Jing Tang

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
Carbon Capture, Utilization and Sequestration; Energy Storage and Conversion; 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

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

Biography

Dr. Jing Tang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Michigan. Prior to joining U-M, Jing initially served as a postdoctoral research fellow and subsequently assumed the role of a Physical Science Research Scientist with Professors Yi Cui at Stanford and Jeffrey A. Reimer at UC Berkeley, inventing nature-inspired materials and devices for energy and sustainability in close collaboration with Professor Zhenan Bao at Stanford. Prior to joining the Cui Group and the Reimer Group, Jing performed postdoctoral research jointly advised by Professors Daniel S. Kohane at Harvard and Robert S. Langer at MIT and was working on therapies to treat neurological disorders, from biomaterials to smart drug delivery systems. In her graduate work, supervised by Professors Gengfeng Zheng and Dean Dongyuan Zhao at Fudan University, Jing focused on bioelectronics-enabled artificial retina. Throughout the adventure of this scientific journey, Jing also has benefited greatly from the guidance and mentorship of Professor Bozhi Tian at the University of Chicago. Jing first met Bozhi when she was a graduate student at Fudan University, which is one of the top three universities in China. Jing feels extremely fortunate to have been inspired, trained, and supervised by the wisdom, insights and vision of her exceptional advisors.

Jing’s research has been highlighted by worldwide news media, including Nature Research, Nature News, Science Daily, Scientific American, Discover News, The Economist, MIT Technology Review, EurekAlert!, New Scientist, Stanford News, Berkeley News, DOE Office of Science, UC Newsroom, College of Chemistry - UC Berkeley, VOA, Science Advances, Nature Communications, and The Scientist, while also being recognized with several awards, including the MIT Technology Review 35 Innovators Under 35, the Rising Star in Engineering in Health by Johns Hopkins University and Columbia University and the Rising Star in Chemical Engineering by MIT, the UCLA Future Faculty Scholar, NextProf Nexus Class of 2022, UC Berkeley/University of Michigan/Georgia Institute of Technology, ACS PMSE Future Faculty Honoree, the University of Wisconsin-Madison WiscProf Program, and Baosteel National Grand Prize Award (Ranked #1 Nationally), among other honors. Besides her research interests, Jing has been co-leading translational initiatives and serving as the reviewer and editor on peer-reviewed journals while holding multiple patents relating to fundamental discoveries and materials innovation for energy, sustainability and health.

Selected Honors and Awards

2024 Invited Book Chapters: MIT Innovators 35 Under 35 Women in STEM
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

• 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
• Stanford Women in Science and Engineering (2017–Present)
• 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 - Fudan University Certificate, In person course on scientific writing and publishing (2015)

Selected Special Invitation Conference Lectures

• 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

• 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
• Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) Group, Stanford University (2017-Present)
• 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)

Commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Belonging, & Justice

• Jing is an advocate for diversity, equity, inclusion, belonging & Justice in science, technology and engineering
• Jing joined the Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) Group at Stanford
• The Materials Science and Engineering Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Task Force at Stanford
• Women in Science (WIS) Undergraduate and Graduate Mentoring Program #WomenInSTEM
• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Reading and Discussion at UC Berkeley-Reimer Group Meetings
• American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) WIC #WomenInChemE
• Co-hosted and organized an elementary school STEM outreach program (collaborating with the DOW Chemical company), to inspire a diverse group of young students to consider careers in STEM fields, to encourage them to actively contribute to the scientific and cultural diversity of our community, to foster innovation and equip these young people to build a more sustainable future
• Organized educational programs for diverse high school and middle school students, bringing them in to visit laboratories, to give them a direct experience of work in STEM fields
• Developed opportunities for the mentorship of diverse undergraduate and graduate scholars in racial, socioeconomic, cultural, and gender identity
• Stand with any other mentee or collaborator on the basis of sex, color, religion, race, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or age
• Formally mentored more than ten undergraduates who have minority backgrounds
• Strive to recognize diversity, equity and inclusion through teaching, mentoring and outreach

Professional Service and Synergistic Activities

Reviewer for the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Light Source – SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, the Advanced Light Source (ALS) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

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.

Cui “Galaxy” of Single Atoms

Stars Galaxy in the Beautiful Night Sky

Commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Belonging, & Justice

My "Frozen" Methodology

Stanford Trees

​Commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Belonging, & Justice

My "Frozen" Methodology

Stanford Trees

Commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Belonging, & Justice