YUNSHAN WANG portrait
  • Adjunct Assistant Professor, Elect & Computer Engineering
  • Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering
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Education

  • B.S. , Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Peking University, China
  • Ph.D., Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Notre Dame. Project: Novel Optical Biosensors: Fluorescence Amplification and Molecular Trapping Enhancement at Nanoscale

Research Summary

Her current research interests involve investigating new materials and devices for biomedical applications. One of the projects involves developing real-time neurotransmitter sensors for basic studies of neurodevelopmental disorders. Her other research areas include plasmonic enhanced photo-catalytic material for environmental pollutants removal and microfluidic devices for online monitoring of the manufacturing of therapeutic biological particles.

Biography

Yunshan Wang joined the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Utah as a tenure-tracked assistant Professor on July 1st 2018. Prior to the current appointment, she was a postdoctoral fellow in the MRSEC center at the University of Utah (Nov 2014-Aug 2017).  She received her doctoral degree in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering from the University of Notre Dame, advised by Prof. Hsueh-Chia Chang, in January of 2015.

Her current research interests involve investigating new materials and devices for biomedical applications. One of the projects involves developing real-time neurotransmitter sensors for basic studies of neurodevelopmental disorders. Her other research areas include plasmonic enhanced photo-catalytic material for environmental pollutants removal and microfluidic devices for online monitoring of the manufacturing of therapeutic biological particles. During her postdoc, she studied new UV plasmonic materials and nanostructures and the interaction of biomolecules with plasmonic structures.  During her PhD studies at the University of Notre Dame, she developed several biosensors that implemented plasmonic effects to improve the detection limit as well as electro-kinetics at the nanoscale to reduce assay time.

She is the author/co-author of 20 journal papers, a US patent, one book chapter, and presented her work in numerous conferences. She is active in professional societies such as AIChE, SPIE and SWE. She served as President for SPIE student chapter at University of Notre Dame in 2013. She is also passionate about teaching and mentoring graduate/undergraduate students and community outreach programs.