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., Nanomechanics, University of Toronto, Canada

  • 2014-2016, M.A.Sc., Solid Mechanics, University of Toronto, Canada

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

Graduate Students

Zhenyu Yu

MEng, Mechanical Engineering

Email: z366yu@uwaterloo.ca

Siyue Wang

MASc, Mechanical Engineering

Email: s397wang@uwaterloo.ca

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

Undergraduate Researchers

Judy Li

Mechatronics Engineering, 3A

Email: j385li@uwaterloo.ca

Alumni

Kevin Ng (URA, Mechanical Engineering, 4B)

Nathaniel Li (URA, Mechatronics Engineering, 3B)

Tina Jang (URA, Mechatronics Engineering, 3A)

Julie Kim (URA, Chemical Engineering, 4A & 4B)

Arnav Goyal (URA, Mechatronics Engineering, 2A)