Hyoyoung Jeong Awarded Korean-American Scientists and Engineers Association Young Investigator Grant
by Korean-American Scientists and Engineers Association
Hyoyoung Jeong, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of California, Davis and affiliated faculty at the Center for Neuroengineering & Medicine, has been awarded a 2023 Korean-American Scientists and Engineers Association, or KSEA, Young Investigator Grant.
With support from the KSEA award, Jeong will investigate “Skin-interfaced wireless device for intrapartum fetal and maternal monitoring to minimize unnecessary C-section,” with an aim to research and develop the technology for an integrated monitoring platform leveraging advanced flexible electronics, wireless connectivity and compatibility with a wide range of low-cost mobile devices. His research will contribute to solving a health problem that touches virtually every family and can potentially make an impact on outcomes and cost of childbirth.
Jeong received his bachelor’s degree in biomedical engineering from Yonsei University in 2008 and a master’s degree in bioengineering from Seoul National University in 2010. He completed his Ph.D. at the University of Texas at Austin Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering supervised by Professor Nanshu Lu, where he developed a wireless stretchable electronic tattoo, or e-tattoo, and unconventional freeform manufacturing schemes for flexible thin film wearable devices.
Before his doctoral studies, Jeong worked for Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology for five years as a researcher and developer in the advanced smartphone hardware group and mobile healthcare group. His work as a postdoctoral scholar with Professor John Rogers at Northwestern University focused on the development and characterization of wireless soft wearable platforms for measuring and analyzing multimodal clinical-grade biopotentials. Currently, Jeong focuses on personalized closed-loop wearable bio-electronics for health monitoring, diagnostics and therapeutics.
Jeong has received several awards, including the Engineering Ph.D. Summit Award from École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland. He received the 15th and 24th Samsung Humantech Paper Awards from Samsung Electronics Co. To date, he has published more than 30 journal papers in prestigious journals, including Science and multiple Science Advances and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, as a leading author. His publications have received over 1,800 citations with an h-index of 21. He has received 17 patents (8 pending) and has been invited to give more than 30 talks related to his research area.