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Prof. Xiaoguang Dong
Dr. Xiaoguang Dong is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Vanderbilt University. He is also a core member of the Vanderbilt Institute for Surgery and Engineering (VISE). He received his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. Before joining Vanderbilt University, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems. He has received several awards including the NSF CAREER Award, NIH Trailblazer Award, Med-X Young Investigator Award, and Rising Star Award of Advanced Materials Technologies. His group is working on the design, fabrication, and control of novel functional miniature robots and devices, for applications in personalized health care.
Honors and Awards：
2026 Nanoscale Emerging Investigators, Royal Society of Chemistry
2025 NSF CAREER Award, NSF, US
2025 Innovation Catalyst Fund Award, Vanderbilt University
2024-2025 Rising Star Faculty Research Award, School of Engineering, Vanderbilt University, US
2025 Scaling Success Award, Vanderbilt University, US
2024 NIBIB Trailblazer Award, National Institutes of Health, US
2024 Seeding Success Award, Vanderbilt University, US
2024 Med-X Young Investigator Award, Springer Nature
2024 Emerging Leaders in Materials Science, APL materials
2023 Advanced Materials Technologies Rising Star, Wiley Group
2023 RAMP Award, Vanderbilt University, US
2022-2023 SEC Faculty Travel Award, US
2022 Oak Ridge National Lab Travel Grant, US
2020 Max Planck Grassroots Initiative Award, Germany
2016-2019 Max Planck PhD Fellowship, Germany
2013-2014 PhD Fellowship, Carnegie Mellon University, US
2013 Chancellor Li Chang Scholarship (Top 5 at HIT, 2013), China
2012 National Scholarship (Top 1% at HIT), China
2011 National Scholarship (Top 1% at HIT), China
2010 National Scholarship (Top 1% at HIT), China
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