Professor

Teng Cui

Academic Appointments

  • 07/2025 - present, Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering, University of Waterloo

  • 07/2025 - present, Core Member, Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology, University of Waterloo

Education and Training

  • 2021-2025, NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow, Materials Science & Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, USA

  • 2016-2020, Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, University of Toronto, Canada

  • 2014-2016, M.A.Sc., Mechanical Engineering, University of Toronto, Canada

  • 2013, Undergraduate exchange student, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia

  • 2010-2014, B.Eng., Engineering Mechanics, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China

Graduate Students

We are always looking for highly motivated graduate students to join the lab. Please see Openings for more details.

Undergraduate Researchers

Julie Kim

(Chemical Engineering, 4B)

Kevin Ng

(Mechanical Engineering, 4B)

Nathaniel Li

(Mechatronics Engineering, 3B)

Tina Jang

(Mechatronics Engineering, 3A)

Alumni

Arnav Goyal (URA, Mechatronics Engineering, 2A)