Katsuo Kurabayashi
Professor & Chair
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
New York University
Katsuo Kurabayashi is a Professor and Chair of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at NYU Tandon School of Engineering. Prior to his appointment at NYU starting in June, 2023, he was a Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He received a B.S. in Precision Engineering from the University of Tokyo, Japan, in 1992, and a M.S. and Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from Stanford University, CA, in 1994 and 1998, respectively. His current research focuses on optofluidics, nanoplasmonic and biomolecular biosensing, and BioMEMS/microsystems for immunoassay, clinical diagnosis, single-cell study, and analytical chemistry. He has authored and co-authored 180 peer-reviewed papers and holds 13 U.S. patents. He received a 2001 NSF Early Faculty Career Development (CAREER) Award, and the Robert Caddell Memorial Award in 2005, the Pi Tau Sigma Outstanding Professor Award in 2007, the University of Michigan Mechanical Engineering Outstanding Achievement Award in 2013, the Ted Kennedy Award in 2015, and the Wise-Najafi Prize for Engineering Excellence in the Miniature World in 2019 from the College of Engineering at the University of Michigan. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) and the American Society of Mechanical Engineering (ASME).
Honors
2001 – 2005 NSF CAREER Award, National Science Foundation
2021 Fellow, Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
2021 Fellow, American Society of Mechanical Engineering (ASME)
2019 International Fellowship for Excellent Overseas Researchers, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
2019 Wise-Najafi Prize for Engineering Excellence in the Miniature World , University of Michigan College of Engineering
2018 Senior author of Outstanding Student Paper Award (with Meng Ting Chung) , the 31st IEEE MEMS Conference
2014 Ted Kennedy Family Team Excellence Award , University of Michigan College of Engineering
2013 ME Outstanding Achievement Award, University of Michigan
2013 Senior Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
2007 Outstanding Professor Award, Pi Tau Sigma
2006 Visiting Professorship, Tokyo Institute of Technology
2004 Robert Caddell Memorial Award, University of Michigan
