Dr. Shiming Zhang is currently an Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE) of the University of Hong Kong (HKU), leading the wearable, intelligent and soft electronics (WISE) research group. He is also currently an affiliated faculty at the Terasaki Institute of UCLA. Before joining HKU, he spent three years at UCLA as a postdoctoral scholar, group leader (on bioelectronics), and finally an affiliated faculty member. He obtained his Ph.D. degree (Best Thesis Award) from École Polytechnique, Université de Montréal, Canada, and B.S./M.S. degree (Outstanding Graduates) from Jilin University, China. He was recognized as a “Rising Star” on bioelectronics by Advanced Science (2022) and an“Emerging Investigator” by the Journal of Materials Chemistry C (2022). He was awarded the prestigious title of “Vanier Canada Scholar” by the Canada Federal Government, “Outstanding International Student” by the Quebec Government, and “Outstanding Student Abroad”
EDUCATION
Postdoc, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Ph.D., University of Montreal, Canada
B.Engr & M.Eng, Jilin University, China
RESEARCH, TEACHING, or OTHER INTERESTS
Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Analytical Chemistry, Mechanical Engineering
6889
Scholar Citations
47
Scholar h-index
77
Scholar i10-index
RECENT SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS
A skin-affinitive organic electrochemical transistor based on all-hydrogel design for wearable biocomputing S Dai, X Chen, B Cui, W Lin, X Tian, X Zhang, I Pang, H Huang, D Liu, ... 2026
An AI‐embedded, Wearable Dual Closed‐Loop Insulin Delivery System for Precision Diabetes Management X He, W Huang, W Lin, B Cui, X Tian, J Bai, D Liu, I Pang, H Huang, S Lin, ... Advanced Materials, e14945 , 2026 2026 Citations: 2
Pruning random resistive memory for optimizing analog AI Y Li, S Wang, Y Zhao, S Wang, B Wang, W Zhang, Y He, N Lin, B Cui, ... Nature Communications , 2026 2026 Citations: 1
On the Molecular Diffusion Dynamics Between Subcutaneous Tissue and Microneedles for Wearable Continuous Glucose Monitoring W Lin, B Cui, X He, S Tu, S Dai, X Zhang, I Pang, X Chen, J Zhu, S Zhang Advanced NanoBiomed Research, e202500302 , 2026 2026
A stretchable continuous glucose monitor for skin-conformable wound management B Cui, I Pang, S Dai, X Chen, D Liu, X Tian, W Lin, J Bai, X Zhang, ... Biosensors and Bioelectronics 298 (11834), 118345 , 2026 2026
Improving the Skin‐Conformability of Wearable Continuous Glucose Monitors With Synthetic Hydrogel Electrodes B Cui, S Dai, I Pang, D Liu, X Zhang, J Bai, X Tian, S Zhang Advanced Science, e17501 , 2026 2026
The rise of hydrogel transistors H Huang, X Chen, J Bai, D Liu, B Lüssem, GG Malliaras, S Zhang Nature Reviews Electrical Engineering 3 (1), 61-73 , 2026 2026 Citations: 3
Improving Long‐Term Glucose Prediction Accuracy with Uncertainty‐Estimated ProbSparse‐Transformer W Huang, N Fan, W Wang, J Wang, X Qi, S Zhang Advanced Intelligent Systems 7 (12), e202500235 , 2025 2025 Citations: 3
Increasing the dimensionality of transistors with hydrogels D Liu, J Bai, X Tian, Y Wang, B Cui, S Dai, W Lin, Z Shen, CK Lai, ... Science 390 (6775), 824-830 , 2025 2025 Citations: 21
