Rogers and Huang Honored with Namesake Medal by ICCES

Northwestern Engineering’s John Rogers and Yonggang Huang are the namesakes of a new medal awarded by the International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences (ICCES).

The John Rogers/Yonggang Huang Medal is an annual award for outstanding researchers (a single person or a pair who collaborate) with a strong, sustained history of collaboration in the general fields of engineering and science. 

Longtime collaborators, Rogers and Huang have produced seven book chapters and 405 journal articles together since 2005 – one of the most productive collaborative pairs in the history of academic research. They work together on materials and engineering designs for bioelectronic technologies, uniquely defined by their ability to gently conform to or embed within soft living tissues. Their joint programs include the development of skin-like, or ‘epidermal’ electronic systems for wireless health monitoring and bioresorbable technologies as temporary therapeutic implants.

Rogers is the Louis A. Simpson and Kimberly Querrey Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, and Neurological Surgery, and (by courtesy) professor of chemistry, mechanical engineering, electrical and computer engineering, and dermatology. He also directs the Querrey Simpson Institute for Bioelectronics.

Huang is the Jan and Marcia Achenbach Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Civil and Environmental Engineering, and (by courtesy) professor of materials science and engineering.

In February, Texas A&M University’s Hagler Institute for Advanced Study announced the creation of the John Rogers/Yonggang Huang Medal, an annual award recognizing the best collaborative research paper by a Hagler fellow with a Texas A&M student among the co-authors.