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Assistant Professor, Willens Scholar, and HMRI Investigator @Caltech ; Associate Editor of Science Advances

Pasadena, CA
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Officially tenured today! Effective July 1st, I will become a full professor at Caltech. Many thanks to my wonderful past and current team members, mentors, family, friends, and colleagues for their incredible support over the past 7 years. Cheers with flowers from the backyard!
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Excited to receive NSF Career Award! Thanks to my wonderful group, mentors, and colleagues for the support! We will develop wearable biosensors for long COVID monitoring! @NSF @Caltech
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Our newest work All-printed Soft Human-Machine Interface for Robotic Physicochemical Sensing was published today in @SciRobotics and featured on the Journal Cover. @Caltech @CaltechEAS Congrats to @yuyoufree !
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Honored to receive a 3M Non-Tenured Faculty Award!
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4 years
Very honored to join @ScienceAdvances Editorial Board as an Associate Editor. Many thanks to everyone who supported me!
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2 years
Our recent paper was featured on the Cover of @natBME Nov issue. @Caltech @MinqiangW @yiranyang10 @jihong_min0602
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Nature Biomedical Engineering
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The November cover illustrates a wearable electrochemical biosensor for the continuous detection of trace levels of metabolites and nutrients in sweat. [Paper]
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Honored to receive a Materials Today Rising Star Award ⁦⁦ @MaterialsToday ⁩ in the MRS!
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Our lab’s 6-year anniversary is coming!
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Very honored to be selected as a 2021 Sloan Fellow. @Caltech Many thanks to my group members, collaborators, and supporters! #SloanFellow
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Sloan Foundation
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We are pleased to announce the 2021 cohort of the Sloan Research Fellows. These extraordinary early career researchers represent some of the most exciting young minds working today! We are so thrilled to be able to support your work! #sloanfellow
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New in ⁦⁦⁦ @natBME ⁩, we report a wearable biosensor for wireless monitoring of systemic inflammation. We identified elevated sweat CRP in patients with heart failure, COPD, and infection. Cheers to ⁦⁦ @JiaobingT ⁩! ⁦⁦⁦ @Caltech
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New in ⁦⁦ @NatureElectron ⁩, we report a battery-free wearable sensor that is powered by an efficient perovskite solar cell under ambient light and capable of multimodal biomarker monitoring. Cheers to ⁦ @jihong_min0602 ⁩! ⁦⁦ @Caltech
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New in @ScienceAdvances , we report a wearable smart bandage capable of multiplexed wound biomarker analysis and combination therapy through controlled anti-inflammatory antimicrobial treatment and electrically stimulated tissue regeneration. @Caltech
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Congratulations to Yiran (Isabella) @yiranyang10 @Caltech @CaltechEAS for passing her PhD defense! Our lab’s first PhD graduate! 🍾🎉🎊
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Our newest work on biofuel-powered electronic skin was published today in Science Robotics. A battery-free biofuel-powered e-skin can perform multiplexed wearable biosensing and Bluetooth communication for medical and robotic applications. @SciRobotics
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Received our R01 NOA! Thank you for the support @nih_nhlbi !!
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Our new paper on Self-Powered Battery-Free Wearable Sweat Sensor was published today. @ScienceAdvances @Caltech Cheers to our students Yu Song and @jihong_min0602 ! Wireless battery-free wearable sweat sensor powered by human motion
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Very honored to be selected as a Winner of Falling Walls 2023 in Engineering and Technology! @Falling_Walls #FallingWalls @Caltech @CaltechEAS See the full list: …
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New in @ScienceAdvances , we report a 3D-printed multimodal microfluidic wearable biosensor capable of energy-sustainable physiochemical sensing toward machine-learning-powered healthcare. @Caltech @CaltechEAS Congrats to @GenerS_17 , Roland, and the team!
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So honored to be on the list! Thanks to my wonderful team members! ⁦ @Caltech ⁩ 2021 Young Investigators - Office of Naval Research
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Grateful and honored for the support!
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Caltech
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Congratulations to each of the 14 faculty members recognized with named professorships for early career and tenured faculty, and to the three faculty members who have been recognized with named leadership chairs associated with administrative positions.
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Feel so proud today as a professor! Congratulations, Yiran @yiranyang10 ! @Caltech @CaltechEAS
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A great schematic made by @lemondefr on our smart bandage work @ScienceAdvances @Caltech ! See the full story here:
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A wonderful Gao Lab party to celebrate the success of 2023 and coming holidays! Many thanks for all lab members!
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New in @NatMachIntell , we review the integration of artificial intelligence and electronic skins, especially how data collected from sensors are processed by AI for human-machine interactions and health monitoring purposes. Cheers to @xu_changhao @Caltech
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4 years
We have a few postdoc openings on biosensors and flexible electronics. If you are interested, welcome to send me your application through email. If you are a US permanent resident or a US citizen, our lab also accepts application for the NIH T32 postdoctoral fellowship.
