Yong Xu

Yong Xu (SM'12) is an Associate Professor of electrical and computer engineering with Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA. He received the B.S. degree in electronics engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 1997, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA, in 1998 and 2002, respectively. He has worked on flexible sensor skins, intelligent textiles, wearable sensors, and stretchable/foldable devices in the last decade and has invented a number of novel technologies. Dr. Xu has authored or co-authored over 60 peer-reviewed scientific articles and received/filed ten patent applications based on his original research discoveries. He has been invited to serve as the reviewer or panelist by many funding agencies, such as National Science Foundation, National Institute of Justice in the USA, and research agencies in other countries. He received the National Science Foundation CAREER Award for his work on flexible and wearable sensors in 2008.