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Principal Investigator
Tao Zhou, Ph.D.
Wormley Family Early Career Professor
The Pennsylvania State University
Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Center for Neural Engineering
Huck Institutes of The Life Sciences
Materials Research Institute
Education and Experience
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Postdoc Associate, Mechanical Engineering
Harvard University
Postdoc Fellow, Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Harvard University
Ph.D., Chemical Physics
Tsinghua University
M.S., Chemistry
Tsinghua University
B.S., Chemistry
Computer Science
Dr. Zhou is an assistant professor at Penn State University in the Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics, Biomedical Engineering. He is also a core faculty member of the Center for Neural Engineering (CNE) and affiliated with Huck Institutes of The Life Sciences and Materials Research Institute. Dr. Zhou received his B.S. from Tsinghua University with a major in Chemistry and a minor in Computer Science, followed by M.S. studies at Tsinghua University. He received his Ph.D. in Chemical Physics (2019) from Harvard University, where he worked on mesh electronics for brain-machine interface in the laboratory of Prof. Charles Lieber. He then conducted postdoc research at MIT in the laboratory of Prof. Xuanhe Zhao, where he worked on conducting polymer hydrogels and addictive manufacturing. His work has been published in top-tie peer-reviewed journals Science, PNAS, Nature Materials, Nature Methods, Nature Nanotechnology, Nano Letters, Advanced Materials, Angewandte Chemie, etc. He is a recipient of numerous awards, including Distinguished Graduates of Beijing (2013), National Scholarship for Graduate Students (2013), Harvard CBI Simmons Awards (2015), MRS Best Oral Presentation Award (2020), and he has been named a semi-finalist in 2022 TR35 Global List. Dr. Zhou is also a recipient of Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award (2024) and NSF CAREER Award (2025). He has been invited to serve as conference session chair, reviewer for numerous leading scientific journals and fellowships. He also served on the editorial board of International Journal of Extreme Manufacturing, Nano Research Energy. His group work at the intersection of neuroengineering, electronics, materials science, and bioengineering, with an overall goal of studying/manipulating the nervous systems and improving human health.
Graduate Students
Marzia Momin
M.S. in Engineering at the Nano-scale, The Pennsylvania State University
B.Sc. in Biomedical Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET)
Salahuddin Ahmed
M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV)
B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET)
Hyunjin Lee
M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)
B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Hanyang University
Jiashu Ren
M.S. in Biomedical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)
B.S. in Computer Engineering, Xian Jiaotong University
Undergraduate Students
Basma AlMahmood
Physics major, Nanotechnology option with a math minor
Penn State University
Matthew Francis
Biological Science
Penn State University
William Ernst
Biomedical Engineering
Penn State University
Willow Pursel
Biobehavioral Health
Penn State University
Li-Pang Huang
Neuroscience
Penn State University
Veronika Medvedeva
Biomedical Engineering
Penn State University
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