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 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.

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.

Editorships

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

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.

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