Hu Tao received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering with the Best Dissertation Award from Boston University, in 2010. His research interests have mainly focused on terahertz metamaterials using MEMS technology. After graduation, Dr. Tao joined the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Tufts University as a Postdoctoral Associate and then as a Research Assistant Professor.
He is currently a Professor at Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, CAS and his research interests focus on green nanotechnology, micro/nano- technology enhanced novel electronic and photonic devices for biomedical applications. Dr. Tao has published over 50 papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals including Science (cover), Nature, Nature Photonics (cover), Nature Nanotechnology (cover), Nature Communications, PNAS, Advanced Materials (cover), Small (cover) and Physical Review Letters.
1. Scientific Chinese Person of the Year 2016 by China Association for Science and Technology, 2017
2. Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Students Abroad, the highest honor that can be awarded to a Chinese student studying abroad by Chinese government, 2009.
3. Best Dissertation Award, College of Engineering, Boston University, 2009.
4. CLEO Incubic/Milton Chang Travel Grant, OSA Foundation, 2009.
5. Solid-State Sensor and Actuator Student Travel Award, DARPA/MTO, 2008.
6. International Electron Devices Student Travel Award, IEEE/IEDM, 2008..
？ 1.May 2014 – Present: Prof., Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200050, China
？ 2.January 2012 –April 2014: Research Assistant professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tufts university, Medford, Massachusetts 02155, USA
？ 3.May 2010 –April 2012: Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tufts university, Medford, Massachusetts 02155, USA
？ Ph. D. in Mechanical Engineering, University of Boston, USA, September 2006 - July 2010.
？ M. S. in Physical Electronics, Institute Of Electronics Chinese Academy Of Scences, Beijing, China, September 2003 - July 2006.
？ B. S. in Mechanical Manufacture and Automation, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China, September 1998 - July 2003.
Especially in the new generation of silicon-based advanced electronic materials on the silicon (SOI) field, Wang Xi led the research team in the country is the most leading position, he founded the Shanghai proud of science and technology Co., Ltd. became the United States, Japan and France after the global The fourth most important SOI material research and development center.
[1] Zhitao Zhou, Zhifeng Shi, Xiaoqing Cai, Shaoqing Zhang, Stephanie G Corder, Xinxin Li, Yeshun Zhang, Guozheng Zhang, Liang Chen, Mengkun Liu, David L Kaplan, Fiorenzo G Omenetto, Ying Mao, Zhendong Tao, Hu Tao？, The Use of Functionalized Silk Fibroin Films as a Platform for Optical Diffraction‐Based Sensing Applications, Advanced Materials, 2017, 29, 1605471.
[2] Nan Qin, Shaoqing Zhang, Jianjuan Jiang, Stephanie Gilbert Corder, Zhigang Qian, Zhitao Zhou, Woonsoo Lee, Keyin Liu, Xiaohan Wang, Xinxin Li, Zhifeng Shi, Ying Mao, Hans A Bechtel, Michael C Martin, Xiaoxia Xia, Benedetto Marelli, David L Kaplan, Fiorenzo G Omenetto, Mengkun Liu, Hu Tao？, Nanoscale probing of electron-regulated structural transitions in silk proteins by near-field IR imaging and nano-spectroscopy, Nature Communications, 2016, 7, 13079.
[3] Hu Tao, Benedetto Marelli, Miaomiao Yang, Bo An, M. Serdar Onses, John A. Rogers, David L. Kaplan, Fiorenzo G. Omenetto, “Inkjet printing of regenerated silk fibroin: From printable forms to printable functions”, Advanced Materials, 2015, 27, 4273-4279.
[4] Hu Tao，Hwang Suk-Won，Marelli Benedetto，An Bo，Moreau Jodie E，Yang Miaomiao，Brenckle Mark A，Kim Stanley，Kaplan David L，Rogers John A，Omenetto Fiorenzo G，Silk-based resorbable electronic devices for remotely controlled therapy and in vivo infection abatement.，Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A，2014，111（49）：17385-17389.
[5] Hwang Suk-Won，Hu Tao，Kim Dae-Hyeong，Cheng Huanyu，Song Jun-Kyul，Rill Elliott，Brenckle Mark A.，Panilaitis Bruce，Won Sang Min，Kim Yun-Soung，Song Young Min，Yu Ki Jun，Ameen Abid，Li Rui，Su Yewang，Yang Miaomiao，Kaplan David L，Zakin Mitchell R.，Slepian Marvin J.，Huang Yonggang，Omenetto, Fiorenzo G.，Rogers John A.，A Physically Transient Form of Silicon Electronics，Science，2012，337（6102）：1640-16 44.
[6] Mengkun Liu, Harold Y Hwang, Hu Tao, Andrew C Strikwerda, Kebin Fan, George R Keiser, Aaron J Sternbach, Kevin G West, Salinporn Kittiwatanakul, Jiwei Lu, Stuart A Wolf, Fiorenzo G Omenetto, Xin Zhang, Keith A Nelson, Richard D Averitt, Terahertz-field-induced insulator-to-metal transition in vanadium dioxide metamaterial, Nature, 2012, 487, 345-348.
[7] Hu Tao，Kaplan David L，Omenetto Fiorenzo G，Silk materials—a road to sustainable high technology.，Advanced Materials，2012，24（21）：2 824-2837.
[8] Hu Tao，Brenckle Mark A.，Yang Miaomiao，Zhang Jingdi，Liu Mengkun，Siebert, Sean M.，Averitt, Richard D.，Mannoor, Manu S.，McAlpine, Michael C.，Rogers, John A.，Kaplan, David L.，Omenetto, Fiorenzo G.，Silk-base d conformal, adhesive, edible food sensors，Advanced Materials，2012，24（8）：1067~1072.
[9] Hu Tao，Kainerstorfer Jana M.，Siebert Sean M.，Pritchard Eleanor M.，Sassaroli Angelo，Panilaitis Bruce J. B.，Brenckle Mark A.，Amsden Jason J.，Levitt Jonathan，Fantini Sergio，Kaplan David L.，Omenetto Fiorenzo G.，Implantable, multifunctional, bioresorbable optics，Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A，2012，109（48）：19584-19589.
[10] Hu Tao，Brenckle Mark A，Yang Miaomiao，Zhang Jingdi，Liu Mengkun，Siebert Sean M，Averitt Richard D，Mannoor Manu S，McAlpine Michael C，Rogers John A，Kaplan David L，Omenetto Fiorenzo G，Silk-based conformal, adhesive, edible food sensors.，Adv Mater，2012，24（8）：1067-1072.
[11] Hu Tao，Padilla Willie J.，Zhang Xin，Averitt Richard D.，Recent Progress in Electromagnetic Metamaterial Devices for Terahertz Applications，Ieee Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics，2011，17（1）：92-101.
[12] Hu Tao，Chieffo Logan R，Brenckle Mark A，Siebert Sean M，Liu Mengkun，Strikwerda Andrew C，Fan, Kebin，Kaplan, David L，Zhang, Xin，Averitt, Richard D，Omenetto, Fiorenzo G，Metamaterials on paper as a sensing platform.，Adv Mater，2011，23（28）：3197-3201.
[13] Hu Tao，Kadlec, Emil A，Strikwerda Andrew C，Fan Kebin，Padilla Willie J，Averitt Richard D，Shaner Eric A，Zhang X，Microwave and terahertz wave sensing with metamaterials.，Opt Express，2011，19（22）：21620-21626.
