Medical Engineering Distinguished Seminar Series, Professor W. Hong Yeo

Dr. Yeo will discuss the fundamental scientific principles behind integrated soft nanomembrane biosensors and bioelectronics, with a focus on their applications in wearable configurations. He will address the limitations of current biomedical systems used for health monitoring. In response to these challenges, Dr. Yeo will discuss a series of innovative solutions. Specifically, he will highlight novel strategies for designing and fabricating advanced systems through materials engineering, printing-based nanomanufacturing, and the integration of hard-soft system packaging technologies. Additionally, Dr. Yeo will provide examples from in vitro and in vivo studies to illustrate the novelty and effectiveness of these soft intelligent bioelectronics. He will emphasize their significant advantages over existing technologies in areas such as real-time continuous health monitoring, portable healthcare solutions, quantitative disease diagnosis, and connected therapeutics facilitated by human-machine interfaces.

Biography: Dr. Yeo holds the titles of G.P. "Bud" Peterson and Valerie H. Peterson Endowed Professor, as well as Harris Saunders Jr. Endowed Professor, in the Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering and the Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech.

Dr. Yeo's research focuses on understanding the fundamentals of soft materials, deformable mechanics, interfacial physics, nanomanufacturing, and the integration of hard and soft materials for the development of biomedical systems.

He earned his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering and genome sciences from the University of Washington in Seattle and subsequently worked as a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. With over 180 peer-reviewed publications, Dr. Yeo has contributed to many prestigious journals, including Nature Materials, Nature Machine Intelligence, Nature Communications, and Science Advances.

Dr. Yeo has received awards, including the Visiting Professorship from the Institute Jean Lamour at the Université de Lorraine in France, the Lucy G. Moses Lectureship Award at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, the NIH Trailblazer Young Investigator Award, the IEEE Outstanding Engineer Award, the Emory School of Medicine Research Award, and so on. https://www.yeolabgatech.com/

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