AME - Bioprinting • Wearable Bioelectronics • Personalized Therapeutics
The Zhang Lab is creating groundbreaking 3D printing technologies to create living tissues and organs, wearable bioelectronics, and personalized therapeutic devices.
We are recruiting highly motivated undergraduate students to work at the intersection of engineering, biology, AI and medicine. Our research develops advanced multimaterial and multiscale additive manufacturing technologies for personalized health care.
Research Opportunities
3D Bioprinting & Tissue Engineering
Develop AI driven autonomous bioprinting technologies to fabricate vascularized tissues and functional organs, with applications in regenerative medicine, drug testing, and precision therapeutics.
Printed Wearable Bioelectronics
Create soft, flexible, and stretchable sensors for continuous health monitoring, including electrophysiological sensing (ECG/EMG), wearable devices, and multimodal physiological monitoring.
Personalized Therapeutics
Develop next-generation wearable or implantable systems that integrate sensing, intelligent decision-making, and localized therapy, including smart drug delivery and theranostic devices.
Students may gain hands-on experience in 3D printing, biofabrication, flexible electronics, biomaterials, sensors, microfluidics, programming, and machine learning.
Our group has published major research breakthroughs in leading journals including Nature, Nature Chemical Engineering, Advanced Materials, and Energy & Environmental Science.
We especially welcome curious, creative, and motivated students who want to take ownership of meaningful research, contribute to publications, and prepare for graduate school, medical technology, entrepreneurship, or advanced R&D.
The Zhang Research Group is a dynamic, interdisciplinary team working at the intersection of advanced manufacturing, bioengineering, materials, electronics, and AI to develop technologies for personalized health.
Students can contribute to cutting-edge research in high-resolution 3D bioprinting, wearable bioelectronics, biosensors, smart drug delivery, and personalized therapeutic devices. Our recent work includes bioprinting vascular networks at capillary-scale resolution and developing highly stretchable printed bioelectronics.
Our broader vision is to integrate AI, advanced manufacturing, sensing, and therapeutics to create technologies that continuously monitor health, model human tissues, and ultimately enable personalized treatment.
Undergraduates work alongside graduate students and postdocs, gain hands-on experience with state-of-the-art technologies, and have opportunities to take ownership of meaningful research, contribute to publications, and prepare for graduate school or careers in biomedical technology and advanced R&D.