Wei Gao

Wei Gao is a Professor of Medical Engineering, Ronald and JoAnne Willens Scholar, and Heritage Medical Research Institute Investigator in Division of Engineering and Applied Science at the California Institute of Technology. He received his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering at the University of California, San Diego in 2014 as a Jacobs Fellow and an HHMI International Student Research Fellow. In 2014-2017, he was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley.

He is an Associate Editor of Science Advances (AAAS), npj Flexible Electronics (Nature Portfolio), Biosensors and Bioelectronics (Elsevier), and Sensors & Diagnosis (RSC). He is a recipient of NSF Career Award, ONR Young Investigator Award, IAMBE Early Career Award, Sloan Research Fellowship, 3M Non-Tenured Faculty Award, Pittcon Achievement Award, IEEE EMBS Early Career Achievement Award, IEEE Sensor Council Technical Achievement Award, MIT Technology Review 35 Innovators Under 35, Falling Walls Breakthrough of the Year 2023 in Engineering and Technology, ACS DIC Young Investigator Award, and Materials Today Rising Star Award. He is a World Economic Forum Young Scientist, an American Cancer Society Research Scholar, a Highly Cited Researcher (Web of Science), a member of Global Young Academy, and a National Academy of Engineering’s USFOE alumnus. His research interests include wearable biosensors, digital medicine, bioelectronics, flexible electronics, and micro/nanorobotics.