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 of the Center for Precision Engineering for Health and a member of the Bioengineering Graduate Group within the School of Engineering and Applied Science at Penn.

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: 29). 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 Science Advances, Lab on a Chip, IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control, Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, Microfluidics and Nanofluidics, and Ultrasonics.

I obtained my PhD in Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science from Duke University in 2021. Prior to joining Penn, I served as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School. 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.

Openings

My group has multiple positions available for Ph.D. students, postdocs, master’s, and undergraduate students for the Fall 2025 and Spring/Fall 2026. 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

• 2025.01 – Welcome Wenyi Huang, a PhD student from the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics at Penn, to the Yang Lab!
• 2024.10 – Welcome Zach Margaris, an M.S. student from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Penn, to the Yang Lab!
• 2024.10 – Welcome Eddie Wang, an M.S. student from the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics at Penn, to the Yang Lab!
• 2024.09 – Welcome Dehang Zhu, an M.S. student from the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Penn, to the Yang Lab!
• 2024.08 – Dr. Yang joined the University of Pennsylvania as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics.
• 2023.07 - Dr. Yang won the Microgrant Award from Brigham Research Institute, and served as the principal investigator.
• 2023.07 - Dr. Yang’s article “Acoustic tweezers for high-throughput single-cell analysis” was published in Nature Protocols, and featured as front cover image.
• 2022.03 - Dr. Yang’s article “Harmonic acoustics for dynamic and selective particle manipulation” was published in Nature Materials.