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
Postdoc with Prof. David J. Mooney at Harvard University and Wyss Institute (2016-2020)
GRADUATE STUDENTS
Rimsha Bhatta
B.S. Polymer Science and Engineering, The University of Southern Mississippi (2020)
Ph.D. Materials Science and Engineering, UIUC (2020- )
Email: rimshab2@illinois.edu
Joonsu Han
B.S. Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology (2017)
Ph.D. Materials Science and Engineering, UIUC (2020- )
Email: jhan54@illinois.edu
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
Yang Bo
B.S. Chemistry and Biology, Tsinghua University (2017)
Ph.D. Materials Science and Engineering, UIUC (2017- )
Email: yangbo@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
David (Minsup) Lee
B.S. Materials Science and Engineering, UIUC (2022)
Ph.D. Materials Science and Engineering, UIUC (2022- )
Email: lee230@illinois.edu
UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS
Robbie Nollett
Materials Science and Engineering, UIUC
Email: nollett2@illinois.edu
Hoiyi Huang
Chemistry, UIUC
Email: haiyih2@illinois.edu
Leila Williams
Bioengineering, UIUC
leilaaw2@illinois.edu
HIGH SCHOOL RESEARCHER
Emily Chen
University of Illinois Laboratory High School
Class of 2023
ALUMNI
Sean Sutyak
B.S. Materials Science and Engineering, UIUC (2021)
Email: ssutyak2@illinois.edu
Now: PhD student at University of Chicago
Jihoon Park
B.S. Materials Science and Engineering, UIUC (2022)
Email: jihoonp2@illinois.edu
Now: PhD student at Purdue University
Haoyu Li
Materials Science and Engineering, UIUC
Email: haoyuli3@jhan54illinois-edu

Noah Ben-Isvy
Bioengineering, UIUC
Email: benisvy3@illinois.edu
Lydia Taylor
Materials Science and Engineering, UIUC
Email: lct2@illinois.edu