• 12/2023 Grace Woods has successfully completed her Ph.D. in Applied Physics. Congratulations, Dr. Woods!!
• 11/2023 Elizabeth Schmidt has been selected as a TIME Fellow. Congratulations, Elizabeth!
• 09/2023 Zihao Ou received the Best Mentor Award for the Stanford Bio-X Undergraduate Summer Research Program. Congratulations, Zihao!
• 09/2023 Nick Rommelfanger received a poster award for his presentation at the Stanford Bio-X Interdisciplinary Initiatives Seed Grants Program Poster Session. Congratulations, Nick!
• 09/2023 Prof. Hong has been nominated and chosen for the 2022-2023 Teaching Honor Roll by Stanford Tau Beta Pi (TBP), the Stanford chapter of a nationwide honor society that encompasses all engineering disciplines.
• 06/2023 Xiang Wu has successfully completed his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering and has been recognized for his exceptional performance by receiving the John Stephens Jr. Memorial Award and the Evan J. Reed Memorial Award. Congratulations on these outstanding achievements, Dr. Wu!!
• 05/2023 Lauren Cooper receives the NIH T32 Biotechnology Training Grant. Congratulations, Lauren!
• 05/2023 Han Cui receives the Stanford Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellowship (SIGF). Congratulations, Han!
• 04/2023 Prof. Hong gives an invited seminar at the Bioengineering Department of UC Riverside. Many thanks to Prof. Bahman Anvari for the invite!
• 03/2023 Prof. Hong gives an invited Neurophotonics Seminar at Boston University. Many thanks to Prof. Chen Yang for the invite!
• 03/2023 Prof. Hong gives an invited seminar at Massachusetts General Hospital of Harvard Medical School. Many thanks to Profs. Hak Soo Choi and Georges El Fakhri for the invite!
• 02/2023 Prof. Hong gives an invited talk at the 3rd Optogenetics Australia Meeting. Many thanks to Prof. Nick Spencer for the invite!
• 02/2023 Prof. Hong gives an invited talk at the 20th Annual World Congress of SBMT. Many thanks to Prof. Jennifer Treweek for the invite!
• 01/2023 Prof. Hong gives an invited Department Seminar at Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences in University of Ottawa. Many thanks to Prof. Eva Hemmer for the invite!
• 12/2022 Xiang Wu wins the Gold Award of the MRS Graduate Student Awards. Congratulations, Xiang!
• 12/2022 Prof. Hong gives an invited seminar at the Materials Science and Engineering department of the University of Maryland. Many thanks to Profs. JC Zhao, You Zhou, and Carlos Rios Ocampo for the invitation!
• 11/2022 Prof. Hong gives an invited talk at the Brain Imaging in the Bay Conference at UC Berkeley. Many thanks to Prof. Markita Landry for the invitation!
• 10/2022 Xiang Wu is selected as a finalist for the 2022 MRS Fall Meeting Graduate Student Awards. Congratulations, Xiang!
• 10/2022 Prof. Hong gives an invited seminar at the Science/TCCI Conference on Neuromodulation and Brain-Machine Interface co-organized by the Science magazine. Many thanks to Drs. Yan Li and Peter Stern for the invitation!
• 10/2022 Prof. Hong gives an invited seminar at the Materials Science and Engineering department of Cornell University. Many thanks to Profs. Yu Zhong, Andrej Singer, and Lara Estroff for inviting and hosting my visit!
• 09/2022 Prof. Hong gives an invited CMU Neural Engineering Seminar. Many thanks to Prof. Bin He for the invitation!
• 09/2022 Prof. Hong gives an invited seminar at the Stewart Blusson Quantum Matter Institute of the University of British Columbia. Many thanks to Prof. Andrew Potter for this invitation!
• 09/2022 Prof. Hong gives an invited talk at the Asilomar Bioelectronics Symposium. Many thanks to Profs. Marco Rolandi, Alex Noy, Sahika Inal, and Jonathan Rivnay for the invitation!
• 07/2022 Prof. Hong gives an invited talk at the Monitoring Molecules in Neuroscience (MMiN) international conference at Lyon, France. Many thanks to Profs. Zhenpeng Qin and Paul Slesinger for the invitation!
• 06/2022 Prof. Hong gives an invited talk at the 4th Annual Symposium of Biomedical Engineering at the University of British Columbia. Many thanks to Prof. Dena Shahriari for this invitation!
• 06/2022 Sa Cai is selected as a 2022 Stanford Bio-X Graduate Fellow. Congratulations, Sa!
• 05/2022 Prof. Hong gives an invited talk at the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Retreat.
• 05/2022 Prof. Hong gives an invited talk at the inaugural Rice Neuroengineering Initiative Conference. Many thanks to Prof. Lan Luan for this invitation!
• 05/2022 Nicholas Rommelfanger receives the 2022 Centennial Teaching Assistant Award for his outstanding contributions as a TA to MATSCI 384: Materials Advances in Neurotechnology. Congratulations, Nick!
• 05/2022 Kenneth Brinson is admitted to the prestigious Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP). Congratulations, Kenneth!
• 04/2022 Prof. Hong gives an invited departmental seminar in the Department of Bioengineering at UCLA. Many thanks to Profs. Jun Chen and Song Li for this invitation!
• 04/2022 Carl Keck is awarded a NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. Congratulations, Carl!
• 01/2022 Dr. Zihao Ou is awarded the prestigious Wu Tsai Neuro Interdisciplinary Scholar Award. Congratulations, Zihao!
• 09/2021 Carl Keck receives the NSF NeuroTech Training Fellowship. Congratulations, Carl!
• 07/2021 Prof. Hong is selected as a 2021 Rita Allen Foundation Scholar. Congratulations to Guosong and The Hong Lab!
• 06/2021 Han Cui receives the 2021 Centennial Teaching Assistant Award. Congratulations, Han!
• 06/2021 Prof. Hong is awarded the Walter J. Gores Award for Excellence in Teaching, Stanford University’s highest honor for teaching. Congratulations to Guosong!
• 05/2021 Nicholas Rommelfanger is selected as a 2021 Stanford Bio-X Graduate Fellow. Congratulations, Nick!
• 03/2021 Nicholas Rommelfanger is awarded a NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. Congratulations, Nick!
• 01/2021 Prof. Hong receives the NSF CAREER Award. Congratulations to Guosong and The Hong Lab!
• 11/2020 Prof. Hong gives an invited talk at the Neurotech 2020 Symposium of MIT.
• 10/2020 Xiang Wu receives the 2020 Sammy Kuo Award in Neuroscience. Congratulations, Xiang!
• 09/2020 Prof. Hong gives an invited department seminar at the Department of Biomedical Engineering of George Washington University.
• 08/2020 Xiang Wu is awarded the 2020 Baxter Young Investigator Award. Congratulations, Xiang!
• 08/2020 Grace Woods receives the NSF NeuroTech Training Fellowship. Congratulations, Grace!
• 08/2020 Prof. Hong wins a Science & PINS Prize for Neuromodulation. Congratulations to Guosong and The Hong Lab!
• 06/2020 Xiang Wu receives the 2020 Centennial Teaching Assistant Award. Congratulations, Xiang!
• 05/2020 Xiang Wu is selected as a 2020 Stanford Graduate Student Fellow. Congratulations, Xiang!
• 09/2019 Prof. Hong gives an invited department seminar at the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering of Case Western University.
• 06/2019 Prof. Hong is selected as one of “35 Innovators Under 35” by MIT Technology Review. Congratulations to Guosong and The Hong Lab!