Tony Jun Huang is the William Bevan Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science at

Duke University Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco and electric power industrialist James ...

. Huang is an expert in the fields of acoustofluidics,

optofluidics Optofluidics is a research and technology area that combines the advantages of fluidics (in particular microfluidics) and optics. Applications of the technology include displays, biosensors, lab-on-chip devices, lenses, and molecular imaging tools ...

, and micro/nano systems for biomedical diagnostics and therapeutics. He is widely recognized for his breakthroughs in developing acoustic tweezer technologies to manipulate nanoparticles (such as exosomes), cells and

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s in complex biofluids and applying acoustic tweezer technologies to various fields in biology and medicine. Prior to joining Duke, Huang was the Huck Distinguished Chair in

Bioengineering Biological engineering or bioengineering is the application of principles of biology and the tools of engineering to create usable, tangible, economically-viable products. Biological engineering employs knowledge and expertise from a number o ...

Science and Mechanics at

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. He received his Ph.D. degree in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from the

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, and earned undergraduate and master's degrees at Xi'an Jiaotong University. Huang has authored/co-authored over 270 peer-reviewed journal publications in these fields. His journal articles have been cited more than 27000 times, as documented at Google Scholar (h-index: 87). He also has 26 issued or pending US/international patents. Prof. Huang was elected a fellow (member) of the National Academy of Inventors (USA) and the European Academy of Sciences and Arts. He was also a fellow of the following six professional societies: the

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(AAAS), the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), the

American Society of Mechanical Engineers The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) is an American professional association that, in its own words, "promotes the art, science, and practice of multidisciplinary engineering and allied sciences around the globe" via "continuing ...

(ASME), the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the Institute of Physics (UK), and the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK). Huang's research has received the 2010

National Institutes of Health The National Institutes of Health, commonly referred to as NIH (with each letter pronounced individually), is the primary agency of the United States government responsible for biomedical and public health research. It was founded in the late ...

(NIH) Director's New Innovator Award, a 2011 Penn State Engineering Alumni Society Outstanding Research Award, 2011&2013&2016 JALA Top Ten Breakthroughs of the Year Award, a 2012 Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award from the Society for Manufacturing Engineering, a 2013 Faculty Scholar Medal from Pennsylvania State University, a 2013

American Asthma Foundation The American Asthma Foundation (AAF) was a non-profit grant program that funds basic research focused on asthma Asthma is a long-term inflammatory disease of the airways of the lungs. It is characterized by variable and recurring symptom ...

(AAF) Scholar Award, the 2014 IEEE Sensors Council Technical Achievement Award from the

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is a 501(c)(3) professional association for electronic engineering and electrical engineering (and associated disciplines) with its corporate office in New York City and its operation ...

(IEEE), the 2017 Analytical Chemistry Young Innovator Award from the

American Chemical Society The American Chemical Society (ACS) is a scientific society based in the United States that supports scientific inquiry in the field of chemistry. Founded in 1876 at New York University, the ACS currently has more than 155,000 members at all d ...

(ACS), the 2019 Van C. Mow Medal from the

(ASME), and the 2019 Technical Achievement Award from the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS).

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