Cheri Deng

About

Cheri X. Deng, Ph.D.Cheri Deng earned a B.S. in Physics (1985) and an M.S. in Acoustics (1988) from Nanjing University, China, and a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Yale University (1995). She was a research scientist at Riverside Research Institute, New York (1995–2002), and an Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Case Western Reserve University (2002–2006). Dr. Deng joined the University of Michigan in 2007, became Professor of Biomedical Engineering in 2013, and directed the department’s M.S. program in 2024–2025. Her laboratory investigates biomedical ultrasound—from fundamental tissue–ultrasound interactions to translational technologies for imaging, drug and gene delivery, mechanobiology, stem-cell engineering, and tissue regeneration. Within the Department of Biomed

Education

• Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Yale University 1995
• M.S., Acoustics, Nanjing University, China 1988
• B.S., Physics, Nanjing University, China 1985