06/2022 Congratulations to Dr. Jia for promoting to associate professor with tenure!
05/2022 Congratulations to Jason for getting the best poster award in MRS Spring Meeting 2022.
06/2021 Congratulations to Dr. Jia for receiving an NIH R01 grant on "3D multifunctional deep brain interface for seizure detection and intervention".
06/2021 Congratulations to Dr. Jia for receiving an NIH R21 grant on " A robotic fiber platform for large area deep brain inerfacing".
05/2021 Congratulations to Shan Jiang for successfully passing her PhD defense! Shan will start her postdoc research in Stanford University in September 2021.
11/2020 Dr. Jia co-organized a symposium "F.FL02: Advanced Neural Interfacing Materials, Devices and Microsystems" in the 2020 Virtual MRS Spring/Fall Meeting & Exhibit.
11/2020 Congratulations to Shan Jiang et al. for their paper being published in Nature Communications! The title of the paper is: "Spatially expandable fiber-based probes as a multifunctional deep brain interface"
11/2020 Congratulations to Ziang Feng for successfully passing his PhD defense!
10/2020 Congratulations to Ziang for getting the Bindi Prasad Scholarship award!
09/2020 Congratulation to Jongwoon Kim (Jason) and Dr. Jia for their invited preview "From Space to Battlefield: A New Breed of Multifunctional Fiber Sheets for Extreme Environments" published in Matter.
03/2019 Congratulations to Dr. Jia for receiving the 3M Non-Tenured Faculty Award!
02/2019 Congratulations to Dr. Jia for receiving the NSF CAREER Award!
10/2018, Dr. Jia gave an invited talk in 3M Tech Forum on multimaterial multifunctional fibers.
08/2018 Dr. Jia teaches a new graduate level class ECE5984 Nanoelectronics.
08/2018 Joogwoon Kim, Demisha Porter, Natalia Marin, Steven M Parker, Xiyuan Li, Peter Kent joined the research group.
07/2018 Dr. Jia attended the AFFOA members only workshop in Boston, MA.
06/2018 Congratulations to Ana for graduating with a M.S. degree in ECE. She will go to Intel Inc. as an engineer.
06/2018 Congratulations to Kruthika for graduating with a M.S. degree in ECE. She will go to MIT as a PhD student.
06/2018 Congratulations to Kelly for graduating with a B.S. degree in ECE. She will go to Caltech as a PhD student.
Dr. Jia gave an invited talk at the New Materials for Medical Robotics workshop in the Hamlyn Symposium, Imperial College London, UK.
06/2018 Congratulations to Ning for graduating with a B.S. degree in ECE. She will stay in Virginia Tech as M.S. student.
06/2018 Congratulations to Chi for graduating with a M.Eng degree in ECE.
06/2018 Congratulations to Alex for graduating with a B.S. degree in ECE.
05/2018 Ziang Feng joined the research group.
03/2018 Congratulations to Dr. Jia for receiving the ICTAS Junior Faculty Award!
12/2017 Congratulations to Alex for being selected as a VMEC Summer Scholar!
12/2017 Congratulations to Shan for passing the PhD qualifying exam!!
11/2017, Dr. Jia chaired a session and gave an invited talk at the 8th International Conference and Exhibition on Lasers, Optics & Photonics, Las Vegas, NV.
08/2017, VT Daily runs a cover story of our work on fiber based neural interfaces "Slimming down, beefing up deep brain implants"
08/2017 Yujing Zhang joined the research group.
06/2017 Yuan and Shan's paper "Polymer Composite with Carbon Nanofibers Aligned during Thermal Drawing as a Microelectrode for Chronic Neural Interfaces" was accepted by ACS Nano.
06/2017 Alex joined the research group.
05/2017 Ning joined the research group.
04/2017 Dr. Jia gave an invited talk at Materials Research Society Spring conference in Phoenix, AZ. "Multimaterial Multifunctional Fibers for Electrical, Optical and Chemical Interrogation of Neural Circuits". Thank you to the organizers for the invitation!
03/2017 Kruthika joined the research group.
03/2017 Ana joined the research group.
03/2017 Li and Yuan's paper "Porous polymer optical fiber fabrication and potential biomedical application" was accepted by Optical Materials Express and selected as an Editor's Pick.
01/2017 Yuan's paper "One-step optogenetics with multifunctional flexible polymer fibers" was accepted by Nature Neuroscience. This paper was in collaboration with Dr. Anikeeva and Dr. Fink's groups at MIT.
01/2017 Congratulations to Kemaya for graduating with a B.S. degree in ECE. She will continue in the research group as a M.S. student.
10/2016 Dr. Jia gave an ECE graduate seminar at VT.
09/2016 Dr. Jia was invited to give a Mechanical Engineering seminar in Florida State University. Thank the organizers for the invitation!
08/2016 Shan joined the research group.
08/2016 Shaowei Wan joined the research group.
08/2016 Dr. Jia started teaching a new "Nanoelectronics" course in the ECE department.
07/2016 Dr. Jia spoke at the TechGirls camp for young women from North Africa and the Middle East.
05/2016 Our multimaterial fiber drawing tower is officially constructed at the Center for Photonics Technology (CPT), and a ribbon cutting event was held to celebrate.
04/2016 Dr. Jia gave a seminar presentation at MSE department at VT. Thank you to the organizer for the invitation!
04/2016 Virginia Tech and partners were selected for the AFFOA, a $317 million institute to spur innovation in fibers and textiles. Dr. Jia, Dr. Anbo Wang, and Dr. Luke Lester spearheaded Virginia Tech's involvement in this effort. For more information please see https://www.ece.vt.edu/news/article/virginia-tech-and-partners-selected-for-317-million-institute-to-spur-innovation-in-fibers-and-textiles.
03/2016 Dr. Jia gave a presentation for the Physics department’s graduate seminar.
03/2016 Dr. Jia's co-authored work on "Thermally drawn fibers as nerve guidance scaffolds" published in Biomaterials.
03/2016 Kelly Kadlec joined the research group as an undergraduate researcher.
01/2016 Maryam joined the research group.
12/2015 Congratulations to Yuan who recieved a best poster award at the MRS Fall conference at Boston, MA. The title of her work is " In-vivo Label-Free Microscopy Device Based on Field Effect Sensor and Polymer Fibers for Deep Brain Imaging. "
11/2015 Kemaya joined the research group as an undergraduate researcher.
10/2015 Yuan has joined the lab as a visiting scholar.
09/2015 Shuang Cheng joined the lab as an undergraduate researcher.
09/2015 Giscar Ayemefack joined the lab as an undergraduate researcher.
09/2015 Srilekhya Reddy Meda joined the lab as a M.Eng student.
09/2015 Chi Chen joined the lab as an undergraduate researcher.
08/2015 Dr. Jia's invited commentary with Dr. Anikeeva (MIT) "Remote-controlled mice" was published in Cell systems. Thank the organizers for the invitation!
08/2015 Dr. Jia joined the Virginia Tech’s Electrical and Computer Engineering Department as an assistant professor and started the Jia Research Group.