Researcher

Hu Tao

Title: Professor
Subject: Protein-based Micro/nano Fabrication and Devices
Phone: +86-021-62511070
Fax: +86-021-62131744
Email: tiger@mail.sim.ac.cn
Address: 865 Changning Road, Shanghai,China, 200050

RESUME

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.

MAJOR HONORS

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..

work EXPERIENCE

    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

EDUCATION

    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.

INVITED TALKS

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.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

[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 DiffractionBased 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 TaoHwang Suk-WonMarelli BenedettoAn BoMoreau Jodie EYang MiaomiaoBrenckle Mark AKim StanleyKaplan David LRogers John AOmenetto Fiorenzo GSilk-based resorbable electronic devices for remotely controlled therapy and in vivo infection abatement.Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A201411149):17385-17389.

[5]   Hwang Suk-WonHu TaoKim Dae-HyeongCheng HuanyuSong Jun-KyulRill ElliottBrenckle Mark A.Panilaitis BruceWon Sang MinKim Yun-SoungSong Young MinYu Ki JunAmeen AbidLi RuiSu YewangYang MiaomiaoKaplan David LZakin Mitchell R.Slepian Marvin J.Huang YonggangOmenetto, Fiorenzo G.Rogers John A.A Physically Transient Form of Silicon ElectronicsScience20123376102):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 TaoKaplan David LOmenetto Fiorenzo GSilk materials—a road to sustainable high technology.Advanced Materials20122421):2 824-2837.

[8]   Hu TaoBrenckle Mark A.Yang MiaomiaoZhang JingdiLiu MengkunSiebert, 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 sensorsAdvanced Materials2012248):1067~1072.

[9]   Hu TaoKainerstorfer Jana M.Siebert Sean M.Pritchard Eleanor M.Sassaroli AngeloPanilaitis Bruce J. B.Brenckle Mark A.Amsden Jason J.Levitt JonathanFantini SergioKaplan David L.Omenetto Fiorenzo G.Implantable, multifunctional, bioresorbable opticsProc Natl Acad Sci U S A201210948):19584-19589.

[10] Hu TaoBrenckle Mark AYang MiaomiaoZhang JingdiLiu MengkunSiebert Sean MAveritt Richard DMannoor Manu SMcAlpine Michael CRogers John AKaplan David LOmenetto Fiorenzo GSilk-based conformal, adhesive, edible food sensors.Adv Mater2012248):1067-1072.

[11] Hu TaoPadilla Willie J.Zhang XinAveritt Richard D.Recent Progress in Electromagnetic Metamaterial Devices for Terahertz ApplicationsIeee Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics2011171):92-101.

[12] Hu TaoChieffo Logan RBrenckle Mark ASiebert Sean MLiu MengkunStrikwerda Andrew CFan, KebinKaplan, David LZhang, XinAveritt, Richard DOmenetto, Fiorenzo GMetamaterials on paper as a sensing platform.Adv Mater20112328):3197-3201.

[13] Hu TaoKadlec, Emil AStrikwerda Andrew CFan KebinPadilla Willie JAveritt Richard DShaner Eric AZhang XMicrowave and terahertz wave sensing with metamaterials.Opt Express20111922):21620-21626.