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Principal Investigator
Jing Tang
Email: [email protected]
Phone: (734) 936-2775
Office: 3458 G.G. Brown Laboratory
Assistant Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering 
College of Engineering
University of Michigan
​Research Interests
Energy Storage and Conversion; Carbon Capture, Utilization and Sequestration;  Cryochemistry; Thermal Sciences; Natural Wood Cellulose; Atomic Engineering; Materials Synthesis, Manufacturing and Characterization; Solid-State Chemistry; Biomass; Biomaterials; Bioelectronics​.

Academic Appointments

​University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan                                                                                                                                               2024-Present
Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering
Visiting Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering                                                                                                        2023     
              

​Professional Education and Training
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Stanford University, Stanford, CA | University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA                                                                                      2023
Research Associate (2023), Postdoc Scholar (2020), Materials Science and Engineering, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, SLAC, LBNL
MIT | Harvard University, Cambridge, MA                                                                                                                                                                  2017
Research Fellow, Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering, Koch Institute, Children’s Hospital Boston
Fudan University, Shanghai, China                                                                                                                                                                                2016
Ph.D. in Chemistry, Summa Cum Laude, Laboratory for Advanced Materials, College of Chemistry and Materials Science  
Monash University, Melbourne, Australia                                                                                                                                                                    2014
Graduate Researcher, Chemical and Biological Engineering

Selected Honors and Awards
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2023 ACS Polymeric Materials: Science and Engineering (PMSE) Future Faculty Honoree
2022 NextProf Nexus Class of 2022, UC Berkeley/University of Michigan/Georgia Institute of Technology

2022 WiscProf Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison
2021 MIT Rising Star in Chemical Engineering Program

2021 Rising Star in Engineering in Health Program by Johns Hopkins University and Columbia University
2020 MIT Technology Review TR35
2020 Selected as one of MATTER’s 12 Favorite articles ​
2020 TR35 Global Semi-Finalist Honoree (MIT Tech. Review TR 100), MIT Technology Review 
2020 UCLA Future Faculty Program
​2019 Young Investigator Award in Northern California Chapter American Association of Physicists​ 
2019 Cui “galaxy” of single atoms was featured as a Happy Holidays highlight on the Molecular Foundry Website at Berkeley Lab
2018 Winner of the 2018 NanoArt Image Contest, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 

​2017 Best Poster Award of Vision Forum
2016 Graduate Travel Award, Invited Speaker Honor at Singapore Challenge, Global Young Scientists Summit (GYSS) @one-north
2016 Extraordinary Graduate Student Honor
2015 Graduate Travel Award at Fudan University, selected to attend MRS Fall Meeting 
2015 Baosteel National Grand Prize Award (Ranked #1 Nationally, 1/479)
2015 Elected as ONLY one of 479 National Outstanding students from all Baosteel’s Prize Scholars to present oral talk of their research
2015 Graduate Travel Award, Invited Speaker Honor at Universitas 21 (U21) Graduate Research Conference, Universitas 21
2015 Best Teaching Assistant Award 
2014 Academic Rising Star Honor
2014 Graduate Travel Award, Invited Speaker Honor at Universitas 21 (U21) Graduate Research Conference in New Zealand (Top 4)            
2014 First Place, Presentation Competition of Unilever-Royal Society of Chemistry 
2014 Dow Sustainability Innovation Student Challenge Award (SISCA)
2014 Top Outstanding Student Honor
2014 Guang Hua Outstanding Student Award 
2014 National Outstanding Student Scholarship 
2013 BASF Excellent Prize, BASF Corporation 
2013 Luk Chung Lam Award 
2012-2016 Fudan University Graduate Fellowship 
2013 Outstanding Interdisciplinary Graduate Scholarship 
2011 Guang Hua Outstanding Student Award 
2009-2012 Outstanding Student Scholarship
2008-2012 Excellent Student Honoree, Four Times​​

Selected Certifications
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• ​CIRTL@ Stanford Teaching Certificate Program, Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning, 2022
• The Course Design Institute (CDI)|Center for Teaching and Learning|Stanford, 2022
• Postdoc Pedagogy Journal Club|Office of Postdoc Affairs|Stanford, 2022
• I have benefited greatly from the mentoring of Prof. Yi Cui and Prof. Jeff Reimer at UC Berkeley, not only in my scientific work but as a           teacher and mentor in my own right. (2017 - Present) 
• Stanford Pedagogical Training: Stanford Scientific Teaching Summer Institute (2019)
   In person course on developing teaching strategies for assessment, constructing modules for active learning, and                                               understanding how inclusion/equity/diversity affects student learning.
• Stanford Science and Art of Grant Writing Symposium, Grant Writing Academy (2019)
• DAAD Proposal Writing Training Certificate (2016)
• Nature Master Classes Training - F​udan University Certificate, In person course on scientific writing and publishing (2015)​​​

