Wenwen Zhao, who completed her Ph.D. in 2025 in the Jena-Xing lab at Cornell University, has joined Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering.
Her research at Cornell focused on aluminum nitride (AlN) acoustic filters and transistors, advancing the monolithic integration of passive and active components on a single platform. At RPI, she will continue working on ultra-wide bandgap semiconductors, with a special interest in the monolithic integration of acoustic and electronic devices for RF, multifunctional sensing, and quantum technologies, as well as in exploring the fundamental physical limits that constrain device performance.