Dr. Cunjiang Yu, Ph.D., Founder Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Departments of Materials Science and Engineering, of Mechanical Science and Engineering, and of Bioengineering (By Courtesy)
Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
Materials Research Laboratory
Holonyak Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Email: cunjiang@illinois.edu
Office: MRL 212; Beckman 4043
Lab: DCL, MRL, Beckman Institute
Education
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL (2010 – 2013)
Post-doc, Materials Science and Engineering
Advisor: Prof. John A. Rogers (now at Northwestern U.)
Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ (2007 – 2010)
Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering
Advisor: Prof. Hanqing Jiang
Southeast University, Nanjing, China (2004 – 2007)
M.S., Electronic Science and Engineering (Major: Microelectronics and Solid State Electronics)
Southeast University, Nanjing, China (2000 – 2004)
B.S., Mechanical Engineering
Selected Awards & Honors
American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) Fellow, 2026
IEEE Nanotechnology Council Technical Achievement Award, 2026
ASME Materials Division Centennial Mid-Career Award, 2026
Med-X Young Investigator, 2025
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, Extreme Mechanics Letters
Associate Editor, Science Advances
Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology
Associate Editor, IEEE Nanotechnology Magazine
Editorial Board Member: Scientific Reports; Journal of Semiconductors; Journal of Composites Science
Associate Editor, Bioactive Materials (2024-2025)
Founding Editor, Soft Science (2021-2024)
