People

Song Li, Ph.D
Principal Investigator
Chancellor’s Professor and Department Chair
Department of Bioengineering
Department of Medicine
5121C Engineering V
310-794-6140
310-794-5956 fax
songli@ucla.edu

Jennifer Soto
Research Scientist, Lab Manager, 2016
Direct cell reprogramming
jennifer.soto@ucla.edu

Mahdi Hasani
Research Scientist, 2018
Biomaterials, drug delivery, microfluidics, immunoengineering
Mmhs@ucla.edu

Jana Zarubova
Research Scientist, 2018
Vascular tissue engineering, extracellular vesicles
janazarubova@ucla.edu

Yang Song
Postdoctoral Researcher, 2018
Biomechanics in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine, cell reprogramming
yangsong88@ucla.edu

Zeyang Liu
Visiting Scholar, 2022
liuzey1989@gmail.com

Binru Chen (Andy)
Ph.D Student, 2017
Mechanobiology, microfluidics
brchen@ucla.edu

Xuexiang (Cher) Zhang
Ph.D Student, 2018
Immunoengineering, drug delivery, microfluidics
cherxzhang@g.ucla.edu

Tyler Hoffman
Ph.D Student, 2020
Synthetic cell engineering, biomaterials, bioprinting
tylerhoffman@g.ucla.edu

Yifan Wu
Ph.D Student, 2021
Biomaterials, mechanobiology
yifan671@ucla.edu

Joyce Huang
Ph.D Student, 2022
huangj06@ucla.edu

Ramzi Massad
Ph.D Student, 2022
Biomaterials
ramzimassad@g.ucla.edu

Crystal Xiao
Masters Student, 2020
Drug delivery, microfluidics, biomaterials
cyxiao@ucla.edu

Yu Zhu
Masters Student, 2021
Immunomodulation, mesenchymal stem cells
zy199711@g.ucla.edu

K'Ashe McKinney
Masters Student, 2021
Drug delivery, immunoengineering
kashemckinney1999@gmail.com

Raul Davila
Undergraduate Student
Glioblastoma neurospheres, neural crest stem cells
rgdavila@ucla.edu

Cameron Uy
Undergraduate Student
Immunoengineering, tissue engineering, drug delivery
cuy94521@gmail.com

Josephine Neyyan
Undergraduate Student
Immunoengineering, drug delivery
jneyyan@gmail.com

Jiho Jeong-Kim
Undergraduate Student
Stem cells, tissue engineering
jihovictoria@gmail.com

Juhi Mehta
Undergraduate Student
Tissue engineering, cell reprogramming, and drug delivery
juhimehta@g.ucla.edu

Nico Pedroncelli
Undergraduate Student

Erin Hu
Undergraduate Student
erinhu@ucla.edu