
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 50 peer-reviewed articles published in renowned journals such as Nature Materials, Nature Protocols, Nature Reviews Methods Primers, Nature Communications, and Science Advances, among others. His articles have received more than 3,000 citations as documented by Google Scholar (h-index: 31). And his work has been featured in various media outlets, such as Nature Materials, Nature Reviews Methods Primers, Nature Reviews Bioengineering, The Science Advisory Board, ‘2022 in science’ by Wikipedia, and MIT Technology Review. He also serves as a reviewer for several esteemed journals, including Science Advances, Biosensors and Bioelectronics, Lab on a Chip, IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control, and Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, among others.
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
- 2023.03 ~ 2024.07: Postdoctoral Research Fellow
- Thomas Lord Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Duke University
- 2022.01 ~ 2023.03: Postdoctoral Associate
- 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
- Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
- Tsinghua University, 2015
- M.S. in Integrated Circuit Engineering
- Harbin Institute of Technology, 2011
- B.S. in Mechanical Design Manufacturing and Automation
Representative Publications
- Shujie Yang, Joseph Rufo, Ying Chen, Chuyi Chen, Bruce W. Drinkwater, Luke P. Lee, and Tony Jun Huang, “Acoustic tweezers for advancing precision biology and medicine”, Nature Reviews Methods Primers, 5, 49, 2025.
- Featured in Nature Reviews Methods Primers: “Acoustic tweezers for advancing precision biology and medicine”, Nature Reviews Methods Primers, 5, 50, 2025.
- 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 in Nature Protocols.
- 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
