Woon Hong Yeo

Dr. Yeo is a Woodruff Faculty Fellow, Associate Professor in the Mechanical Engineering 

and Biomedical Engineering, and the Director of the IEN Center for Wearable Intelligent 

Systems and Healthcare at Georgia Institute of Technology. His research focuses on the 

areas of nano-microengineering, soft materials, molecular interactions, and biosystems, 

with an emphasis on nanomembrane bioelectronics. Dr. Yeo received his Ph.D. in 

mechanical engineering at the University of Washington, Seattle. Afterward, he was a 

postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Yeo 

has published over 140 peer-reviewed articles, including many in top-quality journals, 

including Nature Materials, Nature Machine Intelligence, Nature Communications, and 

Science Advances. In addition, Dr. Yeo is an IEEE Senior Member and a recipient of a 

number of awards, including multiple NIH R01 Awards, NIH Trailblazer Young 

Investigator Award, IEEE Outstanding Engineer Award, Emory School of Medicine 

Research Award, Imlay Innovation Award, Lucy G. Moses Lectureship Award, Sensors 

Young Investigator Award, American Heart Association Innovative Project Award, and 

Outstanding Yonsei Scholar Award.