Principal Investigator

Luyao Lu, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, The George Washington University, 2018/08-present
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 in Chemistry from Nanjing University in 2010, and his Ph.D. degree in Chemistry at the University of Chicago in 2015. He was a postdoctoral fellow at UIUC and Northwestern University from 2015 to 2018. He joined the faculty of George Washington University in the Department of Biomedical Engineering 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 7600 times. He has received a number of awards including NSF CAREER Award, 2023 GW SEAS Outstanding Early Career Researcher Award, 2022 KU-GWU international research collaboration award, 2016 IUPAC-Solvay International Award for Young Chemists, 2014 Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Students Abroad, 2013 Albert J. Cross Prize for Excellence in Research, Teaching, and Departmental Citizenship from the University of Chicago. He has served on multiple 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

Xinyu Shi

Jialin Chang

Wanyu Zhao

Master Students

Undergraduate Students

Amy Fehr

Jade Dominique

Miya Liu

Amarachi Elekeokwuri

Bridget Burke

High School Students

Yifan Zhai

Alumni (with first known employment after leaving Lu lab)

PhD Students: Sofian Obaid (FDA), 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 (Masters student at GW), Raymond Cordero, Nicolas Daza (Philips).

High School Students: Henry C. Addison, Dhruv Alladi, Thomas Gonzalez.

Group Photo

September 28th, 2023

August 9th, 2022

December 15th, 2021