Wei Gao (0000-0002-8503-4562)

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Wei Gao is a Professor of Medical Engineering, Willens Scholar, and Heritage Medical Research Institute (HMRI) Investigator in the 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 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. He is a recipient of the NSF Career Award, IAMBE Early Career Award, Sloan Research Fellowship, ONR Young Investigator Award, Pittsburgh Conference Achievement Award, Falling Walls Breakthrough of the Year 2023 in Engineering and Technology, 3M Non-Tenured Faculty Award, IEEE EMBS Early Career Achievement Award, IEEE Sensors Council Technical Achievement Award, MIT Technology Review 35 Innovators Under 35 (TR35), and ACS Young Investigator Award (Division of Inorganic Chemistry). He is an American Cancer Society Research Scholar, Highly Cited Researcher (Web of Science), World Economic Forum Young Scientist (Class of 2020), a member of the Global Young Academy, and a National Academy of Engineering’s USFOE alumnus. His research interests include wearable and flexible electronics, biosensors, the Internet of Things, nanorobotics, and nanomedicine.

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California Institute of Technology: Pasadena, US

2024-07-01 to present | Professor (Medical Engineering)

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California Institute of Technology: Pasadena, US

California Institute of Technology: Pasadena, CA, US

California Institute of Technology: Pasadena, CA, US

California Institute of Technology: Pasadena, CA, US

University of California Berkeley: Berkeley, CA, US

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University of California San Diego: La Jolla, CA, US

Works (50 of 172)

Exhaled Breath Analysis: From Laboratory Test to Wearable Sensing

Repair, Regeneration, and Replacement, Revisited (Redux)

Continuous Nicotine Monitors for Personal Nicotine Pharmacokinetics: A Receptor-Aware Research Agenda

Non-invasive hormone monitoring with a wearable sweat biosensor

Lighting the Path to Precision Healthcare: Advances and Applications of Wearable Photonic Sensors

Organ-specific sympathetic innervation defines visceral functions

Nucleic acid-based wearable and implantable electrochemical sensors

Applied body-fluid analysis by wearable devices

Humidity resilient ionogels for joint pressure monitoring

Miniaturized soft batteries for biomedical implants

Wearable and Implantable Soft Robots

Microneedle sensors for dermal interstitial fluid analysis

Diving into Sweat: Advances, Challenges, and Future Directions in Wearable Sweat Sensing

A smart mask for exhaled breath condensate harvesting and analysis

(Invited) Skin-Interfaced Wearable Sweat Biosensors

Wound management materials and technologies from bench to bedside and beyond

Injectable and retrievable soft electronics

Multimodal Soft Robotic Actuation and Locomotion

A wearable aptamer nanobiosensor for non-invasive female hormone monitoring

Towards on-skin analysis of sweat for managing disorders of substance abuse

Low-Cost Biosensor Technologies for Rapid Detection of COVID-19 and Future Pandemics

3D-printed epifluidic electronic skin for machine learning-powered multimodal health surveillance

Autonomous metal-organic framework nanorobots for active mitochondria-targeted cancer therapy

Immunosuppressant adherence in adult outpatient hematopoietic cell transplant recipients

Magnetically Powered Immunogenic Macrophage Microrobots for Targeted Multimodal Cancer Therapy

Direct-ink-writing 3D-printed bioelectronics

(Invited) Skin-Interfaced Wearable Biosensors

Artificial intelligence-powered electronic skin

A Computationally Assisted Approach for Designing Wearable Biosensors toward Non‐Invasive Personalized Molecular Analysis

Fibrous wearable and implantable bioelectronics

Poly‐Catecholic Functionalization of Biomolecules for Rapid Gelation, Robust Injectable Bioadhesion, and Near‐Infrared Responsiveness

An autonomous wearable biosensor powered by a perovskite solar cell

Physically defined long-term and short-term synapses for the development of reconfigurable analog-type operators capable of performing health care tasks

A wireless patch for the monitoring of C-reactive protein in sweat

Skin-Interfaced Wearable Sweat Sensors for Precision Medicine

A stretchable wireless wearable bioelectronic system for multiplexed monitoring and combination treatment of infected chronic wounds

Micro- and nanorobots for biomedical applications in the brain

A fibrous neuromorphic device for multi-level nerve pathways implementing knee jerk reflex and cognitive activities

Engineering viral genomics and nano-liposomes in microfluidic platforms for patient-specific analysis of SARS-CoV-2 variants

Microcracked conductors for wearable sensors

Wearable chemical sensors for biomarker discovery in the omics era

A wearable electrochemical biosensor for the monitoring of metabolites and nutrients

All-printed soft human-machine interface for robotic physicochemical sensing

Flexible Electronics and Devices as Human–Machine Interfaces for Medical Robotics

Wearable Bioelectronics for Chronic Wound Management

3D Porous Graphene Films with Large‐Area In‐Plane Exterior Skins

A soft bioaffinity sensor array for chronic wound monitoring

Electrical impedance tomography for non-invasive identification of fatty liver infiltrate in overweight individuals

Wall-induced translation of a rotating particle in a shear-thinning fluid

Wearable electrochemical biosensors in North America

Peer review (268 reviews for 52 publications/grants)