Principle Investigator
Xinyu Liu
Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Percy Edward Hart Professor of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering
Office: MC312
Phone: 416-946-0558
Email: xyliu@mie.utoronto.ca
Research interests: Microfluidics and lab-on-a-chip technologies; biosensors; bio-microelectromechanical systems (bioMEMS); point-of-care diagnostics; robotics and automation at the micro and nanoscales; soft robotics; flexible/stretchable sensors and electronics.
Postdoctoral Researcher
Deekshitha Jetta
Ph.D. & M.Sc., University of Buffalo, United States
B.S., Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, India
Email: deekshitha.jetta@sickkids.ca
Research interests: Microfluidics, cellular mechanobiology
Peng Pan
B.Eng. & M.Eng., Mechanical Engineering, Soochow University, China
Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, McGill University, Canada
Email: peng.pan@mail.utoronto.ca
Research interests: Robotic micromanipulation, microfluidics, MEMS
Graduate Students
Zhen Qin
B.Eng., Thermal Energy and Power Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China
M.Eng., Mechanical Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
2018-present: Ph.D. Candidate, Mechanical/Biomedical Engineering, University of Toronto, Canada
Email: qinzhen@mie.utoronto.ca
Research topic: Paper-based microfluidic biosensors for Point-of-Care disease diagnosis
Yueyue Pan
B.Eng., Electronic Science and Technology, Wuhan University, China
M.Phil., Electronics and Computer Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
2018-present: Ph.D. Candidate, Mechanical Engineering, University of Toronto, Canada
Email: yueyue.pan@mail.utoronto.ca
Research topic: Two-dimensional material-based biosensing and diagnosis, microfluidics, and optofluidics
Pengfei Xu
B.Eng., Materials Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, China
M.Eng., Solid Mechanics, Harbin Institute of Technology, China
2019-present: Ph.D. Candidate, Mechanical Engineering, University of Toronto, Canada
Email: finn.xu@mail.utoronto.ca
Research topic: Soft robotics and sensors based on hydrogels
Zhanfeng Zhou
B.Eng. & M.Eng., Mechatronics, Harbin Institute of Technology, China
2020-present: Ph.D. Student, Mechanical Engineering, University of Toronto, Canada
Email: zhanfeng.zhou@mail.utoronto.ca
Research topic: Soft robotics and soft robotic hand
Xia Wu
B.Eng., Mechanical Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, China
2021-present: Ph.D. Student, Mechanical Engineering, University of Toronto, Canada
Email: xiaa.wu@mail.utoronto.ca
Research topic: Biohybrid microrobotics
Pengsong Zhang
B.Eng., Electrical Engineering and Automation, Jiangnan Uninversity, China
M.Sc., Electrical Engineering, Jiangnan Uninversity, China
2022-present: Ph.D. Student, Mechanical Engineering, University of Toronto, Canada
Email: pengsong.zhang@mail.utoronto.ca
Research topic: Micro and nanorobotics, microfluidics
Rongan Zhai
B.Eng., Mechanical Engineering, Bengbu University, China
M.Eng.: Mechanical Engineering, Soochow University, China
2019 - present: Ph.D. candidate, Mechanical Engineering, Shanghai University, China
2021 - present: visiting Ph.D. student, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto, Canada
Email: rongan.zhai@mail.utoronto.ca
Research topic: Robotic micromanipulation of biological samples
UG PEY Students
Runze Zuo
2021/09-present: PEY student, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto
Email: runze.zuo@mail.utoronto.ca
Research topic: Design and control of a underwater soft robot
Shawn Wang
2021/09-present: PEY student, Mechanical Engineering, University of Toronto
Email: shawnjia.wang@mail.utoronto.ca
Research topic: 3D printing of stretchable sensors and soft robots
UG Summer Students
Ziyi Huang
2022/05-present: UG summer student, Engineering Science, University of Toronto
Email: ziyi.huang@mail.utoronto.ca
Research topic: Microfluidic devices for cardiovascular disease diagnostics
Ryan Li
2022/05-present: UG summer student, Nanotechnology Engineering, University of Waterloo
Email: ryhli@uwaterloo.ca
Research topic: Microfluidic immunosensors for disease diagnostics
Siddhartha Challa
2022/05-present: UG summer student, Mechanical Engineering, University of Toronto
Email: siddhartha.challa@mail.utoronto.ca
Research topic: Stretchable and conductive polymers for sensors and electronics
Matthew Du
2022/05-present: UG summer student, Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto
Email: matthew.du@mail.utoronto.ca
Research topic: Modelling and control of a soft robotic hand
Alumini
Qigao Fan (Visiting professor, Jiangnan University)
Xin Wang (Visiting professor, Jilin University)
Bing Li (Visiting professor, Huzhou University)
Ran Peng (Postdoc; now assistant professor at Dalian Maritime University)
Longyan Chen (Postdoc; now research scientist at Halifax)
Ilina Kolker Baravik (Postdoc; now research scientist in Israel)
Tianyu Li (Postdoc; now lecturer in The King's University)
Pengfei Song (PhD student; now assistant professor at Liverpool-Xi'an Jiaotong University)
Chen Zhao (Ph.D. student; now postdoc at University of Pennsylvania)
Binbin Ying (PhD student; now postdoc at MIT)
Sina Kheiri (PhD student)
Xianke Dong (PhD student; now research scientist in Toronto)
Fan Yang (PhD student; now postdoc at Stanford University)
Hao Fu (PhD student; now research scientist in Shenzhen)
Qiyang Wu (PhD student; now assistant professor at Harbin Engineering University)
Juntian Qu (PhD student; now assistant professor at Tsinghua University)
Weize Zhang (PhD student; now a research scientist at Huawei China)
Xiao Li (PhD student; first position after BME: postdoc at Stanford University; now assistant professor at Xi'an Jiaotong University)
Xiang Xi (Visiting PhD student; now an assistant professor in China)
Zhaoyi Xu (M.A.Sc. student; now Ph.D. at University of Michigan)
Vicky Wang (M.Eng. thesis student)
Guowei Zhong (M.A.Sc. student)
Linghao Du (M.A.Sc. student; now engineer at Huawei Canada)
Yuxiao Zhou (M.A.Sc. student)
Elton Tan (M.Eng. student)
Tyler Clancy (M.Eng. student; now engineer at University of Ottawa)
Neil Lui (Undergraduate student)
Vishesh Pradeep (Undergraduate student)
Dante Filice (Undergraduate student)
Ted Li (Undergraduate student)
Corey Miles (Undergraduate student)
Tomas Diaz Jimenez (Undergraduate student)
Dylan Caverly (Undergraduate student)
Zhiyue Zhang (Undergraduate student)
Anan Lu (Undergraduate student)
Andrew Jung (Undergraduate student)
Romain Roux (Undergraduate student)
Milda Sabiston (Undergraduate student)
Simon Silva-Da Cruz (Undergraduate student)
Alexandre Sobolevski (Undergraduate student)
Ricky Leem (Undergraduate student)
Ayvi Islam (Undergraduate student)
Da-Eun Kim (Undergraduate student)
Vicky Wang (Undergraduate student)
Erdem Demirli (Undergraduate student)
Filip Grigorov (Undergraduate student)
Colin Gallacher (Undergraduate student)
Daoud Lairy (Undergraduate student)
Sahil Mahey (Undergraduate student)
Anthony Piciacchia (Undergraduate student)
Philip Zwanenburg (Undergraduate student)
Ryann Chen (Undergraduate student)
Junyu Chen(Undergraduate student)
Yichao Shi (Undergraduate student)
