Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering; Bioengineering and ECE affiliate faculty
Contact Information
Campus: Fairfax
Building: Nguyen Engineering Building
Room 3620
Mail Stop: 6E9
Email: pkang7@gmu.edu
Personal Websites
Biography
Prior to coming to Mason Pilgyu Kang was a postdoctoral research associate in Nam Research Group in the Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering (MechSE) at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). His research focuses on developing flexible optoelectronic sensors and devices based on two-dimensional materials such as graphene and transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), for example, Molybdenum disulfide (MoS2). He is also working on research (1) developing integrated graphene-photonic crystals systems for various flexible/wearable sensor applications including strain sensor, pressure sensor, and biochemical sensor, as well as (2) surface topography-engineered graphene-based optoelectronic systems for highly stretchable and flexible sensor devices.
Degrees
- PhD, Mechanical Engineering, Minor: Applied and Engineering Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
- MS, Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
- BS, Mechanical Engineering, Minor: Electrical Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
Research Interests
- Sensors
- Micro and nanomechanics