- Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering
- Phone: 979-458-9197
- Email: ltian@tamu.edu
- Office: HTB 114
- Research Website
Educational Background
- Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis – 2014
Research Interests
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Areas of interest: Biomaterials, biosensors, medical devices, micro/nanotechnology
- Organic/inorganic hybrid materials for physical, chemical and biological sensors and multifunctional surfaces and interfaces
- Programmable/reconfigurable materials and systems with tunable properties and functionalities
- Flexible and stretchable wearable photonics and electronics
- Unconventional approaches for micro/nanofabrication
Awards & Honors
- Young Faculty Fellow Award, TEES, 2023
- NIGMS R35 Maximizing Investigators' Research Award, National Institutes of Health, 2022
- NIBIB Trailblazer Award, National Institutes of Health, 2020
- Beckman Institute Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA, 2015
- Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad, 2014
- Graduate Student Award in Materials Research Society-Fall Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, 2013
- 1st prize in 18th Washington University Annual Graduate Research Symposium, 2013
- NSF Summer Institute on Nanomechanics, Nanomaterials, and Micro/Nanomanufacturing fellowship, 2011