Pengyu Chen

Francis Family Professor and Chair
Materials Engineering
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Auburn University

Pengyu Chen is a Professor in Materials Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering at Auburn. He received his B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering from Nanjing University. He earned his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from Clemson University in 2012 and worked as a research fellow in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Michigan from 2013-2016. Chen's research focuses on advanced nanomaterial based biosensors for biomarker detection, single cell secretion imaging, point-of-care diagnostics, and smart wearables. He has a broad interest in Biophysics, Biosensing, Medicine/NanoEHS, and Immunology.

Lang Zhou

Ph.D.
Materials Engineering
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Auburn University
M.E. in Chemical Engineering, Sichuan University
B.E. in Biotechnology, Sichuan University

Lang's current research focuses on developing novel nanoplasmonic biosensing platforms for imaging cytokine secretion from individual immune cell and apply the technology to study cytokine secretion dynamics.

Yuxin Cai

Ph.D.
Materials Engineering
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Auburn University
M.E. in Materials Engineering, Auburn University
B.E. in Applied Chemistry, Beijing University of Chemical Technology

Yuxin's research focuses on AI-enabled tumor-on-chip platforms that use longitudinal, spatially resolved tumor-immune signaling trajectories to predict perturbation-specific tumor responsiveness and to develop functional precision oncology.

Siqi Wu

Ph.D. Candidate
Materials Engineering
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Auburn University
M.S. in Materials Science and Engineering, University of Florida
B.E. in Polymer Materials and Engineering, Hubei University

Siqi’s current research focuses on magnetic assisted patterning and novel magnetic nanomaterials for neuron cell biosensors.

Karan Ingale

Ph.D. Candidate
Materials Engineering
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Auburn University
B.E. in Mechanical Engineering, SRM Institute of Science and technology

Karan’s current projects are about cell culture on chip and analysis.

Peizhen Sun

Ph.D. student
Materials Engineering
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Auburn University
B.E. in Materials Engineering, Auburn University

Peizhen’s current projects are about cell communications and ADPA-based single cell analysis.

Yurou Zeng

Ph.D. student
Materials Engineering
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Auburn University
B.E. in Materials Engineering, Hunan University

Yurou’s current projects are about wearable sensors.

Jana Smith

Undergraduate student
Materials Engineering
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Auburn University

Jana Smith is working on capture, concentration, and detection of cancer cells using magnetoelastic sensors for early cancer diagnosis. She started in the lab as a high school senior.

Carson Prorok

Undergraduate student
Materials Engineering
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Auburn University