Dr. Liangbing Hu is the Carol and Douglas Melamed Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering & Materials Science at Yale University, where he also serves as the founding director of the Yale Center for Materials Innovation. He joined Yale’s faculty in July 2024 after serving as a Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland, College Park. 

Dr. Hu’s research group specializes in materials innovation, device integration, and advanced manufacturing, with current projects in electrified ultrahigh-temperature synthesis, next-generation energy storage beyond lithium-ion, and novel wood nanotechnologies.  

He has authored ~ 500 peer-reviewed publications, including more than 10 articles in Science and Nature, with an h-index of 200. His work has been recognized with several prestigious awards, including the ACS Anselme Payen Award, the MRS Medal, five R&D 100 Awards, and the Nature Spinoff Prize. He is a Fellow of the Materials Research Society (MRS) and the American Chemical Society (ACS). 

Dr. Hu earned a B.S. in Physics from the University of Science and Technology of China in 2002 and a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 2007. Based on his doctoral research on carbon nanotube thin films, he became a founding scientist at Unidym, a Silicon Valley startup specializing in printed electronics. From 2009 to 2011, Dr. Hu completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University. In 2011, he joined the University of Maryland, where he launched his independent academic career.