Principle Investigator
Jun Yao, Ph.D. (CV)
Associate Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Institute for Applied Life Sciences
Biomedical Engineering (Adjunct)
E-mail: juny@umass.edu; Contact: 413-545-3324
Dr. Jun Yao got a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and a M.S. in Physics from Fudan University, a Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Rice University, and a postdoctoral training in Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard University. He is a recipient of a NSF CAREER award (2019), a Sony faculty innovation award (2021), a Barbara H. & Joseph J. Goldstein Outstanding Junior Faculty Award from UMass College of Engineering (2020-21), a NIH Trailblazer R21 award (2022), and a Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship (2022).
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PhD Candidates.
Siqi Wang
B. S., Polymer Science & Engineering, Xiamen University, China
M. S., Materials Science & Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Tong University, China
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Shuai Fu,
B. S., Electrical & Computer Engineering, UMass Amherst
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.Xiaoyu Wang
B. S., Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, China
M. S., Pharmacognosy, China Pharmaceutical University
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Huan Li
B. Eng., Materials Science and Enginnering, Southwest Jiaotong University, China
M. S., Physics, Southern University of Science and Technology, China
Yuhang Song
B. Sc., Nanomaterials and Techonology, Beijing Jiaotong University, China
B. Sc., Nanomaterials and Techonology, University of Waterloo, Canada
M. Sc., Materials Science and Engineering, Soochow University, China
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Undergraduate Students
Peixuan Tao
Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Sanjana Kaza
Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Massachusetts Amherst
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Stephanie He
Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Massachusetts Amherst
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Former Group Members
Hongyan Gao (PhD, 07/2024): Postdoc at Stanford University
Tianda Fu (PhD, 10/2023): Postdoc at the University of Chicago
Xiaomeng Liu (PhD, 11/2023): Postdoc at the University of Texas, Austin
Dr. Bing Yin (Postdoc): Associate Professor, Dalian University of Technology, China.
Siyu (Nicole) Wu (undergrad): PhD Candidate (EE), University of Texas, Austin.
Alexander Smith (MS): Startup