About Woon-Hong Yeo
Dr. Yeo is the Harris Saunders Jr. Endowed Professor in the Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering and Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, and the Director of two centers at Georgia Tech, including NSF Sustainable Development of Medical Devices (NSF SUSMED), Wearable Intelligent Systems and Healthcare Center (WISH Center) and KIAT-Georgia Tech Semiconductor Electronics Center (K-GTSEC). Dr. Yeo’s research focuses on understanding the fundamentals of soft materials, deformable mechanics, interfacial physics, manufacturing, and hard-soft material integration for developing biomedical systems. Dr. Yeo received his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering at the University of Washington, Seattle. Afterward, he was a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Yeo has published over 170 peer-reviewed articles, including many in top-quality journals, including Nature Materials, Nature Machine Intelligence, Nature Communications, and Science Advances. In addition, Dr. Yeo is an IEEE Senior Member and a recipient of a number of awards, including multiple NIH R01 Awards, NIH Trailblazer Young Investigator Award, IEEE Outstanding Engineer Award, Emory School of Medicine Research Award, Imlay Innovation Award, Lucy G. Moses Lectureship Award, Sensors Young Investigator Award, American Heart Association Innovative Project Award, and Outstanding Yonsei Scholar Award. Dr. Yeo founded two startup companies, including Huxley Medical, Inc. and WisMedical, Inc.
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