2026/09: Prof. Shanshan Yao (PI) and Prof. Shaoyu Ge (Co-PI) have received an OR&I Seed Grant. Congratulations to the team!
2026/09: Prof. Lifeng Wang (PI) and Prof. Shanshan Yao (Co-PI) have received an OR&I Seed Grant. Congratulations!
2026/08: Prof. Shanshan Yao (PI) has received an SBU-BNL Seed Grant in collaboration with Dr. Mengjia Gaowei at Brookhaven National Laboratory. Congratulations!
2026/06: Congratulations to Prof. Shanshan Yao on receiving the Young Academic Inventors Award from the National Academy of Inventors, Stony Brook University Chapter!
2026/07: Yizong Li successfully defended his PhD dissertation. Congratulations!
2026/05: Colin Grant has been selected to join the Explorations in STEM program. Congratulations!
2026/04: Jason Ma has been selected to join the Explorations in STEM program, a 10-week funded summer research program under the mentorship of Dr. Shanshan Yao.
2026/04: Wilson He has been accepted into the SUNY Summer Opportunities for Academic Research (SOAR) program. Congratulations!
2026/04: Max May has been selected to participate in the 2026 URECA Summer Research Program. This award in the amount of $7500 will support 10-weeks of research under the mentorship of Dr. Shanshan Yao. Congratulations!
2026/02: Penghao Dong successfully defended his PhD dissertation. Congratulations!
2026/02: Penghao Dong and Yizong Li received the Richard Shao-Lin Lee Research Excellence Award. Congratulations!
2025/12: Su Li was a Best Poster Award Nominee at the Materials Research Society (MRS) Fall Meeting & Exhibit. Congratulations on this wonderful recognition!
2025/07: Si Chen successfully defended her PhD dissertation. Congratulations!
2025/03: Our lab hosted a lab tour during the Admitted Seawolf Day.
2025/01: Prof. Shanshan Yao received a Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP) award as a Co-PI. The project is led by Drs. Anurag Purwar and William Stewart, with Co-PIs Drs. Nilanjan Chakraborty, Shikui Chen, David Hwang, Kedar Kirane, and Shanshan Yao. Congratulations!
2025/01: Mason Tso (high school student researcher) has been named a Regeneron STS Semifinalist, an honor that recognizes the top 300 research projects in the nation. Congratulations to Mason for his achievements!
2024/12: Penghao Dong was a Best Poster Award Nominee at the Materials Research Society (MRS) Fall Meeting & Exhibit. Congratulations on this wonderful recognition!
2024/10: Prof. Shanshan Yao gave a talk at the Collegiate Science and Technology Entry Program (CSTEP) Match event.
2024/07: Prof. Shanshan Yao received a National Science Foundation (NSF) award as the PI, in collaboration with Co-PI Petar Djuric. Congratulations!
2024/07: Prof. Shanshan Yao received a Materials Research Science and Engineering Centers (MRSEC) seed grant as a Co-PI. The project, “3D Morphologically Complex Functional Nanostructures,” is led by Dr. Karen Chen-Wiegart with Co-PIs Drs. Shanshan Yao, Dennis Lee, Lifeng Wang, Chao Chen, Klaus Mueller, and Aakash Kumar. Congratulations!
2024/05: Jasmine Ives received the Richard S.L. Research Excellence Award for Graduate Student. Congratulations!
2024/04: Prof. Shanshan Yao received the Stony Brook Trustee Award. Congratulations!
2024/04: Our lab hosted a lab tour during the Admitted Seawolf Day.
2024/04: Two undergraduate students, Jonathan Jiang and Quentin Chen, have been selected to participate in the 2024 Explorations in STEM program. This award will support support research activities under the mentorship of Dr. Shanshan Yao. Congratulations!
2024/03: Prof. Shanshan Yao presented at the ASME Nanoengineering Technology Group Lightning Talk Series.
2024/03: Prof. Shanshan Yao gave a seminar in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the City College of New York.
2024/03: Jasmine Ives successfully defended her MS dissertation. Congratulations!
