Kuang Lab
Adaptive Materials & Advanced Manufacturing Laboratory

Xiao Kuang

Position title: Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Email: xkuang9@wisc.edu

Website: Xiao Kuang's website

Phone: (608) 890-2548

Address:
1513 University Ave,1055ME,Madison, WI, 53706

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BIOGRAPHY:

Dr. Kuang earned his Ph.D. degree at the University of Chinese Academy of Science in 2016 (Advisor: Professor Dujin Wang). After that, he completed his postdoctoral training at the Georgia Institute of Technology (advisor: Professor H. Jerry Qi) and at Brigham and Women’s Hospital & Harvard Medical School (advisor: Professor Yu Shrike Zhang). His research focuses on the design and advanced manufacturing of multifunctional devices and (bio)systems to address societal challenges in sustainability and healthcare. Dr. Kuang has published over 90 peer-reviewed papers in prestigious journals, including Science, Science Advances, Nat. Rev. Mater., and Nat. Commun, Advanced Materials, Advanced Functional Materials, Macromolecules, and Additive Manufacturing. His research has been recognized by federal funding agencies, including NSF, NIH, and AFOSR, and has been featured in Science and over 100 international media outlets. Dr. Kuang serves as a youth editorial board member for Materials, Fundamental Research, and the Chinese Journal of Polymer Sciences, and as an independent reviewer for over 30 journals, including Science, Advanced Materials, Nano-micro Letters, Aggregate, Chemical Engineering Journal, and ACS. Applied Materials & Interfaces, Additive Manufacturing, Composites: Part B, Polymer, etc.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2024-Present Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Polymer Engineering Center, Department of Mechanical Engineering (Madison, WI)      

2023-2024  Part-time instructor, Tufts University, Department of Biomedical Engineering (Medford, MA)                                       

EDUCATION & TRAINING

2020 – 2024  Research Fellow, Harvard Medical School & Brigham and Women’s Hospital (Cambridge, MA)

2016 – 2020   Postdoctoral Associate/Research Scientist II, Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, GA)

2011 –2016  Ph.D. in Polymer Chemistry and Physics, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Beijing, P.R. China)

2007– 2011  B. Eng. in Polymer Science and Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology (Beijing, P.R. China) 

 

HONORS & AWARDS

  • Highly Cited Researcher in the field of Cross-Field, Web of Science (2025)
  • World’s Top 2% Scientists for the year 2025, Stanford/Elsevier (2025)
  • Inaugural Class of CASAAA Outstanding Alumni,  CASAAA (2025)

  • ACS PMSE Distinguished Poster Nominee, Orlando, FL (2019)

  • SPN Poster Prize, Georgia Tech (2018)

  • 10th Feng Xinde Polymer Prize for the Best Paper, ELSEVIER (2015)

  • Outstanding Young Researcher Award, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (2015)

  • Jin Jian Young Scientist Scholarship, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (2014)

  • Merit Student, Chinese Academy of Sciences (2012)

  • National Scholarship for Graduate Students, China (2012)

  • Outstanding Student Cadres, Chinese Academy of Sciences (2012)

  • Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis, Beijing University of Chemical Technology (2011)