VISE Spring Seminar – W. Hong Yeo, PhD, 2.12.26
VISE welcomes Hong Yeo, PhD, to our Spring 2026 Seminar Series.
W. Hong Yeo, PhD
G.P. “Bud” Peterson and Valerie H. Peterson Endowed Professor
Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering
and the Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering
Georgia Tech
Date: Thursday, February 12, 2026
NEW Location: Light Hall 202
Time: 11:45 am for lunch,12:00 start
Title:
Soft Wearable Intelligent Bioelectronics for Health Monitoring
Abstract:
In this presentation, Dr. Yeo will discuss the fundamental scientific principles behind integrated nanomembrane biosensors and bioelectronics, with a focus on their groundbreaking applications in wearable configurations. He will address the limitations and challenges of current biomedical systems used for health monitoring, such as issues with comfort, accuracy, and long-term stability. To respond to these challenges, Dr. Yeo will present a series of innovative solutions utilizing soft sensors and integrated electronics, which allow for flexible, skin-like devices tailored for real-world use. Specifically, he will highlight novel strategies for designing and fabricating advanced systems through materials engineering, state-of-the-art printing-based nanomanufacturing, and the integration of hard-soft system packaging technologies for optimal durability and performance. Additionally, Dr. Yeo will provide compelling examples from both in vitro and in vivo studies to illustrate the novelty, reliability, and effectiveness of these soft intelligent bioelectronics. He will emphasize their significant advantages over existing technologies, such as enabling real-time, continuous health monitoring, portable healthcare solutions, quantitative disease diagnosis, and connected therapeutics facilitated by advanced human-machine interfaces. The talk will conclude with a discussion of future directions and broader impacts for personalized healthcare.
Bio:
Dr. Yeo holds the title of G.P. “Bud” Peterson and Valerie H. Peterson Endowed Professor in the Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering and the Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech. He is also the director of the Wearable Intelligent Systems and Healthcare Center, the NSF Research Traineeship Program in Sustainable Development of Smart Medical Devices, and the KIAT-Georgia Tech Semiconductor Electronics Center. Dr. Yeo’s research focuses on understanding the fundamentals of soft materials, deformable mechanics, interfacial physics, manufacturing, and the integration of hard and soft materials for the development of soft biomedical systems. He earned his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering and genome sciences from the University of Washington in Seattle and subsequently worked as a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. With over 190 peer-reviewed publications, Dr. Yeo has contributed to many prestigious journals, including Nature Materials, Nature Machine Intelligence, Nature Communications, and Science Advances. He is an Associate Editor of Biosensors and Bioelectronics and has received numerous awards, including the Professorship from the Institute Jean Lamour at the Université de Lorraine in France, the Lucy G. Moses Lectureship Award at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, the NIH Trailblazer Young Investigator Award, the IEEE Outstanding Engineer Award, the Emory School of Medicine Research Award, and the Imlay Innovation Award. Dr. Yeo is also the founder of two startup companies: Huxley Medical, Inc. and WisMedical, Inc.