1/2/2023: Professor Kong has been awarded the SME Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award. We are extremely grateful for the honor and for SME's recognition. Thank you so much!
12/8/2022: Thank you so much to the students from the Fall 2022 Additive Manufacturing (ME EN 5011/6011) for the great semester! All the very best and please keep in touch! 🙂
10/12/2022: Professor Kong has been recommended for the Fiscal Year 2022 Peer Reviewed Medical Research Program (PRMRP) Discovery Award. We are extremely grateful for the honor and for the Department of Defense's generous support! Thank you so much!
[FY 2022 PRMRP Discovery Award]
09/23/2022: Professor Kong has been awarded the 2023 Office of Naval Research (ONR) Young Investigator Program award ($750,000, three years). We are extremely grateful for the honor and for ONR's generous support! Thank you so much!
[Office of Naval Research news release: "Best and Brightest: ONR'S 2023 Young Investigator"]
[Department News]
9/15/2022: Our article "Ingestible Functional Magnetic Robot with Localized Flexibility (MR-LF)" has been accepted at Advanced Intelligent Systems.
09/01/2022: Professor Kong has just been awarded an R01 grant (>$1.37 M, 4 years award) by the National Institute of Health (NIH). As the Principal Investigator, Professor Kong will lead his group to transform the treatment of obesity with ingestible electronics. We are extremely grateful and excited for NIBIB's significant support of our effort. Thank you so much!
[Department News]
8/18/2022: Our collaborative article "Needle-integrated Ultrathin Bioimpedance Microsensor Array for Early Detection of Extravasation" with Prof. John Ho at the National University of Singapore has been accepted at Biosensors and Bioelectronics.
4/26/2022: Thank you students from the Spring 2022 Engineering Design I (ME EN 4000) for the amazing semester! You are awesome! All the very best and please keep in touch! 😀
2/3/2022: Our collaborative article "Digitally-embroidered Liquid Metal Wearable Wireless Systems" with Prof. John Ho at the National University of Singapore has been accepted at Nature Communications.
2/3/2022: Our article "Machine Learning-enabled Feature Classification of Evaporation-driven Multi-scale 3D Printing" has been accepted at Flexible and Printed Electronics.
12/9/2021: Thank you so much to the students from the Fall 2021 Additive Manufacturing (ME EN 5960/6960) for the great semester! All the very best and please keep in touch! 🙂
5/25/2021: Our article "A 3D Printed Self-Learning Three-Linked Sphere Robot for Autonomous Confined Space Navigation" has been accepted at Advanced Intelligent Systems.
5/6/2021: Professor Kong has been awarded the 2021-22 Utah NASA Space Grant Consortium (UNSGC) Faculty Research Seed Funding. Thank you Utah Space Grant Consortium for the support.
4/27/2021: Thank you students from the Spring 2021 Engineering Design I (ME EN 4000) for the amazing semester! You are awesome! All the very best and please keep in touch! 😀
4/23/2021: Congratulations to Jared Anklam for passing his Ph.D. qualifying examination!
3/6/2021: Professor Kong has been awarded the 3M Non-Tenured Faculty Award. This highly competitive award is nominated by 3M researchers and selected based on the faculty's outstanding research, experience and academic leadership. Thank you 3M for the award.
[College of Engineering News]
1/13/2021: Professor Kong has been awarded the The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS) Functional Materials Division (FMD) Young Leaders Professional Development Award. Thank you TMS for the award.
[TMS]
12/3/2020: Thank you so much to the students from the Fall 2020 Additive Manufacturing (ME EN 5960/6960) for the great semester! All the very best and please keep in touch! 🙂
[College of Engineering News]
12/5/2019: Professor Kong introduced a new manufacturing course: the first "Additive Manufacturing" at the University of Utah. Thank you class of ME EN 5960/6960 of Fall 2019 for the exciting and amazing teaching experience! All the very best and please keep in touch! 🙂
6/13/2019: Our invited article "Transforming military medicine with 3D printed bioelectronics" has been published and selected as the cover of the Homeland Defense & Security Information Analysis Center (HDIAC) Journal.
5/20/2019: Professor Kong has been selected to receive the 2019-2020 Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award. Thank you Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU) for the award.
[SPIE]
[Department News]
[Department News | SPIE]
[NSF Award 1830958 | Department News]
[Department News | U.S. Patent 9,887,356]
- "3D Printed Active Electronic Materials and Devices." U.S. Patent 9,887,356 (issued February 6, 2018).
- "3D Printed Quantum Dot Light-Emitting Diodes." Nano Letters 14, 7017-7023 (2014).
- Featured in "Device fabrication: Three-dimensional printed electronics." Nature 518, 42-43 (2015).
- Highlighted in "Materials: Diodes printed in three dimensions." Nature 515, 468 (2014).
August 2016: Annual Robert S. Langer Laboratory beach party.
December, 2015: Final Public Oral with Professor Howard A. Stone and the Stonelab members.
December 2015: Farewell gathering with friends from Stonelab.
December 2013: Fund Experts Forum, Zurich, Switzerland.
October, 2013: Group photo with Professor Michael C. McAlpine and lab members.