Organizing Committee Member
Zhiyu Hu
Professor
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
China
Biography
Dr. Zhiyu (Jerry) Hu (Ph.D. MBA), National Chair Professor of China, is also holding Zhi Yuan Chair professorship at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and serving as the director of National Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on Micro-/Nano-Fabrication. He is also the founder and the director of the Institute of NanoMicroEnergy. Dr. Hu is an adjunct professor appointment at University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA plus other honorary positions in several universities and institutes. He was a research staff member at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) of the U.S. Department of Energy. His research interests are in NEMS- and MEMS-based sensors, nanoscale energy conversion, implantable BioMEMS devices and nanocatalytic materials. Dr. Hu is the author of more than eighty publications in peer reviewed journals; several dozens invited talks; eighty plus conference presentations and ten published and pending patents. He is the recipient of many awards that includes Discover Magazine Award, National and Regional Federal Laboratory Consortium awards and several awards from ORNL including The Inventor of the Year Award (2000). Dr. Hu’s work generated many press accolades and mentions around the world. He is an active member of APS, ASME, ACS, ECS, MRS, IECS and the National Physics Honor Society Sigma Pi Sigma. He is an executive member of Nano Engineering Council of ASME and a committee member of the Sensor Division of ECS.
Research Area
NEMS- and MEMS-based sensors, Nanoscale energy conversion, implantable BioMEMS devices and nanocatalysis materials