An ultra-long acting insulin enables glucose-synchronised release Y Zhang, J Zhang, K Ji, S Mei, C Su, Y Wang, G Xu, H Zhang, J Lin, ... bioRxiv, 2025.10. 12.681846 , 2025 2025 Citations: 1
Stretchable Hydrogel Optical Memristor for Photonic Near‐Sensor Neuromorphic Skin D Wang, S Dai, A Yuan, S Wei, X Tang, K Huang, B Cui, D Liu, L He, ... Advanced Functional Materials 35 (39), 2419937 , 2025 2025 Citations: 7
A fully-integrated flexible in-sensor computing circuit based on gel-gated organic electrochemical transistors X Tian, J Bai, D Liu, G Lu, S Zhang npj Flexible Electronics 9 (1), 90 , 2025 2025 Citations: 4
Electrically programmable organic in-display neuromorphic computing S Dai, D Wang, X Liu, B Cui, X Tian, D Liu, H Hu, P Guo, T Sun, J Zhang, ... National Science Review 12 (8), nwaf224 , 2025 2025 Citations: 5
Artificial Intelligence‐Enhanced, Closed‐Loop Wearable Systems Toward Next‐Generation Diabetes Management W Huang, I Pang, J Bai, B Cui, X Qi, S Zhang Advanced Intelligent Systems 7 (7), 2400822 , 2025 2025 Citations: 21
DANN: Diffractive Acoustic Neural Network for in-sensor computing system target at multi-biomarker diagnosis L He, N Lin, B Cui, X Zhang, S Zhang, Z Wang 2025 62nd ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC), 1-7 , 2025 2025
Rapid Customizing of Flexible OECTs Arrays for Low-Cost Biosensing and Biocomputing X Tian, J Bai, D Liu, S Zhang IEEE Electron Devices Technology & Manufacturing Conference (EDTM), 1-3 , 2025 2025
Extreme hydrogel bioelectronics X He, D Liu, B Cui, H Huang, S Dai, I Pang, Y Qiao, T Xu, S Zhang Advanced Functional Materials 34 (52), 2405896 , 2024 2024 Citations: 55
A wearable in-sensor computing platform based on stretchable organic electrochemical transistors Dingyao Liu, Xinyu Tian, Jing Bai, Shaocong Wang, Shilei Dai, Yan Wang ... Nature Electronics , 2024 2024 Citations: 110
Stretchable, enhancement-mode PEDOT: PSS organic electrochemical transistors Y Wang, D Liu, J Bai, X Tian, PT Lai, S Zhang Applied Physics Letters 125 (14) , 2024 2024 Citations: 7
闭环胰岛素输送系统的研究进展 X Wei, X Zhang, Y Wang, X Wei, J Zhang, K Ji, S Zhang, Z Gu, J Wang Chinese Journal of Modern Applied Pharmacy , 2024 2024
MOST CITED SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS
Three-dimensional printing of metals for biomedical applications J Ni, H Ling, S Zhang*, Z Wang, Z Peng, C Benyshek, R Zan, AK Miri, Z Li, ... Materials Today Bio 3, 100024 , 2019 2019 Citations: 352
Room‐Temperature‐Formed PEDOT: PSS Hydrogels Enable Injectable, Soft, and Healable Organic Bioelectronics S Zhang*, Y Chen, H Liu, Z Wang, H Ling, C Wang, J Ni, BC Saltik, ... Advanced Materials, 1904752 , 2019 2019 Citations: 349
Self‐Healing Hydrogel Bioelectronics Z Li, J Lu, T Ji, Y Xue, L Zhao, K Zhao, B Jia, B Wang, J Wang, S Zhang, ... Advanced Materials, 2306350 , 2024 2024 Citations: 296
Gelatin methacryloyl microneedle patches for minimally invasive extraction of skin interstitial fluid J Zhu, X Zhou, HJ Kim, M Qu, X Jiang, KJ Lee, L Ren, Q Wu, C Wang, ... Small 16 (16), 1905910 , 2020 2020 Citations: 261
Solvent-induced changes in PEDOT: PSS films for organic electrochemical transistors S Zhang, P Kumar, AS Nouas, L Fontaine, H Tang, F Cicoira* APL Materials 3 (1), 014911 , 2015 2015 Citations: 255
