PhD & Postdoc Openings
Yu
research group in the Departments of Mechanical Engineering, Electrical
Engineering, Materials Science and Biomedical Engineering at University of
Houston (Houston, Texas, USA) currently has 1 PhD position for the 2019 Spring
semester and 1 postdoc position available immediately. The group is specialized
in flexible and stretchable electronics, bioelectronics and functional materials
and structures. For more information, please check out the group website: http://www.me.uh.edu/faculty/yu
Requirements:
For
PhD applicants, TOEFL (⩾79)
or IELTS (⩾ 6.5), and GRE. A master degree with
demonstrated research accomplishment is expected.
The
research projects are highly interdisciplinary. Candidates with prior educational
training and research experience in at least one of the following areas will be
considered as priority.
1)
Background
in materials and chemistry
Organic electronics; semiconductors; inorganic electronics;
Polymers synthesis
2)
Background
in Electronics and Electronic materials
microelectronic, optoelectronics, physics
3)
Background
in Biomedical
tissue engineering, electrophysiology, Biomedical
electronics; implantable devices
4)
Background
in mechanical Engienering
Robotics, soft robotics: experiment and
modeling
5)
Background
in solid mechanics and engineering mechanics
Solid mechanics of thin films and soft matters:
analytical and FEM simulations
If
admitted, candidates will sit in PhD programs in Mechanical Engineering,
Electrical Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, or Biomedical
Engineering, depending on their education background.
For
postdoc applicants, demonstrated
research accomplishment in at least one of the abovementioned areas are
required.
PhD Application Deadline: Our official PhD application deadline for the
2019 Spring is Oct. 15, 2018.
If
you are interested, please contact: cyu15@uh.edu, with your CV, copies
of all the transcripts, representative publications, and contact information of
3 references.
Other Positions: Visiting student/scholars
with similar background as abovementioned are welcome to contact Dr. Yu
directly.
About the Group:
PI: Cunjiang Yu, Ph.D.
Bill D. Cook Assistant Professor
Joined UH in 10/2013
Selected Recent Awards & Honors
- 3M Non-Tenured Faculty Award, 2018
- Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award, 2018
- Awardee of MIT Technology Review 35 Innovators Under 35
China (TR35 China) 2017
- Junior Faculty Research Excellence Award, Cullen
College of Engineering, UH, 2017
- Bill D. Cook Faculty Scholarship, UH, 2016
- Doctoral New Investigator, American Chemical Society
Petroleum Research Fund, 2016
- Award for Excellence in Research, Scholarship or
Creative Activity, UH, 2016
- NSF CAREER Award, 2016.
- Paul Holloway Young Investigator Award, American Vacuum
Society, 2015.
- New Faculty Research Award, UH, 2014.
- Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Students Studying
Abroad, 2011.
Some
recent work from the group:
1. 1.
Kyoseung
Sim, Zhoulyu Rao, Dong Yang, Yanbin Li and Cunjiang Yu*, Curvy Surface
Conformal Ultra-Thin Transfer Printed Si Optoelectronic Penetrating Microprobe
Arrays, NPJ Flexible
Electronics, 2, 2, 2018
2. 2. Chengjun
Wang, Kyoseung Sim, Yuhang Li, Li, Jin Chen, Weiqiu Chen, Jizhou Song,
Rafael Verduzco, and Cunjiang Yu*, Soft Ultra-Thin Electronics Innervated
Adaptive Fully Soft Robots, Advanced
Materials,
30, 1706695, 2018. (Front Cover)
3. 3.
Haejin
Kim, Kyoseung Sim, Anish Thukral, and Cunjiang Yu*, Rubbery Electronics and
Sensors from Intrinsically Stretchable Elastomeric Composites of Semiconductors
and Conductors, Science
Advances, 3, e701114, 2017.
4. 4. Yang
Gao†, Ying Zhang†, Xu Wang†, Kyoseung Sim†, Jingshen Liu, Xue Feng, Ji Chen,
Hangxun Xu*, and Cunjiang Yu*, Moisture Triggered Physically Transient
Electronics, Science Advances, 3, e1701222, 2017.
About University of
Houston: Public urban
university; enrollment 45000, 36000 Undergraduates, 9000 graduate students;
Engineering ranked 69# (US News); Tie 1 research university.