2024/02: Prof. Shanshan Yao served as the interviewer in STEM Simons Program Selection Weekend to help select Simons Scholars.
2023/09: Samved Kattekola served as the group project leader in lab rotations for students in the Women in Science & Engineering Program.
2023/08: Prof. Shanshan Yao received a subcontract from the Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) as the PI at Stony Brook University. Congratulations!
2023/05: Jasmine Ives (undergraduate student) received the Richard S.L. Research Excellence Award for Undergraduates. Congratulations!
2023/05: Michael Ly successfully defended his MS dissertation. Congratulations!
2023/04: Yizong Li successfully defended his MS dissertation. Congratulations!
2023/04: Our lab hosted a lab tour during the CEAS Admitted Students Day.
2023/03: Namrata Singh (undergraduate student) has been selected to participate in the 2023 Explorations in STEM program. This award will support research activities under the mentorship of Dr. Shanshan Yao. Congratulations!
2023/03: Prof. Shanshan Yao served on the faculty panel and gave a talk in the Collegiate Science and Technology Entry Program (CSTEP) research workshop.
2023/02: Nayoung (Sooyeon) Kim successfully defended her dissertation. Congratulations!
2023/01: Prof. Shanshan Yao received the Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF). Congratulations!
2023/01: Penghao Dong, Shangyouqiao Yu, Zimeng Zhang, and co-authors have published a paper entitled “Electromyogram‐Based Lip‐Reading via Unobtrusive Dry Electrodes and Machine Learning Methods” on Small. Congratulations!
2022/12: Si Chen and co-authors have published a paper entitled “Skin-Integrated Stretchable Actuators Toward Skin-Compatible Haptic Feedback And Closed-Loop Human-Machine Interactions” on npj Flexible Electronics. Congratulations!
2022/10: Si Chen and co-authors have published a paper entitled “HapTag: A Compact Actuator For Rendering Push-Button Tactility On Soft Surfaces” in Proceedings of the 35th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST 2022). Congratulations!
2022/10: Prof. Shanshan Yao served as a judge for the IMECE NSF Poster Competition.
2022/09: Prof. Shanshan Yao served as a judge for SBUHacks.
2022/07: Prof. Shanshan Yao and co-authors have published a book chapter entitled “Smart Nanotextiles for Wearable Health Monitoring” in the book “Smart Nanotextiles: Wearable and Technical Applications”.
2022/05: Shah Rifat Alam Bhuiyan (undergraduate student) received the Richard S.L. Research Excellence Award for Undergraduates. Congratulations!
2022/05: Senior design project “Automatic Tensile Stage for Characterization of Stretchable Electronics” advised by Prof. Shanshan Yao won the Outstanding Senior Design Awards (2nd place). Congratulations!
2022/02: Yizong Li and Prof. Yao served as group project leaders in lab rotations for students in the Women in Science & Engineering Program.
2022/02: Yizong Li, Shah Rifat Alam Bhuiyan, and co-authors have published a paper entitled “Printed Strain Sensors for On‐Skin Electronics” on Small Structures. Congratulations!
2021/11: Prof. Shanshan Yao spoke at the “Wonder Women in STEM” event hosted by the Women in Science and Engineering Honors Program.
2021/07: Prof. Shanshan Yao received a National Science Foundation (NSF) award as the PI in collaboration with Co-Pis Dr. Petar Djuric and Dr. Renee Fabus. Congratulations!
2021/06: Prof. Shanshan Yao received the SBU-BNL Seed Grant as the PI in collaboration with Dr. Esther Tsai at the Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL). Congratulations!
2021/04: Two undergraduate students, Shah Rifat Alam Bhuiyan and Jasmine Ives, have been selected to participate in the 2021 URECA Summer Research Program. This award will support 10 weeks of full-time research under the mentorship of Prof. Shanshan. Congratulations!
2020/04: Prof. Shanshan Yao and co-authors have published a paper entitled “Gas-Permeable, Ultrathin, Stretchable Epidermal Electronics With Porous Electrodes” on ACS Nano. Congratulations!