Mechanical Engineering
yong.kong@utah.edu
Yong Lin Kong is an Assistant Professor of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Utah (2018 - Present). Previously, he was a postdoctoral associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2016 - 2017), working with Professor Robert Langer and Dr. Giovanni Traverso. He received a B.Eng. in Mechanical Engineering with First Class Honors from The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (2010), an M.A. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Princeton University (2012) and a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science from Princeton University (2016) with Professor Michael C. McAlpine and Professor Howard A. Stone. Yong Lin's research focuses on the additive manufacturing of nanomaterial-based functional devices and biomedical devices. He is a recipient of the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Program (ONR YIP) Award, NIH Trailblazer Award, NIH R01 Award, Technology Review Innovators Under 35 Asia Award, SME Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award, 3M Non-Tenured Faculty Award, SPIE Rising Researcher Award, Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award, TMS Functional Materials Division Young Leaders Professional Development Award, Materials Research Society Graduate Student Award, The Daniel & Florence Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, Sayre Graduate Prize, the HKUST Academic Achievement Medal, and the University of Utah College of Engineering Top Undergraduate Teachers & Top Graduate Teachers Awards.
Westminster College
- Campbell Endowed Graduate Fellowship 2022-2023
SUNY Geneseo
University of California, Los Angeles
Brigham Young University
Master of Science, Mechanical Engineering
Brigham Young University
- Campbell Endowed Graduate Fellowship 2020-2021
Institute of Engineering and Management
Brigham Young University
University of Pacific
- Utah NASA Space Grant Fellowship 2019-2022
- Shane Robison Fellowship 2018-2019
University of Utah
Costa Rica Institute of Technology
- Fulbright Scholarship
- Merrill Engineering Scholarship 2019-2020
- Summer 2021 UROP Award
- Fall 2021 UROP Award
- Dee Foundation-Undergraduate Research Scholarship, Fall 2022
- Summer 2018 UROP Award
- Fall 2018 UROP Award
- Fall 2020 UROP Award
- Spring 2020 UROP Award
- Fall 2020 UROP Award
- Rajan Neupane - B. Eng. in Mechanical Engineering, Tribhuvan University; M.S. (thesis option) in Mechanical Engineering, University of Utah
- Udayan Ghosh - B.S. in Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology; M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, University of Utah
- Eric Tokita (B.S. in Biomedical Engineering, University of Utah)
- Scott Schaffer (Mechanical Engineering, University of Utah)
- Sebastian Herrera-Sanchez (Double Major in Physics and Mechanical Engineering, Universidad de Costa Rica)
- International Exchange Program
- Alex Noah (Double Major in Mechanical Engineering and Finance [Honor Program], University of Utah)
- Spring 2020 UROP Award
- Kaua’i Wu (Biomedical Engineering, University of Utah)
- Douglas Stephen Wirthlin (Chemistry, Brigham Young University)
- Jonathan Wiggins (Computer Science, University of Utah)
- Fall 2018 UROP Award
- Haley Wilson (Biochemistry, University of Montana)
- National Student Exchange Program
- Hakimi Nazlie (B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, University of Utah)
- Summer 2018 UROP Award
- Yousef Alamri (Bioengineering, University of Utah)
- Summer 2018 UROP Award
- Shen Ning (M.D.-Ph.D., Boston University)
- Caitlin McCandler (B.S. in Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
- Nancy Wang (B.S. in Chemical-Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
- Xingyu Zou (B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
- Ian Tamargo (B.S. in Chemistry, Princeton University)