Principal Investigator
| Shiming Zhang B.Sc., M.Sc. (Jilin); Ph.D. (Montreal); Postdoc (UCLA) |
| Dr. Shiming Zhang is currently an Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE) of the University of Hong Kong (HKU), leading the wearable, intelligent and soft electronics (WISE) research group. Before that, He spent three years at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), as a postdoctoral scholar (group leader on bioelectronics), and obtained his Ph.D. (Best Thesis Award, 1/55) from École Polytechnique, Université de Montréal, Canada, and B.S./M.S. (Top Honor, Outstanding Graduates) from Jilin University, China. He was recognized as a “Rising Star” on bioelectronics by Advanced Science (2022); an “Emerging Investigator” by JMCC (2022); and a featured scholar in the Global Medical Wearable Forum 2020 (San Jose). He was awarded the prestigious title of “Vanier Canada Scholar” (56/year globally in Engineering) by the Canada Government, and The Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Students Abroad. In 2022, he was nominated by HKU for the Croucher Innovation Award. The students, trained in his lab, won the Championship in the HKAES University Pitch Competition 2022; the MRS Best Presentation Award (2021); the IEEE EMB Student Project Award (2021); and the InnoShow Awards (2021 and 2022) from the HKU Innovation Academy. |
Postdoc Research Fellow
Shilei Dai received his Ph.D. degree in materials science and engineering from Tongji University and his B. Eng. degree in polymer science and engineering from Sichuan University. During his Ph.D. study, he worked as a visiting Ph.D. student at the University of Chicago for two years. He is currently a postdoc research fellow (co-supervised by Prof. Zhongrui Wang) in the WISE research group. His research interests include deformable and biocompatible electronics, and bio-inspired in-memory and in-sensor computing devices.
Xuecheng received his Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Science and Technology Beijing and his B. Eng. degree in functional materials from the Beijing University of Chemical Technology. He worked as a visiting Ph.D. student at the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Currently, he is a postdoc research fellow in the WISE research group, focusing on developing soft, tough, multimodal OECT biosensors that can work under extreme conditions.
PhD Students
Jing Bai received his B.Eng. in Software Engineering and B.Mgmt. in Business Administration at Xi’ an Jiaotong University. He was working on industrial projects related to inkjet printing control systems, microcontrollers, and human-machine interfaces. Jing is currently a PhD candidate in WISE lab. He aims to establish a reliable and standardized manufacturing method for soft OECTs with fully printing technologies, and using high-density soft OECT arrays for emerging biosensing and computing applications.
Dingyao Liu received his B.Sc. in Applied Chemistry from Xi’an Jiaotong University and M.Eng. in Polymer Science and Engineering from Sichuan University. He is interested in the design, fabrication, and characterization of soft materials. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the WISE Research Group aiming to developing high-performance and miniaturized soft OECTs for soft computing and wearable bioelectronic applications.
Xinyu Tian received his B.Eng in Control & Measurement Technology and Instrument from Tianjin University and Master in Material Science Engineering from the University of California, San Diego. He is currently a Ph.D. student in the WISE Research Group working on miniaturized OECTs systems for wearable edge computing applications. He is a key contributor to the “PERfECT” system which is the world`s smallest system for wearable OECT characterization.
Binbin Cui received his B.S. in Chemistry from Nankai University. He was a research intern in the Stoddart group (Nobel Laureate) at Northwestern University. He is interested in the chemical and electrochemical functionalization of thin-film electrodes for molecular analysis. He is currently a Ph.D. student in the WISE Research Group working on OECT-based biosensors for healthcare applications.
Yilin Yang received her B.Eng. and M.Eng, both in Biomedical Engineering from Sun Yat-sen University. She is currently a Ph.D. student at WISE Research Group working on brain-machine interfacing with soft and implantable bioelectronic systems.
Yan Wang received her B.Sc. at Nankai University in Chemistry. She was a research assistant at WISE between Sept 2021 and April 2022. She is currently a Ph.D. student at WISE working on the processing of soft conducting polymers for high-performance soft OECTs.
Xinran Zhang received her B.Eng. and M.Eng, both in Biomedical Engineering from Jilin University. She is currently a Ph.D. student at WISE Research Group working on the synthesis and fabrication of biosensing electrodes for wearable molecular detections.
Hao Huang received his B.Eng. in Chemical Engineering from Tianjin University. He is currently M.Eng. student in the same program. He will join WISE as a Ph.D. student in Sept. 2023 to work on HK WISE-Scope for wearable brain-machine interfacing.
Mphil Students
Wei Huang is currently a B.Eng. student at Beihang University, majoring in Computer Science. He will be joining WISE as a MPhil student in Sept. 2023 to work on data processing and control of wearable systems.
Ivo Pang is currently a B.Eng. student at the University of Hong Kong, majoring in Biomedical Engineering. He will be joining WISE as a MPhil student in Sept. 2023 to work on stretchable wearable devices.
WISE Undergraduate Students
| Name | Type | |
|---|---|---|
| Year 4 | Rouxian Li | HKU SIG |
| Year 4 | Ip Long Ching | HKU FYP |
| Year 4 | Chan Kai San Oliver | HKU SIG |
| Year 4 | Wong Yat Hei Ryan | HKU FYP |
| Year 2 | Yazhou Zhao | HKU SIG |
| Year 2 | Chun Kit Lai | HKU SIG |
Master students
| Year | Name |
|---|---|
| 2022 | Zichao Cao |
| 2022 | Linyuan Huang |
| 2022 | Ziyun Liao |
| 2022 | Guangxi Lu |
| 2022 | Zhenqi Liu |
| 2022 | Haoran Wan |
| 2022 | Yixuan Xu |
| 2022 | Kaini Zhang |
| 2022 | Siya Zhang |
WISE Alumni
| Name | Type | |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Yue Zhou | Wise Vistor |
| 2022 | Juntao He | HKU Master |
| 2022 | Fangyuan Kuang | HKU Master |
| 2022 | Kaihua Ni | HKU Master |
| 2022 | Xinyue Peng | HKU Master |
| 2022 | Yixun Cheng | Wise Vistor |