Gelatin Methacryloyl‐Based Tactile Sensors for Medical Wearables Z Li, S Zhang*, Y Chen, H Ling, L Zhao, G Luo, X Wang, MC Hartel, H Liu, ... Advanced Functional Materials, 2003601 , 2020 2020 Citations: 246
Billm: Pushing the limit of post-training quantization for llms W Huang, Y Liu, H Qin, Y Li, S Zhang, X Liu, M Magno, X Qi arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.04291 , 2024 2024 Citations: 220
Flexible patch with printable and antibacterial conductive hydrogel electrodes for accelerated wound healing C Wang, X Jiang, HJ Kim, S Zhang, X Zhou, Y Chen, H Ling, Y Xue, ... Biomaterials 285, 121479 , 2022 2022 Citations: 210
A patch of detachable hybrid microneedle depot for localized delivery of mesenchymal stem cells in regeneration therapy KJ Lee, Y Xue, J Lee, HJ Kim, Y Liu, P Tebon, E Sarikhani, W Sun, ... Advanced Functional Materials 30 (23), 2000086 , 2020 2020 Citations: 183
Melanin-based flexible supercapacitors P Kumar, E Di Mauro, S Zhang, A Pezzella, F Soavi, C Santato, F Cicoira* Journal of Materials Chemistry C 4 (40), 9516-9525 , 2016 2016 Citations: 181
Patterning of stretchable organic electrochemical transistors S Zhang, E Hubis, G Tomasello, G Soliveri, P Kumar, F Cicoira* Chemistry of Materials 29 (7), 3126-3132 , 2017 2017 Citations: 179
Water‐Enabled Healing of Conducting Polymer Films S Zhang, F Cicoira* Advanced Materials 29 (40), 1703098 , 2017 2017 Citations: 178
Biodegradable β ‐Cyclodextrin Conjugated Gelatin Methacryloyl Microneedle for Delivery of Water‐Insoluble Drug X Zhou, Z Luo, A Baidya, H Kim, C Wang, X Jiang, M Qu, J Zhu, L Ren, ... Advanced healthcare materials 9 (11), 2000527 , 2020 2020 Citations: 165
Autonomic self‐healing of PEDOT: PSS achieved via polyethylene glycol addition Y Li, X Li, S Zhang, L Liu, N Hamad, SR Bobbara, D Pasini, F Cicoira Advanced Functional Materials 30 (30), 2002853 , 2020 2020 Citations: 147
Non-transdermal microneedles for advanced drug delivery KJ Lee, MJ Goudie, P Tebon, W Sun, Z Luo, J Lee, S Zhang, K Fetah, ... Advanced drug delivery reviews 165, 41-59 , 2020 2020 Citations: 136
Stretchable e-skin and transformer enable high-resolution morphological reconstruction for soft robots D Hu, F Giorgio-Serchi, S Zhang, Y Yang Nature Machine Intelligence 5 (3), 261-272 , 2023 2023 Citations: 131
Harnessing the wide-range strain sensitivity of bilayered PEDOT: PSS films for wearable health monitoring H Liu, S Zhang, Z Li, TJ Lu, H Lin, Y Zhu, S Ahadian, S Emaminejad, ... Matter 4 (9), 2886-2901 , 2021 2021 Citations: 121
Hydrogel‐enabled transfer‐printing of conducting polymer films for soft organic bioelectronics S Zhang, H Ling, Y Chen, Q Cui, J Ni, X Wang, MC Hartel, X Meng, ... Advanced Functional Materials 30 (6), 1906016 , 2020 2020 Citations: 120
Biofabrication of endothelial cell, dermal fibroblast, and multilayered keratinocyte layers for skin tissue engineering NR Barros, HJ Kim, MJ Gouidie, KJ Lee, P Bandaru, EA Banton, ... Biofabrication 13 (3), 035030 , 2021 2021 Citations: 118
Water stability and orthogonal patterning of flexible micro-electrochemical transistors on plastic S Zhang, E Hubis, C Girard, P Kumar, J DeFranco, F Cicoira* Journal of Materials Chemistry C 4 (7), 1382-1385 , 2016 2016 Citations: 118
