Members

Principal Investigator

Zi Chen (Ph.D.)

Education

Ph.D., Mechanical&Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University, NJ (with Dr. David J. Srolovitz and Dr. Mikko P. Haataja).

M.A. Mechanical&Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University.

M.E., School of Materials Science and Engineering, Shanghai JiaoTong University, Shanghai, China.

B.S., Computer Science and Applications, Shanghai JiaoTong University, Shanghai, China.

B.S., Materials Science and Engineering, Shanghai JiaoTong University, Shanghai, China.

Professional Experiences

2021-now: Assistant professor, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Member of the Faculty, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.

2015-2020: Assistant Professor, Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH.

2014-2015: Research Scientist. Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH; Visiting Research Scientist (with Dr. David A. Weitz), Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.

2013-2014: Research Scientist, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Washington University, St. Louis, MO.

2012-2017 : Society in Science – Branco Weiss Fellow.

2011-2013: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Washington University, St. Louis, MO (with Dr. Larry A. Taber).

2011-2011: Visiting scholar Chemical and Biological Engineering, Princeton University (with Dr. Clifford Brangwynne).

Current Members



Joseph Sutlive, PhD                

Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School 






Haning Xiu, PhD

Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School 






Hamed Seyyedhosseinzadeh

Visiting Scientist at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School 






John He

Research Assistant






Matthew Liao

Research Assistant





Jiabao Nie (Glen)

Research Assistant






Johan J. Nuñez-Quispe

Candidate for Bachelor in Mechanical-Electrical Engineering, National University of Engineering







Rongguang Xu, PhD

Incoming Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School






Shivam Prajapati

Bachelor in Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Agartala






Fan Liu, PhD

Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School

(Jointly supervised by Dr. Zi Chen and Dr. Xiaoming Mao from UMich)






Shilu Wang, PhD

Visiting Scholar



Lab Alumni

1. Nan Hu. Professor, Souther University of Science and Technology.

2. Lin Dong. Assistant Professor, NJIT.

3. Dong Wang, PhD. Associate Professor, Shanghai Jiaotong University.

4. Dung Nguyen. Assistant Professor, Seattle Pacific University.

5. Xu Hou. Professor, Xiamen University.

6. Xin Yi. Assistant Professor, Peking University. 

7. Wei Zeng, Assistant Professor, NYIT.

8. Jinhua Zhang, Associate Professor, Xi'an Jiaotong University.

9. Xing Guo. Professor, Soutwest Jiaotong University. 

10. Qiaohang Guo, PhD. Associate Professor in Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Fujian Institute of Technology, China.

11. Yijie Cai, Lecturer, School of Mechanical Engineering, Hubei University of Technology.

12. Zhe Xu, Postdoc, Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College.

13. Muqing Ren, Postdoc, UPenn.

14. Chunsheng Wen, Postdoc, NJIT.

15. Guangchao Wan, Postdoc, Syracuse University.

16. Shicheng Huang, Software Engineer, Google Inc.

17. Xiaomin Han, Engineer, Huawei.

18. Ian Trase, Research Engineerat Aptima, Inc.

19. Catalina-Paula Spatarelu. PhD student, Dartmouth College.

20. Lina Zhang. Assistant Researcher, Shanghai Jiaotong University.

21. Ziqian Wu. PhD student, Dartmouth College.

22. Xinyue Han. PhD student, Dartmouth College.

23. Hannah Grover. PhD student, Dartmouth College.

24. Kayla Duval. Postdoc, Dartmouth College.

25. Nicholas Forsch, PhD student in BME at University of California, San Diego.

26. Lu Wang, graduate student in Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science at Washington University in St. Louis.

27. Hao Zhang. PhD candidate, University of Virginia.

28. Eric Dai, PhD student in BME at University of Pennsylvania.

29. Benjamin B. Conley, PhD student in Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University.

30. Matthew Abate (’17). PhD student at Georgia Institute of Technology.

31. Sihao Chen, PhD student in BME at Washington University in St. Louis.

32. Seong Hwan (Mike) Kim, biomedical engineer at Santec.

33. Stephen Xie, PhD student in MSE at University of Florida

34. Ankita A. Gumaste, undergraduate student at Emory University.

35. Jim Merlin Manoo Klutta. Visiting student (Helmut Schmidt University).

36. Yuxin Liu, undergraduate student at Rutgers University.

37. Alana C. Tucker, undergraduate student at Dartmouth College.

38. Eldred Lee, PhD student at Dartmouth College.

39. Xiaojiao Yu, Ph.D., Data Scientist at Fintech startup.

40. Zhe Zhao, Master, Carnegie Mellon University.

41. Stephanie Jump, Master student, Oxford University.

42. Sunju (Julie) Lee, undergraduate student, Dartmouth.

43. Walker L. Chieffe, undergraduate student, Dartmouth.

44. Rachelle A. Louie, undergraduate student, Dartmouth.

45. Eric Chao, Software Engineering at Uber.

46. Jim Merlin Manoo Klutta. Visiting student (Helmut Schmidt University).

47. Muqing Ren, Postdoc, UPenn.

48. Mengzhu Yang, PhD candidate, University of Bristol.

49. Kevin Yang, Master of Architecture, Yale University.

50. Sophie Usherwood. Undergraduate, Yale University.

51. Kevin Larkin. PhD student, Carnegie Mellon University.