Jun Chen

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
BIOENGINEERING

4121H Engineering V

Email: jun.chen@ucla.edu
Phone: (310) 794-5550
Fax: (310) 794-5956

Websites

Chen Group Website

RESEARCH AND INTERESTS

Soft matter
Condensed matter physics
Soft bioelectronics
Smart textiles
Body area networks
Personalized healthcare
Energy and sustainability

NOTABLE PUBLICATIONS

[Google Scholar] and [Web of Science]

IN THE NEWS

9 UCLA Engineers Named to 2024 List of World’s Most Influential Researchers | UCLA, 11/2024
AAASE Honors Steven Chu, Gang Chen, Jun Chen, and Haotian Wang with Prestigious Awards | AAASE, 10/2024
Novel liquid acoustic sensor mimics whale melon to recognize voices in noisy environments | Tech Xplore, October 2024
LogOn: Device may help disabled vocal cords speak again | Voice of America, 7/2024
Injectable and retrievable soft electronics | Nature Materials, 5/2024
Injectable liquid bioelectronics | Nature Reviews Bioengineering, 5/2024
A magnetic liquid makes for an injectable sensor in living tissue | Nature, 5/2024
Wearable Patch Offers Voice to the Voiceless | ASME, 4/2024
The Happy Pod: The Centenarian Stargazer | BBC Global News Podcast, 4/2024
Elastic Patch Tech Helps Vocally Impaired Speak | IEEE Spectrum, 3/2024
AI-Assisted Throat Patch Can Help People with Voice Disorders Speak, Researchers Say | FirstAlert4, 3/2024
New Wearable Neck Patch Invention Allows People to Speak with no Vocal Cords | The Jerusalem Post, 3/2024
New Self-Powered Throat Patch Could Help People Speak without Vocal Cords | Stat News, 3/2024
A Flexible Patch Could Help People with Voice Disorders Talk | The Economist, 3/2024
New Self-Powered Throat Patch Could Help People Speak without Vocal Cords | Stat News, 3/2024
New Self-Powered Throat Patch Could Help People Speak without Vocal Cords | Live Science, 3/2024
Speaking Without Vocal Cords, Thanks to a New AI-assisted Wearable Device | UCLA News, 03/2024
UCLA Bioengineers Develop Artificial Skin to Outfit Underwater Robots with a Sense of Touch | UCLA News, 02/2024
UCLA Bioengineering Student Receives 2024 AHA Predoctoral Fellowship | UCLA News, 01/2024
Robot with sense of touch grabs ocean trash without harming sea life | NewScientist, 01/2024
Engineering professors honored by Office of Naval Research | UCLA News, 12/2023
8 UCLA Engineers Among World’s Most Influential Researchers | UCLA Engineering News, 11/2023
Engineering Student and Faculty Recognized for Innovation and Mentorship| UCLA Engineering News, 10/2023
Looking Backward, Moving Forward: Four Invited Works Celebrating Four Years of Matter | Matter, 07/ 2023
Patch uses nanomagnets to detect muscle movement through the skin | Phys.org, 07/ 2023
This patch uses nanomagnets to detect muscle movement through the skin | Science Daily, 07/ 2023
Challenges in Making Smart Clothing Accessible for Healthcare | Fiber Journal, 02/2023
Jun Chen receives young investigator grant for sleep disturbance research | UCLA News,12/2022
UCLA Engineer Receives Young Investigator Grant for Smart Textile Research on Sleep Disturbance| UCLA News, 12/2022
Prof. Jun Chen Received the 2022 iCANX Young Scientist Award | UCLA Engineering News,12/2022
Nearly 40 UCLA scholars are among the most highly cited researchers in their fields| UCLA News,11/2022
A Self-Powered HMI That’s Also Waterproof | IEEE Spectrum, 08/2022
Encrypted Human-Machine Interface Technology Reveals User Physiology | Communications of the ACM, 08/2022
Human-machine Interfaces Work Underwater, Generate Their Own Power | Innovations Report, 08/2022
Two UCLA Samueli School of Engineering Assistant Professors Receive Young Investigator Awards |UCLA News, 06/2022
Smart Textiles for Wearable Healthcare and Sustainability Explained |UCLA News, 03/2022
UCLA Bioengineers Develop New Class of Human-Powered Bioelectronics | Magnetics Magazine, 02/2022
Materials Today Rising Star Award 2021| UCLA BioEngineering News, 01/2022
43 UCLA scholars among most highly cited researchers for 2021| UCLA News, 11/2021
Magnetoelastic material sustainably powers health monitors using body movement | Physics World, 10/2021
Developing Human-Powered Bioelectronics | AZO Materials, 10/2021
Bioengineers develop a new class of human-powered bioelectronics| Electronic Products & Technology, 10/2021
Bioelectronic patch harnesses magnetoelastic effect | Eureka! Magazine, 10/2021
Bioengineers Develop New Class of Giant Magnetoelastic Effect Human-Powered Bioelectronics | SciTech Daily, 09/2021
UCLA Bioengineers Develop New Class of Human-Powered Bioelectronics | Semiconductor Digest, 09/2021
Bioengineers develop a new class of human-powered bioelectronics | Science Daily, 09/2021
UCLA Bioengineers Develop New Class of Human-Powered Bioelectronics|UCLA News, 09/2021
Three Assistant Professors Named 2021-22 UCLA Hellman Fellows | UCLA News, 08/2021
Catch up with wearables expert Jun Chen | UCLA TDG Innovation Magazine, 07/2021
Breakthroughs and Discoveries by UCLA Chancellor Gene Block | UCLA News, 03/2021
Science stories of 2020 you won't want to miss! | Ontario Science Centre, 03/2021
Nine UCLA Engineering Faculty Named Among World’s Most Influential Researchers| UCLA News, 11/2020
2019 Highly Cited Researchers Announced| UCLA News, 11/2019
Bioengineering Student Receives National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship | UCLA News, 08/2020
Amazing new glove can translate sign language into spoken words in real time | Yahoo, 08/2020
Glove developed by UCLA researchers translates American Sign Language to speech | Daily Bruin, 08/2020
These gloves let your ‘hear’ sign language | Fast Company, 07/2020
High-tech glove to translate sign language into speech in real time | HappyMag.tv, 09/2020
UCLA Scientist Develops Gloves That Translate Sign Language | NPR, 07/2020
Wearable-tech glove translates sign language into speech in real time | UCLA News, 06/2020
This new high-tech glove translates sign language into speech in real time | CNN, 06/2020
Wearable-tech glove translates sign language into speech in real time | Tech Xplore, 06/2020
New gloves can translate sign language | Fox News, 07/2020
Sign language helps the hearing impaired communicate | KNX1070 News Radio, 06/2020
New glove can translate sign language instantly through an app, researchers say | The Sacramento Bee, 07/2020
Wearable-tech glove translates sign language into speech in real time | Science Daily, 06/2020
UCLA Engineers Develop Fabric that Harvests AND Stores Energy | UCLA News, 03/2020
Thermogalvanic hydrogel cools down electronic devices | Physics World, 06/2020
A new way to cool down electronic devices, recover waste heat | Science Daily, 04/2020
A new way to cool down electronic devices, recover waste heat | AAAS and EurekAlert!, 04/2020
A new way to cool down electronic devices, recover waste heat | American Chemical Society, 04/2020

