Dr. Jun Chen
Jun Chen, Ph.D. is Associate Professor in the Department of Bioengineering at the University of California, Los Angeles.
His current research in his UCLA Lab focuses on wearable bioelectronics. He leads the Wearable Bioelectronics Research Group at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, which studies nanotechnology and bioelectronics for energy, sensing, and therapeutic applications in the form of smart textiles, wearables, and body-area networks.
Among his many breakthrough technology advancements is a wearable glove that can translate American Sign Language into speech. Read A Wearable Sign-to-Speech Translation System.
In 2021, Jun directed his research group at UCLA to discover the giant magnetoelastic effect in a solid soft polymer system, later in a liquid permanent fluidic magnet, which paves a fundamentally new way to build up intrinsically waterproof and biocompatible soft bioelectronics for diagnostics, therapeutics, and energy applications. Jun’s research group at UCLA is currently pioneering such research efforts.
Read Giant magnetoelastic effect in soft systems for bioelectronics, Permanent fluidic magnets for liquid bioelectronics, and A self-filtering liquid acoustic sensor for voice recognition.
Jun has been named a Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate Web of Science four years in a row. Selection to the global list is reserved for authors whose published studies rank in the top 1% in the number of scholarly citations.
In addition to his research, Jun developed three undergraduate and graduate courses he teaches on wearable bioelectronics, nanogenerators, and bioelectronic device design.
He has published two books and 320 journal articles, 220 of which are corresponding authors in publications such as Chemical Reviews, Chemical Society Reviews, Nature Review Bioengineering, Nature Materials, Nature Electronics, Nature Biomedical Engineering, Nature Communications, Science Advances, Joule, Matter, and Advanced Materials.
He also filed 14 US patents, including one licensed. On the Web of Science, Jun is identified as one of the world’s most influential researchers in Materials Science, with a current h-index of 111.
Jun is also Associate Editor of Biosensors & Bioelectronics, Soft Science, Med-X, FlexMat, Textiles, and VIEW Medicine. He is an Advisory/Editorial Board Member of Matter, Cell Reports Physical Science, Materials Today, Materials Today Energy, Nano-Micro Letters, Nano Trends, and The Innovation. Watch OAE Interview | Conversation with Prof. Jun Chen, UCLA, New Associate Editor of Soft Science Journal.
For his many contributions to the field, Jun has received many accolades, including a UCLA Engineering 2023 Award, V.M. Watanabe Excellence in Research Award, UCLA Faculty Mentor Award, Georgia Tech Alumni 40 Under 40, Shu Chien Early Career Award, Young Investigator Grant from the national nonprofit Brain & Behavior Research Foundation, and a Young Investigator Award from the American Chemical Society’s Division of Polymeric Materials: Science and Engineering.
Jun also received the Materials Today Rising Star Award, the Advanced Materials Rising Star Award, ONR Young Investigator Award, AHA Innovative Project Award, AHA Transformational Project Award, AHA’s Second Century Early Faculty Independence Award, NIH UCLA CTSI KL2 Translational Science Award, BBRF Young Investigator Award, Okawa Foundation Research Award, ACS Nano Rising Stars Lectureship Award, the ChemSocRev Emerging Investigator Award, Nano Research Young Innovator Award, and ACS PMSE Young Investigator Award.
He has been named a UCLA Hellman Fellow and a fellow of the International Association of Advanced Materials.
Jun earned his Master’s Degree of Science in Biological Engineering from Georgia Tech in 2012 with his thesis, Si Nanorods Enhanced Anisotropic Wetting on Compact Disk Surface. He earned his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from Georgia Tech in 2016 with his Triboelectric nanogenerators dissertation, followed by postdoctoral studies at Stanford University until 2019, when he joined the UCLA Samueli faculty.
Read Smart textiles for personalized healthcare, Biomaterials and bioelectronics for self-powered neurostimulation, and Motion artefact management for soft bioelectronics. Read UCLA team develop flexible self-powered bioelectronic device.
Watch Lab Interview from Voice of America — Jun Chen Research Group at UCLA, Smart Textiles for Personalized Healthcare Prof. Dr. Jun Chen | #Vebleo | University of California, Los Angeles, United States, and The 3rd KAIST Emerging Materials e-Symposium — Jun Chen (UCLA).
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