​Selected Special Invitation Conference Lectures​
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• Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability Greenhouse Gas Removal Workshop (Host: Inaugural Faculty Director of Sustainability Accelerator     Profs. Yi Cui and Doerr School of Sustainability Dean Arun Majumdar), San Francisco, CA, (2023, June)
• ACS Polymeric Materials: Science and Engineering (PMSE) Future Faculty and Early Investigator Awardees Symposium, (2023)
• School of Engineering, NextProf Nexus Class of 2022, UC Berkeley/University of Michigan/Georgia Institute of Technology
• College of Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison (2022)
• Rising Stars in Chemical Engineering Program at MIT (2021)
• Rising Stars in Engineering in Health by Johns Hopkins University and Columbia University (2021)
• Broadcast iCANX Lecture (2021)
• Microsystems & Nanoengineering-Nature Research journal (2021)
• ​EmTech, MIT Technology Review (2020)​
• TEDxBallston (2020)
• Institute for Translational Brain Research, Fudan University (2020)
• Global Scientific and Technological Innovation Center, Zhejiang University (2020)
• Northern California Chapter of the AAPM-Young Investigator Symposium, University of California, Berkeley (2019)
• Brain and Electrochemistry Symposium in Atlanta, The Electrochemical Society (2019)​
• Singapore Challenge, Global Young Scientists Summit (GYSS) @one-north (2016)
• Elected as ONLY one of 479 Outstanding students Honor from all Baosteel’s Prize Scholars to present oral talk of their research (2015)
• Universitas 21 (U21) Graduate Research Conference, Universitas 21 (2015)
• Fudan University Annual Scholarship Awards Ceremony (2015)
• Unilever-RSC, Royal Society of Chemistry (2014)​
• Dow Chemical Company (2014)
​• Global Universitas 21 (U21) Graduate Conference in New Zealand, Universitas 21 (2014)

​Selected Community Service and Leadership​
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• Associate Editor for Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology (Impact Factor: 6.064)  (2022-Present)
• Session Chair for Robotics, Prosthetics, and Interventional Devices session, BMES, 2022
• Session Chair for Neuromuscular and Brain Biomechanics, BMES, 2022​​
• Editorial Board Members, Review Editor of Biosensors and Biomolecular Electronics as Review Editor for Frontiers in                       Bioengineering and Biotechnology (2021-Present)​
• Panelist, Global Broadcast iCANX Lecture, Global Online Science Talk​ (2021-Present)
• Topic Editor, Co-Editors with Prof. Brian Timko at Tufts University, and Prof. Shelley Fried at Harvard, Frontiers in                                                  Neuroprosthetics and Frontiers in Neurorobotics, Invited Special Issue "Artificial Retina-Next generation of            
   optoelectronic toolkits for sub-retinal prosthetic devices" (2020-Present)

• Session Chair with Prof. Bozhi Tian at the University of Chicago and Prof. Brian Timko at Tufts University, SB05-Light-Matter                               Interactions at the Interface with Living Cells, Tissues, and Organisms, MRS Fall Meeting & Exhibit, Boston (2019) ​
• Seminar Committee, Stanford Neurosciences Institute (2019-Present)​
• Safety Officer and Purchasing Officer​, Yi Cui Group, Stanford University (2019-Present)
• Session Chair with Prof. Yu Zhang at Harvard, BM05.06: Sensors for Monitoring Tissue Models, Materials Research Society Fall                         Meeting, Boston (2018)
• Co-Founder and Coordinator, Boston Health Sciences and Technology (2016-2017)
• Chair, Dow Sustainability Innovation Student Team (2014)
• Co-President, The Royal Society of Chemistry-Fudan University Students Association (2012-2015)

​Professional Service and Synergistic Activities
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Reviewer for the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Light Source – SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, the Advanced Light Source (ALS) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
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Independent journal and conference abstract reviewer for Nature Communications, Science Advances, Matter, Journal of the American Chemical Society, JACS Au, Angewandte Chemie, Nano Letters, Biomedical Engineering Society | BMES, ACS Nano, Advanced Materials, Advanced Energy Materials, Advanced Functional Materials, Chemistry of Materials, Advanced Healthcare Materials, Small, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, Biosensors and Bioelectronics, ACS Sensors, Nanoscale, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, B, C, Scientific Reports, Analyst, RSC Advances, The Journal of The Electrochemical Society, Analytical Chemistry, Journal of Colloid and Interface, MRS Advances, ACS Omega, ACS Applied Nano Materials, Frontiers Bioengineering.​

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Cui “Galaxy” of Single Atoms
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Stars Galaxy in the Beautiful Night Sky
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My "Frozen" Methodology


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Stanford Trees


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​   Jing Tang
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Email: [email protected]; [email protected]

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