EDUCATION

Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016
Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University, 2019

AWARDS AND RECOGNITION

2025
BMES CMBE Rising Star Award
2024
Asian American Academy of Science and Engineering (AAASE) Rising Star Award
Inaugural WACBE-BMES Young Investigator Award
ASME Rising Star of Mechanical Engineering
Stephanie L Kwolek Prize (Royal Society of Chemistry Materials Chemistry Horizon Prize)
UCLA Innovation Fellows
NIH UCLA CTSI Core Voucher Award
BME Rising Stars (The 18th International Conference on Biomedical Engineering)
2023
V. M. Watanabe Excellence in Research Award (1 Faculty Each Year in UCLA Samueli School of Engineering)
UCLA Faculty Mentor Award (1 out of the 16 Selected UCLA Faculty; the only 2 in UCLA Engineering)
Highly Cited Researchers in the Web of Science (1 out of 8 UCLA Engineering Faculty)
Georgia Tech Alumni 40 Under 40
Shu Chien Early Career Award (1 Pre-Tenure Faculty Per Year Across 10 UC Campuses)
NIH UCLA CTSI KL2 Translational Science Award
NIH UCLA CTSI Core Voucher Award
Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award
American Heart Association Transformational Project Award
American Heart Association Innovative Project Award
American Heart Association's Second Century Early Faculty Independence Award
Advanced Healthcare Materials Rising Star
Chinese Association for Biomaterials Young Investigator Award
Biosensors Best Paper Award
Advanced Materials Technologies Rising Star
Nano Research Young Innovator Award
Highly Cited Researchers in the Web of Science
The World’s Top 2% Scientists by Stanford University (Ranked 7006 Globally across 22 Fields)
2022
Thrice Highlighted in the Promotional Video “UCLA Samueli 75 Years in the Making” 2022
Distinguished Keynote Speakers of the 3rd KAIST Emerging Materials e-Symposium
Brain & Behavior Research Foundation Young Investigator Award
Selected Participant of US Frontiers of Engineering Symposium, National Academy of Engineering
ACS PMSE Young Investigator Award
iCANX Young Scientist Award
Microsystems & Nanoengineering Young Scientist Award
Highly Cited Researchers in the Web of Science (1 out of 39 UCLA Faculty Members)
The World’s Top 2% Scientists by Stanford University (Ranked 9234 Globally across 22 Fields)
Fellow of the International Association of Advanced Materials
2021
Materials Today Rising Star Award
Advanced Materials Rising Star
UCLA Society of Hellman Fellows Award
Breakthroughs and Discoveries by UCLA Chancellor Gene Block
Thought Leaders by AZo Materials
Rising Leaders: Recognizing Talent Across The Life Sciences by In Vivo
Highly Cited Researchers in the Web of Science (1 out of 43 UCLA Faculty Members)
The World’s Top 2% Scientists by Stanford University (Ranked 14638 Globally across 22 Fields)
Innovating Health Outstanding Young Speaker, NUS
Vebleo Fellow
IAAM Scientist Medal
Interstellar Initiative by the New York Academy of Sciences
Journal of Materials Chemistry A Emerging Investigators Award
Chemical Communications Emerging Investigators Award
ACS Applied Energy Materials Early Career Investigators Award
Ranked the 2nd Most Influential Researcher Globally in Nanogenerator Field
2020
Okawa Foundation Research Award (7 in the U.S.)
ACS Nano Rising Stars Lectureship Award
Chemical Society Review Emerging Investigators Award
Top 10 Science Stories of 2020 by Ontario Science Centre
Altmetric Top 100 (out of 3.4 million works in 2020)
Highly Cited Researchers in the Web of Science (1 out of 9 UCLA Engineering Faculty Members)
The World’s Top 2% Scientists by Stanford University(Ranked 20514 Globally across 22 Fields)
Nanoscale Emerging Investigators Award
Frontiers in Chemistry, Rising Stars
Microsystems & Nanoengineering Outstanding Speakers Award
2019
Highly Cited Researchers in Web of Science(1 out of 12 UCLA Engineering Faculty)