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
Siyue (Amaris) Wang
MASc, Mechanical Engineering (Nanotechnology)
Email: s397wang@uwaterloo.ca
Jiayin (Eileen) Liu
MASc, Mechanical Engineering (Nanotechnology)
Email: j2333liu@uwaterloo.ca
Zheyu Zhang
PhD, Mechanical Engineering (Nanotechnology)
Email: z345zhang@uwaterloo.ca
We are always looking for highly motivated graduate students to join the lab. Please see Openings for more details.
Undergraduate Researchers
Ivy Zhang
Nanotechnology Engineering, 2A
Email: yczhang@uwaterloo.ca
Yuhan Sun
Materials and Nanosciences, 4A
Email: y245sun@uwaterloo.ca
Allan Fatkhullin
Mechanical Engineering, 2B
Email: aifatkhullin@uwaterloo.ca
Alumni
Zhenyu Yu (MEng, Mechanical Engineering)
Judy Li (URA, Mechatronics Engineering, 3A)
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)