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
Fax: (865)974-5274

The ivy in the above picture inspired our discovery that ivy secretes nanoparticles for surface climbing, which was covered by

  • Science Magazine on Editors' Choice columns: inching up the wall.
  • Nature Materials on Research Highlights: climbing secrets.
  • Nature Nanotechnology on Research Highlights: Top down bottom up: Ivy league.
  • New Scientist magazine. Ivy uses nanoparticles to cling to walls. Issue 2657, p. 17, May 21, 2008.
  • Chemical and Engineering News: the Secret Of Ivy's Sticking Power.
  • Listed as one of the 8 most important Nano & NIL News globally for the week of May 30, 2008 by NIL.
  • and over eighty media.


    Education
    • D.Sc. in Systems Science and Mathematics, 2000, Washington University in St. Louis, USA.
    • Ph.D. in Industrial Automation, 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.

    Honors and Awards
    • National Academies Keck Futures Initiative Attendee supported by Keck Futures Initiative. Irvine, CA, USA, November 12-15, 2008.
    • By-invitation-only: DoD Chemical and Biological Defense Program Workshop supported by DoD. The goals are to identity emerging areas of basic research for the Department of Defense’s Chemical and Biological Defense Program (CBDP) and to contribute to the development of a strategy enabling support of revolutionary sciences by the CBDP’s basic research program. Atlanta, GA, USA, August 7-8, 2008.
    • By-invitation-only: NSF/CRA/CCC Roadmapping Workshop for Manufacturing and Automation supported by CCC. Our accepted proposal: Challenges in Robotics toward Cyber-enabled Multi-scale Multi-paradigm Life Science Automation. Washington DC, USA, June 17, 2008.
    • 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.

    Editorships

    Memberships
    • Member. AAAS, 2008.
    • Senior Member. IEEE, 2006.
    • Fellow. AANM, 2006.

    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.

    • Department of Mechanical, Aerospace and Biomedical Engineering • University of Tennessee • Knoxville • Tennessee 37996-2030