Welcome to Xiong Research Group at ShanghaiTech!
The Wireless and Smart Bio-electronics (WiSe) lab at ShanghaiTech is an interdisciplinary lab that seeks to develop bioelectronic tools and stimulus-responsive materials to address the scientific and technical challenges faced by personal and clinical healthcare. Our research focuses on bio-electronic signal communication and multimodal devices for sensing and stimulation. We integrate these technologies in bioelectronic systems to endow healthcare procedures with digital intelligence.
Office: Room 510, School of Biomedical Engineering, 393 Middle Huaxia Road, Pudong, Shanghai, 201210
Email: xiongze@shanghaitech.edu.cn
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Postdoc Position Opening !
Our joint postdoc program with UESTC is available, which can offer > 350,000 RMB annual salary, Link.
If you are interested in developing cutting-edge and multi-disciplinary healthtech that can benefit the society, please reach us via email (xiongze@shanghaitech.edu.cn) without hesitation.
The applicant should provide a CV as well as a short research plan for potential projects at WiSe lab. The background of researchers is not a limitation as long as your skillset can find a niche in healthtech (if not sure, please feel free to chat with us via email).
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Recent News
Nov. 2025 Dr. Xiong delivered an Invited Talk at Youth Academic Seminar of NSFC (T03).
Nov. 11 2025 Dr. Xiong hosted an online iCANX Youth Talk, inviting Xiao Yang from Johns Hopkins University and Pengju Li from The University of Chicago to share their inspiring works.
Oct. 2025 Dr. Xiong won the Best Presentation Award at The 1st Biomimetic Materials Chemistry Conference.
Sep. 2025 We invited Prof. Metin Sitti from Koç University as a distinguished speaker for ShanghaiTech BME Seminar Series.
Aug. 2025 Our work on printable high-resolution stretchable bioelectronics was selected as the cover work and the JMCC Emerging Investigator Award, Link.
Jul. 2025 Our lab is awarded Young Scientists Fund B (2 million CNY) [formerly Excellent Young Scientists Fund] from NSFC.
Jul. 2025 Dr. Xiong hosted an online iCANX Youth Talk, inviting Simiao Niu from Rutgers University and Jinghua Li from Ohio State University to share their inspiring works, Link.
Jul. 2025 The collaborative Mega Review of Micro/Nanorobots was published by ACS Nano.
Jul. 2025 Our undergraduate teams earned a second prize and two third prizes at the 10th Biomedical Engineering Innovation Design Competition for College Students, Link.
Jun. 2025 Dr. Xiong organized an online iCANX Youth Talk, inviting Yuxin Liu from National University of Singapore, Yuanwen Jiang from University of Pennsylvania, and Yeongin Kim from University of Cincinnati to share their inspiring works, Link.
May 2025 Dr. Xiong delivered an Invited Talk at School of Medicine UESTC.
Apr. 2025 Dr. Xiong delivered an Invited Talk at Med-X Young Investigator Forum, Link.
Feb. 2025 Dr. Xiong was invited to serve as the Youth Editorial Board Member of The Innovation Materials (a journal of Innovation Press).
Feb. 2025 Congrats to Yao who will kick off his Ph.D. journey with Prof. Anqi Zhang @ Caltech!
Dec. 2024 Dr. Xiong was invited to serve as the Youth Editorial Board Member of FlexMat (a journal of Wiley).
Dec. 2024 Dr. Xiong delivered an Invited Talk at The 2nd Med-X Conference, Link.
Nov. 2024 Congrats to Yuxi who will conduct her research as a visiting student with Prof. Cunjiang Yu @ UIUC!
Oct. 2024 Dr. Xiong served as a Organizing Committe Member and Session Chair of National Conference on Electronic Materials and Devices, Link.
Oct. 2024 Dr. Xiong served as a Session Chair of ShanghaiTech Annual Symposium on Biomedical Engineering, Link.
Oct. 2024 Dr. Xiong was elevated to IEEE Senior Member.
Aug. 2024 Dr. Xiong served as a Session Chair and delivered an Invited Talk at The 2nd Symposium on Advanced Materials and Smart Sensing Devices.
Aug. 2024 Dr. Xiong delivered an Invited Talk at SES Annual Technical Meeting, Link.
Aug. 2024 The team led by our undergraduate students won the Bronze Prize of 14th Challenge Cup (Shanghai). Congrats!! Link.
Jul. 2024 Dr. Xiong was selected as Mingzhu Elite Talent.
Jul. 2024 Dr. Xiong was selected as iCANX Young Scientist Award Finalist to present recent works at the iCANX Davos Summit, Link.
Jun. 2024 Dr. Xiong was invited to serve as a Founder Member of the Brain-Computer Interface and Brain-Computer System Committee of CAA.
May. 2024 Dr. Xiong was invited to serve as a Session Chair for Conference of Micro and Nano Technology for Healthcare Innovation, Wuhan, China, Link.
May. 2024 Dr. Xiong was invited as a panelist of iCANX Talks, Link.
Apr. 2024 Dr. Xiong was invited to serve as the Youth Editorial Board Member of Med-X (a journal of Springer Nature and Shanghai Jiao Tong University), Link.
