Members

Principal Investigator

Tim Yeh, Ph.D. (Hsin-Chih Yeh 葉信志)
Professor
David & Doris Lybarger Endowed Faculty Fellowship in Engineering
Department of Biomedical Engineering

Research Areas:
Nanobiosensor Development, 3D Single-Molecule Tracking, Super-Resolution Imaging, Cancer Biomarker Detection

Email: Tim.Yeh@austin.utexas.edu

B.S. Mechanical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, 1994
M.S. Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, 1998
Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, 2008
Postdoc Training, Los Alamos National Laboratory, 2012

Visiting Researchers

Jhe-Wei (Ryan) Lin
Department of Chemistry, National Taiwan Normal University

Research Areas: Functional nucleic acids
Email: 200301jeremylin@gmail.com
Start Date: October 2025

Postdoctoral Fellow and Research Scientist

Hooi Cheng Lim
Department of Biomedical Engineering

Research Areas: Single-molecule tracking, protein engineering
Email: limhooicheng@gmail.com
Start Date: October 2024
B.S. Biochemistry, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 1999
M.S. Biotechnology, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2004
Ph.D. Molecular Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, 2015

PhD Students

Yujie (Janet) He
Department of Biomedical Engineering

Research Areas: Advanced sensing techniques
Email: yjhe@utexas.edu
Start Date: August 2022
B.E. Agriculture Engineering, Zhejiang University, China, 2022

Anh-Thu (Natalie) Nguyen
Department of Biomedical Engineering

Research Areas: Advanced fluorescence imaging techniques
Email: anhthu.nguyen@utexas.edu
Start Date: August 2022
B.S. Biomedical Engineering, Miami University, Oxford, 2022

Sohyun Kim
Department of Biomedical Engineering

Research Areas: Nanobiosensor development
Email: ksohyun@utexas.edu
Start Date: August 2023
B.S. Optometry, Seoul National University of Science and Technology, South Korea, 2019
M.E. Nano Bioengineering, Seoul National University of Science and Technology, South Korea, 2023

Saeed Seifi
Department of Biomedical Engineering

Research Areas: Nanopores, DNA Nanotechnology, Small-Molecule Detection
Email: saeedseifi@utexas.edu
Start Date: August 2023
M.S. Mechanical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Iran, 2022

Wei-Ru (Louise) Chen
Department of Biomedical Engineering

Research Areas: Mass spectrometry characterization
Email: wru.chen@utexas.edu
Start Date: August 2025
B.S. Chemistry, Tamkang University, Taiwan
M.E. Toxicology, National Taiwan University, Taiwan