Dr. Shujie Yang

Email: shujie.yang@seas.upenn.edu

Office: RM 1011, One uCity Square

Dr. Shujie Yang is currently a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics at the University of Pennsylvania. Additionally, he is a core faculty member of the Center for Precision Engineering for Health and a member of the Bioengineering Graduate Group within the School of Engineering and Applied Science at Penn.

Dr. Yang has authored/co-authored over 40 peer-reviewed articles published in renowned journals such as Nature Materials, Nature Protocols, Nature Communications, Science Advances, Small, and Lab on a Chip, among others. His articles have received more than 2,400 citations as documented by Google Scholar (h-index: 29). And his work has been featured in various popular media outlets, such as Nature Materials, The Science Advisory Board, ‘2022 in science’ by Wikipedia, Phys.org, and MIT Technology Review. He also serves as a reviewer for several esteemed journals, including Science Advances, Lab on a Chip, IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control, Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, Microfluidics and Nanofluidics, and Ultrasonics.

Dr. Yang obtained his PhD in Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science from Duke University in 2021. Prior to joining Penn, he served as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School. His research primarily focuses on Acoustics, Microfluidics, and Biomedical Devices, with a particular interest in applying novel micro/nano technologies for applications in engineering and medicine.

Work Experience

  • Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania
    • 2024.08 ~ present: Assistant Professor
  • Center for Precision Engineering for Health (CPE4H), University of Pennsylvania
    • 2024.08 ~ present: Core faculty member
  • Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School
  • Thomas Lord Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Duke University
    • 2022.01 ~ 2023.03: Postdoctoral Associate (Advisor: Prof. Tony Jun Huang and Prof. Luke P. Lee)
    • 2016.08 ~ 2021.12: Research Assistant
  • Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics, Pennsylvania State University
    • 2016.01 ~ 2016.07: Research Assistant
  • Department of Microelectronics and Nanoelectronics, Tsinghua University
    • 2012.09 ~ 2015.12: Research Assistant

Education

  • Duke University, 2021
  • Tsinghua University, 2015
  • Harbin Institute of Technology, 2011
    • B.S. in Mechanical Design Manufacturing and Automation

Representative Publications

  1. Shujie Yang, Joseph Rufo, Ruoyu Zhong, Joseph Rich, Zeyu Wang, Luke P. Lee, and Tony Jun Huang, “Acoustic tweezers for high-throughput single-cell analysis”, Nature Protocols, 18, 2441–2458, 2023. (Featured as front cover image)
  2. Shujie Yang, Zhenhua Tian, Zeyu Wang, Joseph Rufo, Peng Li, John Mai, Jianping Xia, Hunter Bachman, Po-Hsun Huang, Mengxi Wu, Chuyi Chen, Luke P. Lee, and Tony Jun Huang, “Harmonic acoustics for dynamic and selective particle manipulation”, Nature Materials, 21, 540–546, 2022.
    • “Highly Cited Paper” by Web of Science—top 1% of highest cited papers in Materials Science.
    • Featured in Nature Materials: “Handy nanoquakes”, Nature Materials, 21, 499–501 (2022).

Teaching

  • MEAM 5180: Biomedical Microsystems
    • Graduate course, Fall 2025
  • MEAM 6900: Biomedical Microsystems
    • Graduate course, Spring 2025