IEEE NANOMED 2018 is pleased to announce Prof. Tak Sing Wong of the Pennsylvania State University, Prof. Anderson Ho Cheung Shum of the University of Hong Kong, and Prof. Deok-Ho Kim of the University of Washington as the New Innovators in NANOMED 2018. This award recognizes individuals who have demonstrated exceptional technical advancement and innovation in the field of Nano/Molecular Medicine and Engineering in the early career.
Prof. Tak-Sing Wong is currently an assistant professor of mechanical engineering and biomedical engineering and the Wormley Family Early Career Professor at The Pennsylvania State University. Dr. Wong’s research focuses on surface and interface, micro- and nanomanufacturing, as well as designing multi-functional biologically inspired surfaces with applications in water, energy, and health. Dr. Wong’s research has led to 39 peer-reviewed publications (28 journal papers and 11 conference proceedings publications), including papers in Nature, Nature Materials, Nature Communications, Science Advances, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA. Five of these papers are listed as top 1% highly cited papers according to Clarivate Analytics Web of Science. Dr. Wong currently holds 9 issued United States patents with 12 pending patents. Dr. Wong’s research has been recognized with a R&D 100 Award (2012), the National Science Foundation’s CAREER Award (2014), the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Young Faculty Award (2014), the Outstanding Alumni Award by the Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering at CUHK (2014), an invitation to the National Academy of Engineering Frontiers of Engineering (2014), the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (IEEE) Nanotechnology Council Early Career Award in Nanotechnology (2016), the Distinguished Alumni Award from the Faculty of Engineering at CUHK (2017), and the American Society of Mechanical Engineer (ASME) Sia Nemat-Nasser Early Career Award (2018).
Prof. Anderson Shum received his B.S.E. degree (summa cum laude) in chemical engineering from Princeton University, S.M. and Ph.D. in applied physics from Harvard University. He is currently an associate professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at HKU. His research interests include microfluidics, microscaled fluid flows, emulsion-templated materials and soft matter. He was admitted to the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) as a Fellow (FRSC), nominated by HK for the 2017 APEC Science Prize for Innovation, Research and Education (ASPIRE Prize), and was selected as a recipient of the HKU Outstanding Young Researcher Award 2016-17 and the HKU Research Output Prize 2017 by the University of Hong Kong, as well as the Early Career Award by the Research Grants Council of Hong Kong in 2012. He is currently an editorial board member for Scientific Reports (Nature Publishing Group) and an editorial advisory board member for Biomicrofluidics (American Institute of Physics (AIP)) and Lab-on-a-Chip (RSC). He is also a reviewer for over 80 international journals including Nature Nanotechnology, Nature Communications and PNAS.
Dr. Deok‐Ho Kim is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Bioengineering at the University of Washington. He received his Ph.D. degree in Biomedical Engineering from The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 2010. From March 2000 to June 2005, he worked as a Research Scientist at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH‐Zurich). He has authored or co-authored more than 150 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers, 2 books, 11 book chapters, and has 25 patents issued or pending (5 licensed). His papers have been cited over 6600 times in total (H-index: 40) and have been highlighted in Science Magazine, the JHU Gazette, the UW Today, and many newspapers. Among the awards he has received are the Samsung Humantech Thesis Award (2009), the Harold M. Weintraub Award in Biological Sciences (2010), the American Heart Association National Scientist Development Award (2012), the BMES-CMBE Rising Star Award (2013), and the Young Innovator Award from the Cell and Molecular Bioengineering Journal. (2015). Dr. Kim serves on the editorial boards of numerous journals including Scientific Reports, Theranostics, Advanced Biosystems, Materials Science and Engineering C, Biomedical Microdevices, IEEE Transactions on NanoBioscience, IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology, International Journal of Nanomedicine, and SLAS Technology.