People

Principal Investigator

Prof. Hua Wang
Assistant Professor
Department of Materials Science & Engineering
202 MSEB, 1304 W Green St. Urbana, IL 61801
Phone: (217) 300-7097
Email: huawang3@illinois.edu
Affiliated with Cancer Center at Illinois/Carle College of Medicine/Department of Bioengineering/Beckman Institute/Materials Research Laboratory/Institute for Genomic Biology

Education and Training
B.S. Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China (2012)
Ph.D. Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2016)
Postdoc with Prof. David J. Mooney at Harvard University and Wyss Institute (2016-2020)
 
 

POSTDOCTORAL ASSOCIATE

Yuan Liu

B.S. Biotechnology, Hebei University
M.S. Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Nanjing University
Ph.D. Biomedical Engineering, Florida State University
 
Email: yuan45@illinois.edu
 

GRADUATE STUDENTS

 Yusheng Liu

B.S. Chemistry and Chemical Biology, University of Science and Technology of China (2020)
Ph.D. Materials Science and Engineering, UIUC (2021- )
 
Email: yusheng8@illinois.edu
 

Yueji Wang

B.S. Materials Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology (2021)
Ph.D. Mechanical Science and Engineering, UIUC (2021- )
 
Email: yuejiw2@illinois.edu
 

David (Jiadiao) Zhou

B.S. Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Davis (2022)
Ph.D. Materials Science and Engineering, UIUC (2022- )
 
Email: jiadiao2@illinois.edu
 
 

Dhyanesh Baskaran

M.S. Materials Science and Engineering, UIUC (2022)
Ph.D. Materials Science and Engineering, UIUC (2023-)
 
Email: db17@illinois.edu
 
 

Daniel Nguyen

B.S Bioengineering – Biotechnology, UC San Diego (2020)
M.S Bioengineering, UC San Diego (2021)
Ph.D. Bioengineering, UIUC (2021 -)
 
Email: dungnn2@illinois.edu
 
 
Ruike Dai
 
B.S. Chemical Biology, University of Science and Technology of China (2024)
Ph.D. Materials Science and Engineering, UIUC (2024-)

Email: ruikedai@illinois.edu

 

Wenhao Xu (Co-advised by Prof. Shuming Nie)
 
B.S. Pharmaceutical Science, Peking University (2022)
M.S. Pharmaceutics, Peking University (2024)
Ph.D. Bioengineering, UIUC (2024-)

Email: wenhaox3@illinois.edu

MASTER’S and UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS

Runyu Qi

B.S. Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University (2023)
M.S. Materials Science and Engineering, UIUC (2023-)
 
Email: runyuq2@illinois.edu
 

Jamie Koo

B.S. Chemistry, UIUC 

Email: jkoo21@illinois.edu

 

Lisa (Yixin) Xue

B.S. Chemistry, UIUC (2023-)

Email: lisax2@illinois.edu

 

Hanzhi Sa

B.S. Material Science and Engineering, UIUC (2023-)

 

 

Savindi Devmal

B.S. Bioengineering, UIUC (2024-)

 

 

Akarsh Ellore 

B.S. Bioengineering, UIUC (2023-)

 

 

ALUMNI

PhD Graduates

Yang Bo

B.S. Chemistry and Biology, Tsinghua University (2017)
Ph.D. Materials Science and Engineering, UIUC (2023)
 
Current: Postdoc at University of Washington
 
 

Joonsu Han

B.S. Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology (2017)
Ph.D. Materials Science and Engineering, UIUC (2024)
 
Current: Postdoc at Argonne National Laboratory
 
 

Rimsha Bhatta

B.S. Polymer Science and Engineering, The University of Southern Mississippi (2020)
Ph.D. Materials Science and Engineering, UIUC (2025)
 
Email: rimshab2@illinois.edu
 

MS Graduates

David (Minsup) Lee

B.S. Materials Science and Engineering, UIUC (2022)
M.S. Materials Science and Engineering, UIUC (2024)
 
 
 

Undergraduates

Sean Sutyak

B.S. Materials Science and Engineering, UIUC (2021)

Current: PhD student at University of Chicago

 

Jihoon Park

B.S. Materials Science and Engineering, UIUC (2022)

Current: PhD student at Purdue University

 

Hoiyi Huang

B.S. Chemistry, UIUC (2024)

Current: PhD student at University of Southern California

 

Haoyu Li

Materials Science and Engineering, UIUC

 

 

Noah Ben-Isvy

Bioengineering, UIUC

 

 

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Robbie Nollett

Materials Science and Engineering, UIUC

 

 

Leila Williams Bioengineering, UIUC

Minghui Zhu MatSE, UIUC

Satyajit Panda MatSE, UIUC

High School Graduates

Emily Chen

University of Illinois Laboratory High School (2023)

Current: Princeton University

 

Sophie (Aya) Surheyao

University of Illinois Laboratory High School (2024)

Current: Princeton University