Jun Yao | Electrical and Computer Engineering

Assistant Professor

BME Adjunct

Office: Life Science Laboratories S419

Mailing Address:
S419 Life Science Laboratories
University of Massachusetts
240 Thatcher Road
Amherst, MA 01003-9364

juny@umass.edu

(413) 545-3324

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Education

Ph.D. Applied Physics, Rice University, 2012

M.S. Physics, Fudan University, 2006

B.S. Electrical Engineering, Fudan University, 2003

Research

Nanoelectronic devices and sensors
Bioelectronic interfaces and wearable devices
'Green' electronics made from biomaterials

Research Area:

Nanoelectronics

Publications

Tianda Fu, Xiaomeng Liu, Shuai Fu, Trevor Woodard, Hongyan Gao, Derek R. Lovley, Jun Yao. “Self-sustained Green Neuromorphic Interfaces”, Nature Commun. 12, 3351 (2021).
Derek R. Lovley, Jun Yao. “Intrinsically Conductive Microbial Nanowires for ‘Green’ Electronics with Novel Functions“, Trends Biotechnol. 39, 940-952 (2021).
Xiaomeng Liu, Tianda Fu, Joy Ward, Hongyan Gao, Bing Yin, Trevor Woodard, Dereak R. Lovley, Jun Yao. "Multifunctional Protein-Nanowire Humidity Sensors for Green Wearable Electronics", Adv. Electron. Mater. 6, 2000721 (2020).
Alexander Smith, Xiaomeng Liu, Trevor Woodard, Todd Emrick, Juan Jimenez, Derek R, Lovley, Jun Yao. "Bioelectronic Protein Nanowire Sensors for Ammonia Detection", Nano Research 13, 1479-1484 (2020).
Xiaomeng Liu, Hongyan Gao, Joy Ward, Xiaorong Liu, Bing Lin, Tianda Fu, Jianhan Chen, Derek R. Lovley, Jun Yao. "Power Generation from Ambient Humidity Using Protein Nanowires", Nature 578, 550-554 (2020).
Tianda Fu, Xiaomeng Liu, Hongyan Gao, Joy Ward, Xiaorong Liu, Bing Yin, Zhongrui Wang, Ye Zhuo, David Walker, J. Joshua Yang, Jianhan Chen, Derek R. Lovley, Jun Yao. "Bioinspired Bio-Voltage Memristors", Nature Commun. 11, 1881 (2020).
Hongyan Gao, Bing Yin, Siyu Wu, Xiaomeng Liu, Tianda Fu, Cheng Zhang, Jian Liu, Jun Yao. "Deterministic Assembly of Three-Dimensional Suspended Nano-Wire Structures", Nano Lett. 19, 5647-5652 (2019).
Bing Yin, Xiaomeng Liu, Hongyan Gao, Tianda Fu, Jun Yao. “Bioinspired and Bristled Microparticles for Ultrasensitive Pressure and Strain Sensors“, Nature Commun. 9, 5161 (2018).
Jun Yao, Hao Yan, Shamik Das, James Klemic, James Ellenbogen, and Charles M. Lieber. "Nanowire nanocomputer as a finite-state machine", Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 111, 1259-1264 (2014).
Jun Yao, Hao Yan, and Charles M. Lieber. "A nanoscale combing technique for the large-scale assembly of highly aligned nanowires", Nature Nanotechnol. 8, 329-335 (2013).

Honors

NIH (NIBIB) Trailblazer R21 Award (2022)
Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship (2022)
Barbara H. & Joseph J. Goldstein Outstanding Junior Faculty Award (2021)
Sony Innovation Faculty Award (2021)
UMass Armstrong Fund for Science Award (2020)
UMass Manning/IALS Innovation Award (2019)
NSF CAREER Award (2019)

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