About Me

I am currently a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics at the University of Pennsylvania. Additionally, I am a core faculty member in the Center for Precision Engineering for Health within the School of Engineering and Applied Science at Penn.

I obtained my PhD in Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science from Duke University in 2021, under the supervision of Prof. Tony Jun Huang. Prior to joining Penn, I served as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, under the guidance of Prof. Luke P. Lee. My research primarily focuses on Acoustics, Microfluidics, and Biomedical Devices, with a particular interest in applying novel micro/nano technologies in the fields of mechanical engineering and biomedical engineering.

I have authored/co-authored over 40 peer-reviewed articles published in renowned journals such as Nature Materials, Nature Protocols, Nature Communications, Science Advances, Small, and Lab on a Chip, among others. My articles have received more than 2,000 citations as documented by Google Scholar (h-index: 28). And my work has been featured in various popular media outlets, such as Nature Materials, The Science Advisory Board, ‘2022 in science’ by Wikipedia, Phys.org, and MIT Technology Review. I also serve as a reviewer for several esteemed journals, including Lab on a Chip, IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control, Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, Microfluidics and Nanofluidics, and Ultrasonics.

Openings

My group has multiple positions available for Ph.D. students, postdocs, master’s, and undergraduate students for the Fall 2024 and the Spring/Fall 2025. If you are interested in joining my group at the University of Pennsylvania, please send me an email (shujie.yang@seas.upenn.edu) with your CV and transcripts.

Research Interests

• Acoustics
• Microfluidics
• Biomedical Devices

News

• 2024.04 - I accepted an offer to join the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania at the rank of Assistant Professor within the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics.
• 2023.07 - I won the Microgrant Award from Brigham Research Institute, and served as the principal investigator.
• 2023.07 - My article “Acoustic tweezers for high-throughput single-cell analysis” was published in Nature Protocols, and featured as front cover image.
• 2022.05 - I won the Outstanding Dissertation Award at Duke University.
• 2022.03 - My article “Harmonic acoustics for dynamic and selective particle manipulation” was published in Nature Materials.
• 2022.03 - I won the Postdoctoral Professional Development Award at Duke University.