Principal Investigator
Qian Yin
Assistant Professor
CPRIT First-Time, Tenure-Track Faculty Member
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Texas Materials Institute
Livestrong Cancer Institute
The University of Texas at Austin
Postdoc, Institute of Immunity, Transplantation and Infection, Stanford University
Ph.D. Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
B.S. Polymer Chemistry, University of Science and Technology of China, China
Postdoctoral Research Fellows
Sijin Huang
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Date Joined: April, 2024
Ph.D. Chemistry & Physics of Polymers, Nankai University, China
Liqiang Chen
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Date Joined: June, 2024
Ph.D. Pharmaceutics, Sichuan University, China
Graduate Research Assistants
Qiuya Li
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Date Joined: January, 2026
M.E. Biomedical Engineering, Tianjin University, China
B.E. Biomedical Engineering, Sichuan University, China
Zeynep Korkmaz
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Date Joined: August, 2025
B.S. Biomedical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, 2025
Chengrun Li
Texas Materials Institute
Date Joined: August, 2025
M.S., Biomedical Engineering, South China University of Technology, China, 2025
B.E. Material Chemistry, Wuhan Institute of Technology, China
Xiaowo Kang
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Date Joined: August, 2024
B.E. Biomedical Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), China, 2024
Undergraduate Research Assistants
Bhargav Vaidya
Department of Biochemistry
Date Joined: September, 2024
Allison Zhang
Dean’s Scholars
Date Joined: February, 2026
Alumni
Graduate Students
Grace Hayes (2025-2026)
Undergraduates
Esdras Lopez (2025-2026), incoming PhD student at Rice University
Sriya Cheemalamarri (2024-2026), incoming Mechanical Design Engineer at Alcon
Marcus Metsala (2024-2026), current M.D. student at UTHealth Houston
Riya Patel (2024-2026), incoming master student at Johns Hopkins University
Kanella Cohen (2024-2025)
Zain Altahhan (2024-2025)
Aishwarya Kothalanka (2024-2025)