About Dr. Tony Huang

About Dr. Tony Huang

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Dr. Tony Jun Huang
James Henderson Assistant Professor

Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics
Pennsylvania State University
212 Earth-Engineering Sciences Building
University Park, PA 16802-6812

Tel: 814-863-4209
Fax: 814-865-9974

Email: junhuang@psu.edu

Research Interests

MEMS, NEMS, Bionanotechnology, Nanomaterials, BioMEMS/BioNEMS, Microfluidics, Optofluidics, Lab on a Chip, Plasmonics, Micro/Nano Acoustics, and Molecular Motors.

Education

1999-2005 University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering
Major Field: MEMS/Nanotechnology
Advisor: Prof. Chih-Ming Ho

1996-1999 Xi’an Jiao Tong University, Xi’an, P. R. China

M.S. in Mechanical Engineering
Major Field: Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer
Advisor: Prof. Wen-Quan Tao

1992-1996 Xi’an Jiao Tong University, Xi’an, P. R. China

B.S. in Mechanical Engineering

Honors and Awards

2006 Rustum and Della Roy Innovation in Materials Research Award, Pennsylvania State University
2005 “One of the five most intriguing articles in the third quarter of 2005”, CAS Science Spotlight
2005 James Henderson Professorship, Pennsylvania State University
2005 Outstanding Ph.D. Award, University of California Los Angeles
2003 Phi Tau Phi Award, Phi Tau Phi Society
2001 John H. Bent Memorial Scholarship, Saint Paul Foundation
1999 Excellent Thesis Award, Xi’an Jiao Tong University
1998 Siemens Scholarship, Siemens Fund in China
1995-1998 Outstanding Student Award, Xi’an Jiao Tong University

Patents

“Electrochemical Detection of Mismatch in Nucleic Acids (EDEMNA)”
(U.S. Patent 7,291,457, November 6, 2007)
“Microfluidic Drifting” - Implementing Three-Dimensional Hydrodynamic Focusing with a Single-Layer Planar Microfluidic Device (U.S. Patent Filing, PSU No. 2007-3370)
“Nucleic Acid Sequencing” (U.S. Patent Filing, PSU No. 2008-3439)
“A Method to Implement High Efficient Focusing of Micro/Nano Particles Within a Microfluidic Device Using Surface Acoustic Waves” (U.S. Patent Filing, PSU No. 2008-3510)
“A Method to Implement Wide-Band Collimation of Acoustic Signals by Using a Phononic Crystal Composite” (U.S. Patent Filing, PSU No. 2008-3511)

Professional Memberships

Professional Activities

Member of the ASME Nanotechnology Council, 2008-present
Guest Editor for Journal of the Association for Laboratory Automation, 2009
Organizing Chair for the 2009 ASME Society-Wide Micro/Nano Technology Forum, Lake Buena Vista, Florida, November 13-19, 2009
Co-Track Chair for Micro and Nano Systems at the 2009 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition, Lake Buena Vista, Florida, November 13-19, 2009
Member of the Technical Program Committee for 4th IEEE International Conference on Nano/Micro Engineered and Molecular Systems (NEMS), Shenzhen, China, January 6-9, 2009
Member of the Technical Program Committee for 2nd ASME Integration & Commercialization of Micro & Nanosystems International Conference & Exhibition, Kowloon, Hong Kong, June 3-5, 2008
Session Chair on “Micro and Nano Materials Characterization” for 2nd ASME Integration & Commercialization of Micro & Nanosystems International Conference & Exhibition, Kowloon, Hong Kong, June 3-5, 2008
Organizing Chair for the 2008 ASME Society-Wide Micro/Nano Technology Forum, Boston, MA, October 31-November 6, 2008
Member of the Technical Program Committee for the 2008 IEEE/LEOS New Frontiers in Optical Communications & Optofluidics conference, Acapulco, Mexico, July 21-27, 2008
Member of the Technical Program Committee for the IEEE-NANO 2007 conference, Hong Kong, China, August 2-8, 2007
Tutorial Speaker for the First International ASME Conference on Integration and Commercialization of Micro and Nano-systems, Sanya, Hainan, China, January 10-13, 2007
Session Chair on “Single-Molecule Detection Devices” for the 2007 Biomedical Engineering Society National Meeting, Los Angles, CA, September 27-29, 2007
Session Chair on “Micro and Nano Systems” for the First International ASME Conference on Integration and Commercialization of Micro and Nano-systems, Sanya, Hainan, China, January 10-13, 2007
Session Chair of the First International Conference on Bio-Nano-Information Fusion, Marina Del Rey, CA, July 20-22, 2005

Reviewer for Research Proposals

Review panelist for Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation Program at the National Science Foundation (NSF)
Review panelist for the Integrative, Hybrid & Complex Systems (IHCS) Program at Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems (ECCS), the National Science Foundation (NSF)
Review panelist for the Electronics, Photonics & Device Technologies (EPDT) Program at Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems (ECCS), the National Science Foundation (NSF)
Review panelist for the National Institute of Health (NIH)
Review panelist for the Nanoscale Interdisciplinary Research Teams (NIRT) program at the National Science Foundation (NSF)
Review panelist for the Nanoscale Exploratory Research (NER) program at the National Science Foundation (NSF)
Review panelist for the Separation and Purification Processes Program at Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport (CBET) Systems, the National Science Foundation (NSF)
Communication reviewer for the Netherlands Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter
Communication Reviewer for the American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund
Communication Reviewer for University of Missouri Research Board
Communication Reviewer for Department of Energy (DOE)

Reviewer for Journals