Academic Appointments

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan                                                              2024 - Present

Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering    

Visiting Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering         2023                                                                                     

Stanford University | University of California, Berkeley, CA                                                          2023

Research Associate (2023), Postdoctoral Scholar (2020), Materials Science and Engineering, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, SLAC, Berkeley Lab - LBNL

MIT | Harvard University, Cambridge, MA                                                                                                  2017

Research Fellow, Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering, Koch Institute, Children’s Hospital Boston

Fudan University, Shanghai, China                                                                                                                   2016

Ph.D. in Chemistry, Summa Cum Laude, Laboratory for Advanced Materials, College of Chemistry and Materials Science

Monash University, Melbourne, Australia                                                                                                   2014

Graduate Researcher, Chemical and Biological Engineering      

Prof. Jing Tang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Michigan. Prior to joining U-M, Prof. Tang initially served as a postdoctoral research fellow and subsequently assumed the role of a Physical Science Research Scientist with ​Professors ​​​​Yi Cui at Stanford and Jeffrey A. Reimer at UC Berkeley, inventing nature-inspired materials and devices for energy and sustainability in close collaboration with Professor Zhenan Bao at Stanford. Before joining the Cui Group and the Reimer Group, Prof. Tang was a research fellow jointly advised by Professors Daniel S. Kohane at Harvard and Robert S. Langer at MIT and was working on therapies to treat neurological disorders, from biomaterials to smart drug delivery systems. ​​In her graduate work, supervised by Professors Gengfeng Zheng and Dean Dongyuan Zhao at Fudan University, Prof. Tang focused on bioelectronics-enabled artificial retina. Throughout the adventure of this scientific journey, Prof. Tang also has benefited greatly from the guidance and mentorship of Professor Bozhi Tian at the University of Chicago. Prof. Tang considers herself incredibly fortunate to have received inspiration, training, and supervision from her extraordinary advisors, who possess wisdom, insights, and vision. Prof. Tang's goal at U-M is to instill in the next generation of scientists with her curiosity, innovation, energy, passion, and enthusiasm for science.

Prof. Tang’s research has been highlighted by worldwide news media, including Nature Research, Nature News, ​Science Daily, Scientific American, Discover News, The Economist, MIT Technology Review, EurekAlert!, New Scientist, Stanford News, Berkeley News, DOE Office of Science, UC Newsroom, College of Chemistry - UC Berkeley, VOA, Science Advances, Nature Communications, and The Scientist, while also being recognized with several awards, including the Invited Book Chapters: MIT Innovators 35 Under 35 Women in STEM, the MIT Technology Review 35 Innovators Under 35, the Rising Star in Engineering in Health by Johns Hopkins University and Columbia University and the Rising Star in Chemical Engineering by MIT, UCLA Future Faculty Scholar, NextProf Nexus Class of 2022 UC Berkeley/University of Michigan/Georgia Institute of Technology, ACS PMSE Future Faculty Honoree,​ the University of Wisconsin-Madison WiscProf Program, and Baosteel National Grand Prize Award (Ranked #1 Nationally), among other honors. Besides her research interests, Prof. Tang has been co-leading translational initiatives and serving as the reviewer and editor of peer-reviewed journals while holding multiple patents relating to fundamental discoveries and materials innovation for energy, sustainability and health. 

2024 Invited Book Chapters: MIT Innovators 35 Under 35 Women in STEM

2023 ACS Polymeric Materials: Science and Engineering (PMSE) Future Faculty Scholar

2022 The University of Wisconsin-Madison WiscProf Program

2022 NextProf Nexus, UC Berkeley/University of Michigan/Georgia Institute of Technology

2021 MIT Rising Star in Chemical Engineering 

2021 Rising Star in Engineering in Health by Johns Hopkins University and Columbia University

2020 MIT Technology Review 35 Innovators Under 35

2020 UCLA Future Faculty Scholar

​2019 Young Investigator Award in Northern California Chapter American Association of Physicists

08/2023 (Invited) ACS Polymeric Materials: Science and Engineering (PMSE) Future Faculty and Early Investigator Awardees Symposium, San Francisco, CA.

06/2023 (Invited) Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability Greenhouse Gas Removal Workshop (Host: Inaugural Faculty Director of Sustainability Accelerator Profs. Yi Cui and Doerr School of Sustainability Dean Arun Majumdar), San Francisco, CA.

07/2022 Materials Innovation for Carbon Capture by Advanced Magnetic Resonance Methods, 61st Rocky Mountain Conference on Magnetic Resonance, Copper Mountain, Colorado.

06/2022 School of Engineering, NextProf Nexus Class of 2022, UC Berkeley/University of Michigan/Georgia Institute of Technology, Berkeley, CA.

05/2022 College of Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI.

05/2022 Cellulose Derived Hierarchical Nanopore-Spaced Membranes by Murray’s Law for Gas Capture and Storage, MRS Spring Meeting, Honolulu, Hawaii.

04/2022 Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage, Gordon Research Conference (GRC), Ventura, CA.

11/2021 Rising Stars in Engineering in Health by Johns Hopkins University and Columbia University, New York, NY.

11/2021 Revealing Molecular Mechanisms in Hierarchical Nanoporous Carbon by Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, Materials Research Society (MRS) Fall Meeting, Boston, MA

09/2021 Rising Stars in Chemical Engineering Program at MIT, Boston, MA.

Professional External Service and Synergistic Activities 

• Reviewer for NSF, Biomedical Engineering Society | BMES

• Panel Reviewer for National Science Foundation

• Reviewer for the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Light Source – SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, the Advanced Light Source (ALS) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

• Editorial Manager, Materials Today Energy (Elsevier)

• Associate Editor for Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology  

• Independent Reviewer of over 50 International Journals, including:  

Nature Communications, Science Advances, Matter, Journal of the American Chemical Society, JACS Au, Angewandte Chemie, Nano Letters, Biomedical Engineering Society | BMES, ACS Nano, Advanced Materials, Advanced Energy Materials, Advanced Functional Materials, Chemistry of Materials, Advanced Healthcare Materials, Small, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, Biosensors and Bioelectronics, ACS Sensors, Nanoscale, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, B, C, Scientific Reports, Analyst, RSC Advances, The Journal of The Electrochemical Society, Analytical Chemistry, Journal of Colloid and Interface, MRS Advances, ACS Omega, ACS Applied Nano Materials, Frontiers Bioengineering, SmartMatter, etc.