Dr. Zhengwei Li is an Assistant Professor and Presidential Frontier Faculty Fellow in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the Cullen College of Engineering, with a joint appointment in the Tilman J. Fertitta Family College of Medicine at the University of Houston.

Prior to joining UH in Fall 2022, Dr. Li was a postdoctoral fellow working with Prof. John A. Rogers at the Querrey Simpson Institute for Bioelectronics at Northwestern University. He also completed a post-doctoral fellowship for the development of biohybrid robotics from the NSF Science and Technology Center-EBICS at UIUC. Dr. Li received his doctorate in mechanical engineering (with the highest honor) in 2017 from the University of Colorado Boulder. He earned his master’s degree from Zhejiang University and bachelor’s degree from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, both in China.

His research interests focus on the interface between human and machines to create novel materials, devices, and robotics for a wide range of healthcare and biomedical applications. The current research topics include Curvy wearable electronics, biohybrid living robotics (‘Bio-bots’), biomedical devices and instrumentations, bioelectronics neural interfaces, bioinspired & biohybrid systems, etc. His work has been published in numerous prestigious journals, including PNAS, Science Robotics, Nature Electronics, Science Advances, Nature Communications, Nature Protocols, Advanced Materials, Biomaterials, Biofabrication, Advanced Optical Materials, Scientific Reports, Nanotechnology, etc.