Faculty Directory

Education

Ph.D.	Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA (2014)
M.S.	Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA (2011)
B.S.	Mechanical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China (2009)

2022 – pres. Associate Professor, UM-SJTU Joint Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

2018 – 2022 Assistant Professor, UM-SJTU Joint Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

2014 – 2018 Postdoc Research Fellow, National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA

Best Paper Award of the 30^th IEEE Semiconductor Thermal Measurement and Management Symposium (2014)
Best Paper Award of the 18^th International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (2013)
Rackham Research Award (2013)
Undergraduate with Honors, Shanghai Municipal Education Commission (2009)

Kejing Ma†, Huyue Chen†, Zhiyuan Wu, Xiangling Hao, Ge Yan, Wenbo Li, Lei Shao*, Guang Meng, and Wenming Zhang*. A wave-confining metasphere beamforming acoustic sensor for superior human-machine voice interaction. Science Advances, eadc9230, 2022.
Jingjie Cheng, Zhaoliang Peng, Penghui Song, Bo Peng, Jason J. Gorman, Justin Kuo, Amit Lal, Wenming Zhang, and Lei Shao*. Anisotropic acoustodynamics in gigahertz piezoelectric ultrasonic transducers. IEEE Electron Device Letters, 43, 1117, 2022.
Qifan Ding, Huyue Chen, Jiahao Wu, Tianxiang Zheng, Wenming Zhang, and Lei Shao*. Molding-free fully-printed flexible tactile sensors with performance-enhancing microstructures. IEEE Sensors Journal, 22, 11552, 2022.
Penghui Song, Lei Shao*, and Wenming Zhang*. Residue-regulating homotopy method for strongly nonlinear oscillators. Nonlinear Dynamics, 109, 1905, 2022.
Shoulu Gong†, Qifan Ding†, Jiahao Wu, Wenbo Li, Xinyu Guo, Wenming Zhang*, and Lei Shao*. Bioinspired multifunctional mechanoreception of soft-rigid hybrid actuator fingers. Advanced Intelligent Systems, 4, 2100242, 2022.
Lei Shao*, Vikrant J. Gokhale, Bo Peng, Penghui Song, Jingjie Cheng, Justin Kuo, Amit Lal, Wenming Zhang, and Jason J. Gorman*. Femtometer-amplitude imaging of coherent super high frequency vibrations in micromechanical resonators. Nature Communications, 13, 694, 2022.

Program Committee member of the IEEE semiconductor thermal measurement and management symposium (2014-present).
Conference session co-chair of the 30^th IEEE semiconductor thermal measurement and management symposium (2014).
Invited Journal Reviewer: Applied Physics Letters, Journal of Applied Physics, Nature Futures, Communications Physics – Nature, Scientific Reports – Nature, IEEE Electron Device Letters, Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, Review of Scientific Instruments, Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, etc.