Renee Zhao, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and, by courtesy, of Bioengineering and of Materials Science and Engineering
Magnetic Milli-Spinner Microbot (M3bot) for Stroke Treatment
Renee Zhao - Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and (by courtesy) of Materials Science & Engineering
Bio-X Affiliated Faculty
Dr. Ruike Renee Zhao is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University, where she directs the Soft Intelligent Materials Laboratory. Dr. Zhao received her BS degree from Xi'an Jiaotong University in 2012, and her MS and PhD degrees from Brown University in 2014 and 2016, respectively. She was a postdoc associate at MIT during 2016-2018 prior to her appointment as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at The Ohio State University from 2018 to 2021.
Stanford Bio-X Seed Grants
Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Seed Grant: A Spinning-based Ureteroscopy-Compatible Device for Capturing Kidney Stone Fragments
Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Round 12 - 2024
Research News
A game-changing way to treat stroke
June 4, 2025 - Stanford Report News
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty members Renee Zhao, Jeremy Heit, and Paul Yock, with lead author...