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Hyoung Jin Cho

Professor, MAE Associate Chair

Department: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Email: hjcho@ucf.edu
Phone: 407-823-5014
Office: Engineering I Room 381C
Website: NanoFab and BioMEMS Lab
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Hyoung Jin "Joe" Cho earned his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Cincinnati in 2002. He earned his master's and bachelor's degrees in materials engineering from Seoul National University in 1991 and 1989, respectively. He worked as a research engineer for Korea Electronics Technology Institute from 1993 to 1997. He was a recipient of NSF CAREER award in 2004.

He joined UCF in 2002 as an assistant professor, and was promoted to associate professor in 2007 and professor in 2013. He has served as associate chair of the MAE department since 2014.

His research and educational programs have been supported by various government agencies and industries, including NSF CAREER, MRI, REU, NUE, RET, Manufacturing, I/UCRC Research Center, and NIH STTR among others. He currently serves as the co-director of the NSF Multi-Functional Integrated System Technology Center site at UCF. His main research interest is in the development of miniaturized actuators, sensors and microfluidic components based on MEMS technology. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed journal and proceeding papers in the area of MEMS and nanotechnology.

Research Interests: MEMS, BioMEMS, microfabrication, nanofabrication, sensors, actuators, microfluidics, biosensors, nanomaterials, nanotechnology, magnetic microactuators, electroplating, lithography, nanoimprinting

  • Ph.D. University of Cincinnati Electrical Engineering
  • M.S. Seoul National University, Korea Materials Engineering
  • B.S. Seoul National University, Korea Materials Engineering
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  • Professor, MAE Associate Chair
  • Faculty Senate (Alternate) 2013-2014
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  • Editorial Board, International Journal of Optomechatronics, Talyor and Francis
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  • Chair, Advisory Committee, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Dept., UCF, 2013-2014

  • Wang, C. Hughes, S. Jung, and H. J. Cho, “A Rapid In-Situ Electrochemical Surface Modification Process for Nanotextured Gold Electrodes,” Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, vol. 19, no. 4, pp. 2407–2410, Apr. 2019.

  • H. Hwang, X. Wang, D. Zhao, M. M. Rex, H. J. Cho, and W. H. Lee, “A novel nanoporous bismuth electrode sensor for in situ heavy metal detection,” Electrochimica Acta, vol. 298, pp. 440–448, Mar. 2019.

  • Wang and H. J. Cho, “p-CuO nanowire/n-ZnO nanosheet heterojunction-based near-UV sensor fabricated by electroplating and thermal oxidation process,” Materials Letters, vol. 223, pp. 170–173, Jul. 2018.

  • Wang and H. J. Cho, “Morphologies and electrical properties of multiple CuO nanowire-based device controlled by electroplating and thermal oxidation process,” Microsystem Technologies, vol. 24, no. 6, pp. 2719–2726, Jun. 2018.

  • Alireza Karbalaei and Hyoung Cho, “Microfluidic Devices Developed for and Inspired by Thermotaxis and Chemotaxis,” Micromachines, vol. 9, no. 4, p. 149, Mar. 2018 (Journal Cover).

  • Wang et al., “ZnO nanoflakes as a template for in-situ electrodeposition of nanostructured cobalt electrodes as amperometric phosphate sensors,” Materials Letters, vol. 192, pp. 107–110, Apr. 2017.

  • J. Neal et al., “Picomolar Detection of Hydrogen Peroxide using Enzyme-free Inorganic Nanoparticle-based Sensor,” Scientific Reports, vol. 7, no. 1, Dec. 2017.

  • R. Shabani and H. J. Cho, “Flow rate analysis of an EWOD-based device: how important are wetting-line pinning and velocity effects?,” Microfluidics and Nanofluidics, vol. 15, issue 5, pp. 587-597, 2013.

  • R. Shabani and H. J. Cho, “Active surface tension driven micropump using droplet/meniscus pressure gradient,” Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, vol. 180, pp. 114–121, 2013.

  • J. Lee, J. Kim, H. Kim, Y. M. Bae, K.-H. Lee, and H. J. Cho, “Effect of thermal treatment on the chemical resistance of polydimethylsiloxane for microfluidic devices,” Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, vol. 23, no. 3, p. 035007, 2013.

  • R. Shabani, R. Kumar, and H. J. Cho, “Droplets on liquid surfaces: Dual equilibrium states and their energy barrier,” Applied Physics Letters, vol. 102, no. 18, p. 184101, 2013.

  • S.-H. Bae, O. Kahya, B. K. Sharma, J. Kwon, H. J. Cho, B. Özyilmaz, and J.-H. Ahn, “Graphene-P(VDF-TrFE) Multilayer Film for Flexible Applications,” ACS Nano, vol. 7, no. 4, pp. 3130–3138, 2013.