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New in @ScienceAdvances , we report a neuromorphic computing device based on physically defined short-term and long-term synapses and demonstrate its medical diagnosis application without software support. Congrats to Yongsuk and the team! @Caltech
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Honored to be on the list of #HighlyCited2020 ! Thanks to all my collaborators and group members! ⁦⁦ @webofscience
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Our latest Journal Cover in Nature Electronics @NatureElectron ! See our paper: The Editorial Highlight: And New & Views Highlight: @Caltech @CaltechEAS @jihong_min0602
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Many thanks to all the speakers for the wonderful presentations @Pittcon ! It was a remarkable and full house session on wearable and implantable biosensors!
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Very honored to give the Watson Lecture on Dec 13th @Caltech ! You are welcome to join!
@KNI_Caltech
Kavli Nanoscience Institute at Caltech
7 months
Join us at the next @CaltechLive Watson Lecture this Wednesday, 12/6, with Dr. Wei Gao ( @WeiGaoLab ) for his talk on "Wearable Biosensors and the Future of Personalized Medicine". Lecture begins at 7:30p, with pre-show activities @ 6p More Info:
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Please RT. We have a faculty opening at @caltech Medical Engineering! Check out
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Wonderful to visit South Korea again and to deliver a Plenary Lecture at GCIM 2024 in beautiful Jeju island. Truly enjoyed meeting many old and new friends, colleagues and students!
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Caltech News on our recent work of AI-powered multimodal wearable sensor for stress response assessment. ⁦ @Caltech
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1 year
Great to meet many friends at #ICRA2023 . Also enjoyed the nice dinner with @SimoneSchuerle @DrRituRaman !
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Wonderful talk ⁦by ⁦ @ProfZhaoMIT ⁩ at Caltech on the exciting progress in wearable imaging and medical microrobot!
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It was wonderful to visit @ETH_en today. Thanks a lot to @SimoneSchuerle for the kind invitation and hospitality! Also very happy to meet many other friends and colleagues such as Brad Nelson, @PaneSalvador , @DanielAhmedARSL , Hedan Bai, @andreasguentner , et al.
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I am giving a webinar organized by US National Nanotechnology Initiative on June 24th 1-2 pm EDT. Welcome to join.
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Congratulations to Jiaobing @JiaobingT for successfully her PhD dissertation @CaltechEAS @Caltech !! 🎉🍾️🎊
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Congratulations to Jihong @jihong_min0602 for passing his PhD defense! 🎉🎊🍾️ Our lab’s third PhD! @Caltech @CaltechEAS
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Honored to receive 2020 EMBS Early Career Achievement Award!
@IEEEembs
IEEE Engineering Medicine and Biology Society
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Congratulations to all the 2020 EMBS Award Recipients!!! On behalf of @IEEEembs , we would like to thank you for your continued service and support. #EMBS #IAMEMB #EMBC20 @gaowei2009
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Our new article in Adv Mater @AdvSciNews on Flexible Electronics and Devices as Human–Machine Interfaces for Medical Robotics
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Happy to share our latest review article on direct-ink-writing 3D-printed bioelectronics! ⁦ @MaterialsToday ⁩ cheers to our postdocs Roland Tay and ⁦ @Yu_Song17 ⁩!
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A proud day to celebrate our three rising star students @JiaobingT @jihong_min0602 @xu_changhao for receiving their PhD from @Caltech @CaltechEAS ! Also great to have Jensen Huang @nvidia to give the commencement address!
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Our new review article at Biosensors & Bioelectronics with @JWangnano @jihong_min0602 @JSempionatto @HazhirTeym ! Also my 100th paper online!
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What a surprise! Students at @UNAM_Juriquilla @Cfata_Unam gave me an early birthday celebration after my lecture 🎂! Muchas gracias!
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We have a postdoc opening (NIH T32 postdoctoral fellowship; Starting June 2023) at Caltech on wearable sensors. The applicant needs to be a US citizen or permanent resident. Please email the CV to weigao @caltech .edu if you are interested. Retweets are appreciated!
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Jiaobing’s PhD party 🎉🍾 and another year’s Halloween cosplay of Gaos 😆 (which surprised me, again)!
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2 years
Please help RT. Tenure-Track Faculty opening at Caltech Medical Engineering! @Caltech @CaltechEAS . Apply here:
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Happy #InternationalWomensDay ! Proud of our women students and postdocs in the lab (including current and past members missing from the photo)! @Caltech @CaltechEAS
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It was great to visit @hkust to celebrate the 30th anniversary of CBE department and thanks to the wonderful host @HninYinYinNyein , a close friend who collaborated with me on early development of wearable sweat sensors. It is nice to see you have a great start at Hong Kong!
