The research team led by Associate Professor Xuyang Lu of the University of Michigan-Shanghai Jiao Tong University Joint Institute (UM-SJTU JI, JI hereafter) has had two papers accepted by the 2025 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), a top conference in the field of integrated circuits. The papers, first-authored by JI doctoral students Yutian Zhao and Runqing Cai, focus on innovations in digital beamforming power amplifiers and microrobots with on-chip energy harvesting. Professor Lu is the corresponding author for both papers.

A research team from the University of Michigan – Shanghai Jiao Tong University Joint Institute (UM-SJTU JI, JI hereafter) has published an article titled “Thermal Computing with Mechanical Transistors” in Advanced Functional Materials, a top-tier materials science journal with a Nature Index Impact Factor of 19. Featured on the inside cover of the journal, the article highlighted mechanical transistors developed by the research team and demonstrated thermal computing to supplement traditional electronic computing.

Professor Yaping Dan from the University of Michigan-Shanghai Jiao Tong University Joint Institute (UM-SJTU JI, JI hereafter) has published a paper titled “Analytical impact excitation of Er/O/B co-doped Si light emitting diodes” in Physical Review Letters, a global top journal in physics.

The research team led by Assistant Professor Yulian He of the University of Michigan-Shanghai Jiao Tong University Joint Institute (UM-SJTU JI, JI hereafter) has made a significant contribution in catalyst design optimization. Their findings, published in the prestigious scientific journal, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS), introduce a novel method for determining the pivotal physical quantity influencing chemisorption energy on catalyst surfaces.

Four undergraduate students of the University of Michigan – Shanghai Jiao Tong University Joint Institute (UM–SJTU JI, JI hereafter) have published a research article titled “Patchable Transparent Standalone Piezoelectric P(VDF-TrFE) Film for Radial Artery Pulse Detection” in International Journal of Energy Research, a journal with an impactor factor of 4.6 and journal citation report top 2%.

The University of Michigan-Shanghai Jiao Tong University Joint Institute (UM-SJTU JI, JI hereafter) Associate Professor Rui Yang has obtained support from Shanghai Rising-Star Program (Class A) , after his research project entitled “In-memory computing devices based...

The University of Michigan-Shanghai Jiao Tong University Joint Institute (UM-SJTU JI, JI hereafter) Associate Professor Lei Shao and his collaborators have published a research article titled “A wave-confining metasphere beamforming acoustic sensor for superior human-machine voice interaction” in Science Advances,  a peer-reviewed multidisciplinary open-access scientific journal run by the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The article proposes a new acoustic sensor for human-machine interaction (HMI) to distinguish and track multiple sound sources in a noisy background, with an outstanding signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and a superior sensitivity at the same time.

The University of Michigan – Shanghai Jiao Tong University Joint Institute (UM-SJTU JI, JI hereafter) Associate Professor Yongxing Shen and his team have published a research article titled “An asynchronous variational integrator for the phase field approach to...