional publications.