RESEARCH INTERESTS
Adaptive small-scale optics, optofluidics, ophthalmic optics and devices, optical metrology, microscopy.

Google scholar profile: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=x5BeY18AAAAJ&hl=en
LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kang-wei-89796966?trk=nav_responsive_tab_profile

EDUCATION
The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
Ph.D., Department of Biomedical Engineering, 2015.
• Dissertation: “Bio-inspired Reconfigurable Elastomer-liquid Lens: Design, Actuation and Optimization”.
• Advisor: Yi Zhao.
Chongqing University, Chongqing, China
B.S., College of Bioengineering, 2008.

EMPLOYMENT
Alcon Laboratories Inc., Huntington, WV, USA
-Optical/Mechanical Engineer September 2015 – now
Holochip Corporation, Los Angeles, CA, USA
-Research Scientist Intern May 2014 – August 2014
Key Laboratory of Biorheological Science, Chongqing, China
-Research Assistant September 2008 – June 2010

HONORS AND AWARDS
• Shining Star, Alcon Laboratories, Inc., 2016
• Finalist of 2015 OSU Fisher Business Competition
• Pelotonia Graduate Fellowship, $48,000, 2013 - 2015
• SPIE Travel Scholarship, 2014
• The Alumni Grants for Graduate Research and Scholarship, 2014
• Transducer Research Foundation Student Travel Support, 2014
• SPIE Photonics West Officer Travel Grant, 2013
• Best poster presentation in the Ohio State University Biomedical Engineering Conference, 2012
• NSF Student Travel Grant, 2011
• Howard Hughes Medical Institute Med Into Grad Fellowship, $30,000, 2011
• University Fellowship, $20,400, 2010
• Annual Outstanding Graduate Student Scholarship, 2009
• Annual Outstanding Graduate Student Scholarship, 2008
• Excellent Undergraduate, 2008
• Scholarship for Comprehensive Performance, 2007