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 China in 2010, and his Ph.D. degree at the University of Chicago in 2015. He was a postdoctoral fellow at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 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 8700 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 is on the editorial boards of Scientific Reports (Nature), npj Soft Matter (Nature), etc.

Ph.D. Students

Nathaniel Quirion (B.S. Cell and Molecular Biology, University of South Florida)

Jialin Chang (B.S. Biomedical Engineering, Chongqing University)

Chenghe Dong (M.S. Energy & Environment, City University of Hong Kong)

Wei Xu (M.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Virginia)

Ze Yang (M.S. Biomedical Engineering, University of Florida)

Undergraduate Students

Jessica Joseph (Biomedical Engineering)

Mallory Viotto (Biomedical Engineering)

Bridget Burke (Biomedical Engineering)

Sonia Seth (Public Health)

Syed Ali (Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering)

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), Xinyu Shi, Amy Fehr, Manasvi Chegu.

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), Miya Liu, Nora Shields, Amarachi Elekeokwuri.

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