Yu Research Group
Cunjiang Yu, Ph.D
Founder Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering
Department of Bioengineering
Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
Materials Research Laboratory
Nick Holonyak Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Contact Information
Email: cunjiang@illinois.edu
Office: MRL 212; Beckman 2215
Lab Location: DCL, MRL, Beckman Institute
Education
- Post-doc, Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Nov. 2010 – Oct. 2013
Advisor: Prof. John A. Rogers - Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Arizona State University, Aug. 2007 – Nov. 2010
Advisor: Prof. Hanqing Jiang - M.S., Electrical Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, China, Sept. 2004 – Jun. 2007
- B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, China, Sept. 2000 – Jul. 2004
Selected Awards & Honors
- IEEE Nanotechnology Council Distinguished Lecturer, 2024
- ASME Fellow, 2023
- ASME Chao and Trigger Young Manufacturing Engineer Award, 2023
- CAB Mid-Career Investigator Award, 2023
- ASME Thomas J. R. Hughes Young Investigator Award, 2023
- IAAM Fellow, 2022
- Society of Engineering Science (SES) Young Investigator Medal Award, 2021
- NIH (NIBIB) Trailblazer Award, 2020
- SPIE DCS Rising Researcher, 2020
- Early Career Scholar in Materials Science, Journal of Materials Science, 2019
- Emerging Leader of Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, 2019
- SME Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award, 2019
- 3M Non-Tenured Faculty Award, 2018
- Office of Naval Research (ONR) Young Investigator Award, 2018
- Awardee of MIT Technology Review 35 Innovators Under 35 China (TR35 China) 2017
- Doctoral New Investigator, American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund, 2016
- National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award, 2016.
- Paul Holloway Young Investigator Award, American Vacuum Society, 2015.
- Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Students Studying Abroad, 2011.
Editorial Service
- Editor, Soft Science
- Associate Editor, Bioactive Materials
- Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology
- Young Star Editor, Nano Research
- Editorial Board Member: Scientific Reports; Journal of Semiconductors; Journal of Composites Science
- Guest Associate Editor, Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology
- Guest Associate Editor, Frontiers in Materials