Hello! 

I'm Yu. I'm a materials scientist interested in leveraging fundamental principles of polymer chemistry and physics to design bio-interfacing electronic materials and devices for healthcare applications.

Currently, I'm a Postdoctoral Scholar working with Prof. Bradley Olsen in the Chemical Engineering department at MIT, where I'm applying custom-built characterization tools and rational molecular designs to uncover the fundamental physics of polymer networks. In September 2022, I obtained my Ph.D. in Chemistry at Stanford University, working with Prof. Zhenan Bao in the Chemical Engineering department. My dissertation research focused on designing semiconducting polymers and organic field-effect transistors for skin-inspired electronics. My dissertation research has received recognition from the 2023 IUPAC-Solvay International Award for Young Chemists, and I was selected as one of the Highly Cited Researchers by Clarivate Analytics in 2024. In June 2017, I graduated from Nankai University with a B.S. in Chemistry. I completed my B.S. thesis as a visiting undergraduate researcher for seven months at MIT, working with Prof. Niels Holten-Andersen. 

I'm a trainee at the NSF Center for the Chemistry of Molecularly Optimized Networks (MONET). In MONET, I'm leading a center-wide project of building database and informatic tools on CRIPT platform to advance molecular understanding of polymer networks and new materials discovery.