About me

I am currently a postdoctoral scholar in Penn State, Department of Biology. My research interest is developing theories and models on nonlinear mechanics and rheology of active biological materials.

News

Sep 03, 2024: The mini proposal on strain hardening behavior of plant cell walls gets funded by the Center for Engineering Mechanobiology!

May 23, 2024: I successfully defended my dissertation!

Apr 04, 2024: Our paper “Machine learning traction force maps for contractile cell monolayers” are online in Extreme Mechanics Letters.

Mar 05, 2024: Our paper “Agent-based modeling of stress anisotropy driven nematic ordering in growing biofilms” is accepted by Soft Matter and highlighted as the front cover!

Dec 07, 2023: Penn State News highlighted our work. Check the link for more details!

Oct 11, 2023: Coming back from SES 2023. Happy to present our fresh paper!

Oct 08, 2023: Our collaborative work “Biofilms as self-shaping growing nematics” is online at Nature Physics!

Jul 23, 2023: I transferred the old blog posts to this new webpage. Thanks for the author of academicpages.github.io providing the fantastic template.