Our Team

Principal Investigator

Keyue Shen

Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Associate Member of Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center
USC Stem Cell Principle Investigator
Academic Background:
  • Postdoc: Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital
  • Ph.D.: Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University
  • M.S.: Biophysics, Tsinghua University
  • B.E.: Mechanical Engineering, Tsinghua University

Doctoral Students

Hydari M Begum (4th yr)
MS, Biomedical Engineering
BE, Biotechnology
hbegum AT usc.edu
Xinyuan Zhang (1st yr)
BS, Biology
xzhang63 AT usc.edu
​Jia Hao (4th yr)
MS, Materials Science and Engineering
BE, Materials Science and Engineering​
jiahao AT usc.edu
Hao Zhou (5th yr)
MS, Chemistry
BS, Materials Science
zhouhao AT usc.edu
Jeong Min Oh (2nd yr)
BS, Biomedical Engineering
ohjeongm AT usc.edu
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Master Students

Hejun Tang

Technician

Undergraduate Students

Irene Li
Chelsea Mariano
Winfield Zhao

Former Members

Yuta Ando, PhD student, Fall 2015 - Summer 2020 (current: A2 Therapeutics, Scientist)
Daniel Yen, Undergraduate student, Fall 2015 - Summer 2019; technician, Fall 2019 - Summer 2020 (current: University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine, MD/PhD program)
Yubin Lee, High school student, SHINE program, Summer 2020
William Koh, High school student, SHINE program, Summer 2020
Bryce Li, High school student, volunteer, Summer 2020
Madeleine Tran, Undergraduate student, Fall 2018 - Summer 2020
Kristen Nemes, Undergraduate-Master student, Fall 2016 - Spring 2020
Yuanzhong Pan, Rotating PhD student, Fall 2018 - Spring 2019
Hoang Peter Ta, Master's researcher, Fall 2016 - Fall 2018
Bethany Jarvis, Undergraduate researcher, Spring 2015 - Fall, 2018
Kimberly Gorrell, Master's researcher, Fall 2017 - Fall 2018
David Palucho, High school student, STAR program, Fall 2018
Kai Li, Master's researcher, Fall 2017 - Spring 2018
Jason Hyun, High school student, SHINE program, Summer 2018 (current: Cornell University, undergraduate program)
Lindsey Marks, Undergraduate researcher, Spring 2018 - Summer 2018
Sang-Sin Lee, Undergraduate researcher, Spring 2016 - Spring 2018 (current: Rice University, PhD program)
Vincent Mei, Undergraduate researcher, Fall 2017 - Spring 2017
Sneha Raola, Undergraduate researcher, Fall 2015 - Fall 2017
Gabriel Rocha, Undergraduate and Master's researcher, Spring 2015 - Summer 2017 (current: Oxford University, PhD program)
Arjun Aron, High school student, SHINE program, Summer, 2017 (current: USC, undergraduate program)
Ray Zhang, High school student, SHINE program, Summer, 2017 (current: UCLA, undergraduate program)
Hydari Begum, Master's researcher, Fall 2015 - Spring, 2017 (current: USC, PhD program, Shen lab)
Linda Xu, Undergraduate researcher, Spring 2015 - Fall, 2015; Fall 2016 - Spring 2017
Chloe Lee, Undergraduate researcher, Fall 2016 - Spring 2017
Janeline Wong, Undergraduate researcher, Fall 2016 - Spring 2017
Brian Khin, Undergraduate researcher, Spring 2015 - Fall 2016
​​Jacob (Kuba) Nogalski, ​High school student, Summer 2016
Ryan Liu, High school student, SHINE program, Summer 2016 (current: UC Berkeley, undergraduate program)
Gunce Cinay, Rotating PhD student, Fall 2015
Jonathan Masterson, Volunteer, JHU undergraduate student, Summer 2015; Technician, 2017 Summer
Hae Lim, Rotating PhD student, Spring 2015