Prof. Hnin Yin Yin NYEIN Won Prestigious CBMS Young Innovator Award 2025
Prof. Hnin Yin Yin NYEIN from the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at HKUST, has been named the recipient of the 2025 CBMS Young Innovator Award. This award, which was formerly known as the Analytical Chemistry Young Innovator Award, is presented by the Chemical and Biological Microsystems Society (CBMS). This prestigious honor recognizes early-career scientists who have made outstanding contributions to the field of chemical and biological microsystems. The award is given to a single researcher globally each year.
Prof. Nyein will be formally recognized at the upcoming MicroTAS 2025 Conference, held in Adelaide, Australia, where she will deliver an invited lecture showcasing her pioneering work. The award includes an honorarium and a certificate of recognition.
Founded to advance microscale technologies, CBMS sponsors the annual MicroTAS Conference, a leading international forum for research on miniaturized systems for chemical and biological analysis. The CBMS Young Innovator Award is a highly respected accolade with a distinguished roster of past recipients, including Joel Voldman, Jongyoon Han, Amy E. Herr, and Dino Di Carlo from leading institutions worldwide.
Since joining HKUST in 2022, Prof. Nyein has established and leads her research group, focusing on the development of bioelectronics and wearable biosensors. She earned her bachelor’s degree and PhD in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, followed by postdoctoral training at Stanford University. Her interdisciplinary work bridges engineering and biomedicine with a clear mission: to develop flexible and accessible next-generation health technologies.
Her pioneering work includes a wearable sweat sensor that employs integrated microfluidics for the controlled capture and routing of naturally-secreting sweat, establishing a continuous biofluid source for molecular-level health monitoring and real-time biomolecular tracking. Her research has earned international acclaim, including the Innovators Under 35 Asia Pacific 2021 award from MIT Technology Review and the APBEC Young Scholar Award in 2024.
In addition to her research, Prof. Nyein also mentors future scientists, encouraging interdisciplinary thinking and connecting concepts to real-world applications, guided by her belief in passion and perseverance.
Her selection for the CBMS Young Innovator Award places her among a distinguished lineage of innovators shaping the future of microsystems engineering and reflects the growing impact of HKUST’s CBE community on the international stage.
Source: MicroTAS 2025 | 2-6 November 2025 | Adelaide, Australia