Zheng Lab - Member

We Move to UTSA and 2 Ph.D Positions and 1 Postdoc are Available Immediately, Details in "Position" Page

Principle Investigator

Dr. Jie Zheng is a Regent Distinguished Research Professor at the Department of Dept. of Biomedical Engineering & Chemical Engineering, The University of Texas at San Antonio. He began his independent academic career in 2007 as a tenure-track Assistant Professor, was promoted to Associate Professor in 2012, Full Professor in 2016, and served as Department Chair from 2021 to 2025. In Fall 2025, he joined UTSA to begin a new chapter in his career.

Scientist, National Cancer Institute, NIH, 2007 (with Prof. Ruth Nussinov)
Ph.D, Chemical Engineering, University of Washington, 2005 (with Prof. Shaoyi Jiang)
M.S., Chemical Engineering, Zhejiang University, 1999
B.S., Chemical Engineering, Zhejiang University, 1995

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Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (2023)
Top 3% of highly cited works from American Institutions (2021)
Top 2% of researchers worldwide (2020)
Top 2% of researchers worldwide (2019)
Louis A. Hill Faculty Award, University of Akron (2020)
Outstanding Research Award, University of Akron (2018)
Outstanding Research Award, University of Akron (2017)
NSF CAREER Award (2010)
Anton Award from National Resource for Biomedical Supercomputing (2010)
3M Non-Tenured Faculty Award (2009)
Firestone Research Award (2008)
Faculty Research Fellowship (2008, 2021)
NSF Nanotechnology Fellowship, University of Washington (2002-2004)

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PLoS One (2011-present), Academic Editor
J. of Colloid Science and Biotechnology (2012-present), Associate Editor
MRS Advances (2015-present), Principle Editor
Chinese J. Chemical Engineering (2017-present), Editorial board
J. Materials Chemistry B (2017-present), Editorial board
ACS Applied Bio Materials (2020-present), Editorial board
Materials Advances (2020-present), Editorial board
Supramolecular Materials (2023-present), Associate Editor

When I am not writing papers/grants/reports or not involving other education activities, I love to play badminton and trail run.

Research Associates

Graduate Students

Jialun Wei , PhD, earned his B.Eng. in Macromolecular Materials and Engineering from Zhejiang University in 2021 and his M.S. in Biomolecular Engineering and Health Informatics from HKUST in 2024. He joined the Zheng group in 2024, focusing his research on the design, synthesis, and discovery of smart and functional polymers.

Email: jialun.wei at my.utsa.edu

Nazmul Islam Shuzan, PhD, earned his B.S. in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from North South University in 2019 and his M.S. in Electrical, Electronic, and Systems Engineering from the National University of Malaysia in 2024. He joined the Zheng group in 2025, focusing his research on machine learning for antifreezing peptides, polyesters, and antimicrobial peptides with beta-sheeting properties.

Email: nazmul.shuzan at my.utsa.edu

Lijin Wang, PhD, earned her B.S. in Chemistry from Northeast Forestry University and her M.S. in Chemistry from the National University of Singapore. She joined the Zheng group in 2025, focusing her research on disease-related proteins, with an emphasis on antimicrobial peptides as amyloid inhibitors and AIE or fluorescent molecules as amyloid detectors.

Undergraduate Students

Visiting Scholars

Alumni

Graduate Students

Membrane During Current Position

Xiang Yu (PhD) 08/2008-08/2012 FDA

Qiuming Wang (PhD, female) 08/2008-04/2013 DOE

Chao Zhao (PhD) 08/2009-08/2013 University of Alabama, Assistant Professor

Jun Zhao (PhD) 08/2009-12/2013 AstraZeneca

Jui-Chen Yang (MS) 08/2008-05/2010 Shen Zhen, China

Senthilram Subramanian (MS) 08/2008-05/2010

Rundong Hu (PhD) 08/2012-05/2017 Bei Jing, China

Mingzhen Zhang (PhD) 08/2013-05/2017 Eli Lilly

Hong Chen (PhD, female) 08/2013-05/2017 Sichuan University, China

Baiping Ren (PhD, female) 08/2015-05/2019 FDA

Fengyu Yang (PhD, female) 08/2015-05/2019 Hong Kong

Xia Lei (PhD, female) 08/2013-05/2019

Yongqing Cai (MS) 08/2017-05/2019 MDH Research

Gayatri Shrikhande (PhD, female) 08/2014-12/2019 Dantari Pharmaceuticals

Seyed Mostafa Razavi (PhD) 08/2015-05/2020 co-advisor of Prof. Richard Elliott

Jian He (MS) 08/2019-01/2021 Hang Zhou, China

Christopher Kelley (MS) 08/2018-12/2020

Kuanwu Chu (PhD) 08/2016-05/2021

Yonglan Liu (PhD, female) 01/2017-05/2021 NIH

Yanxian Zhang (PhD, female) 08/2017-05/2021 Stanford University

Ghadir Abu Helal (MS, female) 08/2019-04/2021 NeoGraf Solutions LLC

Rhett Meyer (MS) 08/2019-11/2021

Dong Zhang (PhD) 01/2019-01/2023 Georgia Institute of Technology

Yijing Tang (PhD, female) 08/2020-05/2024 Harvard Medical School

Jacob Ress (PhD) 08/2019-12/2024

Hongyu Mao (MS) 08/2024-08/2025

Gemini Ramlo (MS) 08/2024-08/2025

Visiting Professors

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Jingdai Wang 12/2008-10/2009 Zhejiang University, Professor and Dean, Distinguished Young Scholars

(杰青，长江，万人)

Guizhao Liang 06/2010-03/2011 Chongqing University, Professor

Qiang Chen 04/2012-04/2013 Henan Polytechnic University, Professor

Jintao Yang 04/2013-04/2014 Zhejiang University of Technology, Professor

Jie Ma 03/2015-08/2016 Tongji University, Professor

Fei Yu (female) 09/2015-09/2016 Shanghai Institute of Technology, Associate Professor

Bingbo Jiang 07/2015-09/2016 Zhejiang University, Associate Professor

Pei Wang 08/2016-08/2017 Dalian Maritime University, Associate Professor

Lijian Xu 10/2016-10/2017 Hunan University of Technology, Professor

Ting Wang 12/2017-12/2018 Southeast University, Associate Professor

Zhangqi Feng 12/2017-12/2018 Nanjing Univ. of Science and Technology, Associate Professor

Qinyuan Huang 12/2018-12/2019 Sichuan University of Science and Engineering, Associate Professor

Visiting Students

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Qiang Gu (Ph.D) 02/2010-05/2010 Nanjing University

Yin Luo (Ph.D) 03/2011-09/2011 Fudan University

Jiang Wu (Ph.D, female) 09/2012-04/2013 Zhejiang University/Wenzhou Medical University

Associate Professor

Mingxuan Yang (MS) 08/2015-02/2016 Tongji University

Chunyang Chen (MS, female) 03/2016-09/2016 Tongji University

Shengwei Xiao (Ph.D) 10/2016-04/2017 Zhejiang University of Technology/Taizhou University

Assistant Professor

Li Tang (Ph.D) 08/2018-08/2019 Hunan University of Technology

Assistant Professor

Shaowen Xie (Ph.D) 08/2018-08/2019 Hunan University of Technology

Assistant Professor

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