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2024/07: Prof. Shanshan Yao received a National Science Foundation (NSF) award as the principal investigator. Congratulations!

2024/07: Prof. Shanshan Yao received the Materials Research Science and Engineering Centers (MRSEC) seed grant as the co-principal investigator. The project “3D Morphologically Complex Functional Nanostructures” is led by Karen Chen-Wiegart with Co-PIs Drs. Shanshan Yao, Dennis Lee, Lifeng Wang, Chao Chen, Klaus Mueller, Aakash Kumar. Congratulations!

2024/05: Jasmine Ives won 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 in the amount of $5,000 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 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 Lab (BNL) as the principal investigator. Congratulations!

2023/05: Jasmine Ives (undergraduate student) won the Richard S.L. Research Excellence Award for Undergraduates. Congratulations!

2023/05:  Michael Ly successfully defended his dissertation. Congratulations!

2023/04:  Yizong Li successfully defended his 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 in the amount of $25,00 plus housing support 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.

2022/10: Prof. Shanshan Yao, Penghao Dong, Jasmine Ives, and co-authors have published a paper entitled “Ultrasoft Porous 3D Conductive Dry Electrodes for Electrophysiological Sensing and Myoelectric Control” on Advanced Materials Technologies. Congratulations!

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”. Congratulations!

2022/05: Shah Rifat Alam Bhuiyan (undergraduate student) has won 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 principal investigator. Congratulations!

2021/06: Prof. Shanshan Yao received the SBU-BNL seed grant as the principal investigator. 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 in the amount of $4,000 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!