YuebingZheng

Yuebing Zheng
ProfessorTemple Foundation Endowed Professorship No. 2

Research Interests

Optical manipulation and measurement; Thermal photonics; Nano/biophotonics; Machine learning

About

Yuebing Zheng is a professor of mechanical engineering and materials science and engineering at The University of Texas at Austin. He received his Ph.D. (with Prof. Tony Jun Huang) from The Pennsylvania State University in 2010 and was a postdoctoral researcher (with Prof. Paul S. Weiss) at the University of California, Los Angeles from 2010 to 2013.

Educational Qualifications

  • Ph.D., Engineering Science and Mechanics, Pennsylvania State University, 2010
  • M.S., Physics, National University of Singapore, 2004
  • B.S., Applied Optics, Nankai University, 2001

Select Awards & Honors

  • Fellow of The International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE) (2025)
  • Fellow of the Optica (formerly Optical Society of America) (2024)
  • University Co-op Research Excellence Award for Best Paper (2019)
  • Fellow of the Institute of Physics (2019)
  • Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (2018)
  • Materials Today Rising Star Award – Elsevier Ltd (2018)
  • Director’s New Innovator Award – National Institutes of Health (2017)
  • Early Career Faculty Award – NASA (2017)
  • Young Investigator Award – Office of Naval Research (2017)
  • Beckman Young Investigator Award – Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation (2014)

Select Publications