Professor Xinge Yu

Professor, City University of Hong Kong

Associate Director, Institute of Digital Medicine

Principal Investigator, Lab of Soft Bio-electronics

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Education and Academic Experience

Professor
(2025 – present)
City University of Hong Kong
Department of Biomedical Engineering

Associate Professor
(2022 – 2025)
City University of Hong Kong
Department of Biomedical Engineering

Assistant Professor
(2018 – 2021)
City University of Hong Kong
Department of Biomedical Engineering

Postdoctoral Fellow
(2016 – 2018)
Northwestern University, US
Center for Bio-Integrated Electronics
Advisor: John A. Rogers

Postdoctoral Fellow
(2015 – 2016)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Advisor: John A. Rogers

PhD, Joint
(2012 – 2015)
Northwestern University, US
Chemistry
Advisor: Tobin J. Marks, Antonio Facchetti

PhD
(2009 – 2015)
University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China
Optical Engineering
Advisor: Junsheng Yu

B. Eng
(2005 – 2009)
University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China
Optical Engineering
Advisor: Junsheng Yu

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Selected Awards

• NSFC – Young Scientists Fund (青A), 2025
• 钟南山青年科技创新奖, 2024
• RGC Research Fellow, 2023
• NSFC – Excellent Young Scientists Fund (Hong Kong and Macao), 2021
• Innovators under 35 China, MIT Technology Review, 2020
• MINE2020 Young Scientists Award, Nature Publishing Group, 2020
• New Innovator in NANOMED, IEEE, 2019
• National Outstanding PhD Thesis Award for Optical Engineering in China, 2017

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Academic Services

• Associate Editor, Science Advances
• Associate Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Open Journal of Nanotechnology
• Associate Editor, Microsystems & NanoEngineering
• Associate Editor, Bio-Design & Manufacturing
• Editorial Board, National Science Review
• Editorial Board, Soft Science
• Editorial Board, Wearable Electronics
• Editorial Board, Sensors International