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Mingjun Zhang
E-mail: mjzhang@utk.edu
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Department of Mechanical, Aerospace and Biomedical Engineering
408 Dougherty Engineering Building
1512 Middle Drive
The University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN 37996-2210
Phone: (865)974-7620
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The ivy in the above picture inspired our discovery that ivy secretes nanoparticles for surface climbing, which was reported here.
| Education |
- D.Sc., 2000, Washington University in St. Louis, USA.
- Ph.D., 1996, Zhejiang University, P. R. China.
- MS in BioEngineering, 2007, Stanford University, CA, USA.
- MS in Electrical Engineering, 2007, Stanford University, CA, USA.
- B.Eng in Mechanical Engineering, 1990, Zhejiang University, P. R. China.
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| Honors and Awards |
- Best Automation Paper Award Finalist (with Ruoting Yang, T. J. Tarn). The 2008 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Pasadena, CA, USA, 2008.
- Young Investigator Award Finalist. The Second Annual Conference of the American Academy of Nanomedicine, Washington DC, USA, 2006.
- Innovation Merit Award. Life Sciences & Chemical Analysis Division, Agilent Technologies, 2005.
- Boeing Distinguished Speaker. The University of Missouri--Rolla, 2004.
- Early Career Award (Government/Industry). IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, 2003.
- Zhu Kezhen Scholarship. Zhejiang University, 1996.
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| Memberships |
- Member. AAAS, 2008.
- Senior Member. IEEE, 2006.
- Fellow. AANM, 2006.
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| Full-time Industrial Experience |
- Research and Development (2001-2007). Bio-chip fabrication, lab-in-a-chip molecular diagnostics and bio-instrumentation. Life Science and Chemical Analysis Division, Agilent Technologies, California, USA.
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