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Education

  • Postdoctoral Fellow, Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2011-2013
  • Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, University of Washington, 2011
  • M.S., Mechanical Engineering, University of Washington, 2008
  • B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Inha University, 2003

Background

Dr. Yeo holds the titles of G.P. "Bud" Peterson and Valerie H. Peterson Endowed Professor, as well as Harris Saunders Jr. 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 (WISH Center) and the KIAT-Georgia Tech Semiconductor Electronics Center (K-GTSEC). 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 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 180 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 IEEE Senior Member and has received numerous awards, including the Visiting 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, the Imlay Innovation Award, the American Heart Association Innovative Project Award, the Sensors Young Investigator Award, the Med-X Young Investigator Award, and the Outstanding Service Award from the Korea Institute for Advancement of Technology, as well as the Outstanding Yonsei Scholar Award. Dr. Yeo is also the founder of two startup companies: Huxley Medical, Inc. and WisMedical, Inc.

Research

  • Soft Robotics and Human-Machine Interfaces
  • Bioelectronics for Health Monitoring and Disease Diagnosis
  • Smart Machine Intelligence and Deep Learning
  • Nanomembrane Implantable Electronics for Therapeutics
  • High-throughput Fabrication of Micro/Nanostructures
  • Nano-Biosensors for Disease Diagnostics

Distinctions and Awards

  • G.P. "Bud" Peterson and Valerie H. Peterson Faculty Endowed Professorship in Pediatric Research, Georgia Tech, 2025.
  • Med-X Young Investigator Award, Springer-Nature Publishing Group, 2025.
  • GWW Research Award, Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, 2025.
  • GWW Culture Champion Award, Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, 2025.
  • Harris Saunders Jr. Professorship, Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Tech, 2024.
  • Outstanding Mid-Career Faculty Award, Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, 2024.
  • Imlay Innovation Award, Imlay Foundation, 2024.
  • Outstanding Service Award, Korea Institute for Advancement of Technology, 2024.
  • Visiting Professorship from the Institute Jean Lamour at the Université de Lorraine in France, 2024.
  • NIH Trailblazer Young Investigator Award, the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), 2021.
  • Outstanding Engineer Award, 2021 Atlanta Section Award of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2021.
  • Lucy G. Moses Lectureship in Medical Imaging and Bioengineering, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, 2020.
  • Sensors Young Investigator Award, Sensors, 2020.
  • AHA Innovative Project Award, American Heart Association (AHA), 2019.
  • Advanced Materials Non-Tenure Faculty Award, Hanwha Q Cells and Advanced Materials, 2019.

Representative Publications

List of Publications