Contact Information
Email: yimin.wu@uwaterloo.ca
Phone: 519-888-4567 x40185
Location: E7 3418
Director | Materials Interfaces Foundry (MIF)
Assistant Professor | Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering, Faculty of Engineering
Yimin Wu is an assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering and Waterloo Institute of Nanotechnology (WIN), Director of Materials Interfaces Foundry, at the University of Waterloo. Dr. Wu received his DPhil degree in Materials from the University of Oxford on 2D electronics in 2013. Then, he worked as a SinBeRise Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
Prior to joining the faculty at Waterloo in 2019, he was focusing on the advanced catalysts and battery research in the Center for Nanoscale Materials and Joint Center for Energy Storage Research (JCESR), Argonne National Laboratory and worked as a research assistant professor at University of Illinois, USA. His group research focuses on advanced manufacturing for sustainable energy and climate, machine intelligence for sensing and computing.
He has authored and co-authored more than 50 peer-reviewed journal papers, which includes Nature, Nature Energy, Nature communications. He is also listed as a primary inventor on 1 US/international patent. His research has been highlighted by Canadian Press, CBC news, the Independent, BNN Bloomberg, Fast Company, and French Science Magazine. He has been awarded more than 10 awards including Nanoscale Emerging Investigator Award (2022), WIN Research Leaders Award (2020), MIT Technical Review Innovators Under 35 Award Finalist (2020), SinBeRise Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of California, Berkeley (2013), UK EPRSC Doctoral Prize (2012).Wu has delivered over 25 invited lectures across the world in last 5 years.
His research group has received funding from federal and provincial government agencies (Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Canadian Foundation for Innovation, National Research Council Canada, Ontario Center of Excellence, and MITACS).
Graduate Supervision: Dr. Wu supervises graduate students within masters and doctoral programs in Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering, and Nanotechnology Collaborative Program. His students have been exploring questions associated with sustainable energy and climate, machine intelligence for sensing and computing.
Selected Publications:
- Yimin A. Wu, Ian McNulty, Cong Liu, Kah Chun Lau, Qi Liu, Arvydas P. Paulikas, Cheng-Jun Sun, Zhonghou Cai, Jeffrey R. Guest, Yang Ren, Vojislav Stamenkovic, Larry A. Curtiss, Yuzi Liu, Tijana Rajh, Facet-dependent active sites of a single Cu2O particle photocatalyst for CO2 reduction to methanol, Nature Energy, 4, 2019, 957 – 968
- Cheng Du, Xiyang Wang, Wei Chen, Shouhua Feng, John Wen, Yimin A. Wu*; CO2 Transformation to Multicarbon Products by Photocatalysis and Electrocatalysis”, Materials Today Advances, 2020, 6, 100071
- Bai Sun, Tao Guo, Guangdong Zhou, Shubham Ranjan, Yixuan Jiao, Lan Wei, Norman Zhou, Yimin A. Wu*, Synaptic Devices Based Neuromorphic Computing Applications in Artificial Intelligence, Materials Today Physics, 2021, 18, 100393