NEWS

2026

Congratulations to Huaiyu, Wenyi, and Alex on being selected as the Overall Winner and recipient of the Grand Prize in the Lab-in-Fab PMUT Application Student Competition! Well deserved! We are very proud of you!
Our research article has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering! Congratulations to the entire team!
Congratulations to Wenyi and Huaiyu on successfully passing their Ph.D. qualifying examinations! This is a significant milestone in their academic journey at Penn. Keep up the great work!
Our lab members, Wenyi Huang, Huaiyu Zuo, and Alex Yang, have been awarded an IEEE UFFC-S Micro Grant! Congratulations!
Our lab member, Eddie Wang, accepted a PhD offer from Johns Hopkins University! Congratulations!
Congratulations to Miti on receiving the Joseph A. Ganster, Jr. and Julia A. Ganster Engineering Fellowship!
Welcome Miti Patel, a PhD student and NSF Fellow from the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics at Penn, to the Yang Lab!
Welcome Jianing Zhang, a visiting undergraduate student from Peking University, to the Yang Lab!
Welcome Shiven Taneja, a PURM Fellow and undergraduate student from the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics at Penn, to the Yang Lab!
Welcome Alex Yang, a PURM Fellow and undergraduate student from the Department of Electrical Engineering at Penn, to the Yang Lab!
Welcome Allen Hong, an undergraduate student from the Department of Bioengineering at Penn, to the Yang Lab!

2025

Congratulations to Huaiyu on receiving the George Barnett Fellowship!
Dr. Yang’s article “Acoustic tweezers for advancing precision biology and medicine” was published in Nature Reviews Methods Primers.
Welcome Huaiyu Zuo, a PhD student from the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics at Penn, to the Yang Lab!
Welcome Haocong Xu, a PURM Fellow and undergraduate student from the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics at Penn, to the Yang Lab!
Welcome Kayla Fox, a PURM Fellow and undergraduate student from the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics at Penn, to the Yang Lab!
Welcome Wenyi Huang, a PhD student from the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics at Penn, to the Yang Lab!

2024

Welcome Zach Margaris, an M.S. student from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Penn, to the Yang Lab!
Welcome Eddie Wang, an M.S. student from the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics at Penn, to the Yang Lab!
Welcome Dehang Zhu, an M.S. student from the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Penn, to the Yang Lab!
Dr. Yang joined the University of Pennsylvania as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics.

2023

Dr. Yang won the Microgrant Award from Brigham Research Institute, and served as the principal investigator.
Dr. Yang’s article “Acoustic tweezers for high-throughput single-cell analysis” was published in Nature Protocols, and featured as front cover image.

2022

Dr. Yang’s article “Harmonic acoustics for dynamic and selective particle manipulation” was published in Nature Materials.