Mar. 2024 Dr. Xiong was invited as a speaker of Swissnex Future Hospital Event, Link.
Exclusive Interview by Swissnex, Link.
Mar. 2024 Dr. Xiong was invited as a speaker of iCANX Youth Talks, Link.
Dec. 2023 Dr. Xiong was selected as 2023 Emerging Investigator of China (Outstanding Achievement Award), Link.
Dec. 2023 We invited Prof. Chwee Teck LIM from NUS as a distinguished speaker for ShanghaiTech BME Seminar Series.
Nov. 2023 Our poster about flexible wound bioelectronics won Best Poster Award (2nd Prize) at Nature Conference.
Oct. 2023 The collaborative work of magnetically navigated optoelectronic hybrid microrobots for optically targeted non-genetic neuromodulation was published by Advanced Materials.
Aug. 2023 Our work of near-ideal aero-elastic pressure sensor for wireless intracranial pressure monitoring was published by Nature Materials.
Highlighted by Matter (Cell Press).
Aug. 2023 Dr. Xiong was selected as Swissnex Fellow, State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI, Switzerland).
Aug. 2023 Dr. Xiong received 2023 MINE Young Scientist Award, Microsystems & Nanoengineering (Nature Publishing Group).
July. 2023 The collaborative work of implant-to-implant wireless networking metamaterials textiles was published by Nature Communications.
July. 2023 Our work of non-linear resonator potentially for ultrasensitive biosensors was published by Science Advances.
Jun. 2023 The collaborative work of battery-free and AI-enabled multiplexed sensor patches for wound monitoring was published by Science Advances.
Apr. 2023 We invited Prof. Yong Zhang from NUS as a distinguished speaker for ShanghaiTech BME Seminar Series.
Dec. 2022 The poster “A wireless and flexible infection sensing tag based on bio-inspired DNA hydrogel” won Best Poster Award, The 4th International Conference on Flexible Electronics.
Oct. 2022 Our work of self-driven magnetorobots for scalable removal of micro/nanoplastics was published and highlighted by Science Advances.
Media Highlights:
People’s Daily, Link;
XinhuaNet, Link;
ChinaDaily, Link;
ECNS, Link;
China.org, Link.
Apr. 2022 The collaborative work of digitally-embroidered liquid metal electronic textiles was published by Nature Communications.
Nov. 2021 Our work of wireless and battery-free wound infection monitoring enabled by DNA hydrogel was published by Science Advances.
Highlighted by Matter (Cell Press).
Media Highlights:
AAAS, Nov. 2021, Wearable sensor detects wound infections before they are visible;
Reuters, Nov. 2021, Wearable sensor detects presymptomatic bacterial infections in diabetic foot ulcer swabs, mice;
Scientific American, Nov. 2021, Gel-based sensor continuously monitors wounds for infection;
AIChE, Jan. 2022, Wearable Sensor Provides Early Alert for Wound Infections;
STAT, Nov. 2021, A new, gel-based wearable can catch infections before the naked eye can;
Biospectrum, Nov. 2021, Singapore develops wound infection sensor based on DNA hydrogel;
Medical Xpress, Nov. 2021, A gel-based sensor that detects wound infections.
Oct. 2021 Our work of wireless sensing (WiSe) sutures capable of directly monitoring deep surgical wounds was published by Nature Biomedical Engineering and selected as the cover work. News & Views, Nat. Biomed. Eng., Oct. 2021.
July. 2021 Our collaborative work of “wireless respiration monitoring using a flexible sensor and bistable circuit” won
Best paper award (2nd Place),IEEE-EMBS International Conference on Wearable and Implantable Body Sensor Networks (BSN).
Nov. 2020 The oral presentation won Best Poster Award (2nd Place), 9th MRS-S Conference on Advanced Materials, 2020 (Selected as featured oral presentation, 3 out of 125 posters from MIT, Yale, Penn State, EPFL, ETH, NUS, NTU, A*STAR etc.)
Jun. 2020 The collaborative review of Nontransient Silk Bioelectronics was published by Small Methods.
Mar. 2020 Our work of highly-efficient and bio-compatible light-driven microrobot for potential biomedical applications was published by ACS Nano.
Sep. 2019 The collaborative work of polyelectrolyte-coated microswimmer with advanced tolerance to ionic body fluid was published by Nature Communications.
Sep. 2018 Our review of light-driven micro/nanomotor as a promising biomedical tool was published by Accounts of Chemical Research.
Nov. 2017 The collaborative work of orthogonal visible-light-driven microswimmer was published by Nature Communications.
Oct. 2017 Our work of electrochemical redox couple assisted graphene hybrid photodetector was published by NPG Asia Materials.
Jun. 2017 Our work of light-driven silicon nanotor based on tunable photonic structures was published by Advanced Materials.
Oct. 2016 Our work of the first light-navigated micromotor was published by Nature Nanotechnology.
Media Highlights:
EurekAlert, Link;
Asian Scientist, Link;
ChinaDaily, Link;
ScienceDaily, Link;
Phys.org, Link.
Scientific American, Link.
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