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Congratulations to our postdoc @Yu_Song17 🎉🎊! We are proud of you! @CaltechEAS @Caltech @CityUHongKong
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Excited to share that I will join the Department of Biomedical Engineering @CityUHongKong as a tenure-track #Presidential Assistant Professor in July 2024! 🇭🇰 Sincerely appreciate all the strong support from @WeiGaoLab @Caltech , Alice Zhang @PKU1898 , professors and friends! 🎉
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Thank you very much for the invitation, Xuanhe @ProfZhaoMIT ! It was such a wonderful experience to visit MIT!
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Xuanhe Zhao
2 years
Prof. Wei Gao @WeiGaoLab from @Caltech gave a great talk on Wearable Sweat Sensors at @MITMechE @mit_dmse SMSD seminar series. We could learn some much about our health and diseases from our sweat. Curious? Read their papers.
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So proud of our two graduates! Congratulations to Jiaobing @JiaobingT and Jihong @jihong_min0602 for receiving the MRS Graduate Student Awards!! #F23MRS @CaltechEAS @Caltech
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Farewell party for @JSempionatto ! All the best at @RiceUniversity ! We will miss you here!
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3 years
This is what happened in our group zoom meeting today…😅 🎃 🎃
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4 years
Our invited review article for the 2020 Chemical Society Review Emerging Investigator Issue. @RoySocChem Medical micro/nanorobots in complex media - now published in Chemical Society Reviews
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Congratulations to Changhao @xu_changhao for successfully passing his PhD defense! @Caltech 🎉🎊🍾️ Our lab’s fourth PhD - with all defended in the past year!
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The Gao Lab @Caltech will have three talks at #F23MRS ! I will give an invited talk on Wed 3:30 pm while our graduate students Jihong @jihong_min0602 and Jiaobing @JiaobingT will speak on Tuesday 11:15 am and Thursday 3:15 pm. Both Jihong and Jiaobing are also MRS GSA finalists.
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Welcome to join!
@KNI_Caltech
Kavli Nanoscience Institute at Caltech
3 years
Next week (Tues Jan 26) we'll host a special KNI seminar with Wei Gao @gaowei2009 , where he'll discuss his lab's latest work on biosensors for non-invasive analysis, including multiplexed diagnosis of COVID-19. Register for this free, public event here:
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1 year
Visiting South Korea for @Biosensors2023 . Giving my talk on Wed 1:30 pm on wearable biosensors (Keynote 1E); our graduate student @JiaobingT will present our recent work on wearable sensors for automatic systemic inflammation monitoring on Wed 10:45 am (O2D.02). Welcome to join!
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Landed at SF for #S23MRS ! Will introduce some of our newest works in wearable biosensors on Tuesday 4:15 pm. Welcome to join and look forward to meeting old and new friends!
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Giving two invited talks this Wednesday @Materials_MRS and our lab members @xu_changhao @DanielMukasa1 will give oral talks on Friday. Welcome to attend and look forward to friends and colleagues in Seattle! #S24MRS
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Our new review on wearable sensors in @Matter_CP @CellPressNews Skin-Interfaced Sensors in Digital Medicine: from Materials to Applications
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Look forward to visiting @UTAustin and meeting friends, colleagues, and students there this Wednesday! Many thanks @nanshulu for the invitation.
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2 years
Congratulations to our postdoc Juliane @JSempionatto @Caltech for receiving the prestigious award - the 2022 IUPAC-Solvay International Award for Young Chemists @IUPAC ! @JWangnano @XugroupUCSD
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If you are graduate students and postdoctoral scholars within 1-2 years of applying for faculty position, welcome to apply the Trailblazers Sympoisum hosted by Caltech Division of Engineering and Applied Science! @Caltech @CaltechEAS Link for application:
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Very inspiring talk by @SMitragotri as part of Medical Engineering Distinguished Seminar Series @Caltech ! Thank you for visiting us!
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7 months
Thank you, Hanie! It was wonderful to visit @NorthwesternU and meet my academic research idols @ShanaOKelley @ProfJohnARogers @CHADNANO along with many students/postdocs!
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Room full of researchers that are enjoying an amazing lecture by @WeiGaoLab at @NorthwesternBME @NUChemistry hosted by @ShanaOKelley @KelleyLabs on scalable and wearable systems for human machine interactions and wearable sensing!
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I am giving a webinar on our wearable biosensors (June 4th, 2 pm EDT) in the coming ASPO Conference Session. Welcome to join! Register here:
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We have a #postdoc opening available (starting early 2021) on #sensors at Caltech Gao Lab (open to US citizen or permanent resident candidates). Welcome to apply!
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Wonderful talk by @JWangnano on the fantastic voyage of micro/nanorobots! #nanotoday2023
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