Principal Investigator

Luyao Lu, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, George Washington University
Postdoc, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Northwestern University
Advisor: Prof. John A. Rogers
Ph.D., The University of Chicago
Advisor: Prof. Luping Yu
B.S., Nanjing University

Short Bio:

Luyao Lu received his B.S. degree from Nanjing University in 2010, and his Ph.D. degree at the University of Chicago in 2015. He was a postdoctoral fellow at UIUC and Northwestern University from 2015 to 2018. He became a faculty member in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at George Washington University in August 2018.

Lu’s research interests lie at the intersection of biomedical engineering, materials science, and electrical engineering. He focuses on developing novel materials and devices for bio-integrated electronics and providing advanced tools for biomedical research. His work has been cited over 8500 times. He has received a number of awards including NSF CAREER Award; GW SEAS Outstanding Early Career Researcher Award; KU-GWU international research collaboration award; IUPAC-Solvay International Award for Young Chemists; Albert J. Cross Prize for Excellence in Research, Teaching, and Departmental Citizenship from the University of Chicago. He has served on >10 government grant review panels for NSF, NIH, NIST, etc. and is the reviewer for >30 journals, including Science Advances, Nature Communications, etc.

Ph.D. Students

Nathaniel Quirion

Jialin Chang

Chenghe Dong

Wei Xu

Ze Yang

Master's Students

Amy Fehr

Manasvi Chegu

Undergraduate Students

Miya Liu

Amarachi Elekeokwuri

Bridget Burke

Nora Shields

Sonia Seth

Syed Ali

High School Students

Alumni (with first known employment after leaving Lu lab)

PhD Students: Sofian Obaid (ZOLL Medical Corporation), Zhiyuan Chen (Postdoc at Prof. Hyongsok Tom Soh lab, Stanford).

Master's Students: Nicolas Boyajian (BIONEST Partners, Inc.), Christopher Bach (Meso Scale Diagnostics LLC), Khanh Nguyen (Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard).

Undergraduate Students: Jinbi Tian (PhD student at MIT, Langer Lab), Jillian Adams (Insulet Corporation), Camille Humphreys (Epic), Anthony Aduwari (Master's student at GW), Raymond Cordero, Nicolas Daza (Philips), Jade Dominique, Olivia Baptiste (undergraduate student from Brown University).

High School Students: Henry C. Addison (undergraduate student at Harvard), Dhruv Alladi (undergraduate student at University of Virginia), Thomas Gonzalez (undergraduate student at Johns Hopkins University), Yifan Zhai (undergraduate student at University of Pennsylvania), James Yoon

Group Photo

September 4th, 2024

September 28th, 2023

August 9th, 2022

December 15th, 2021