- Teaching
- Lectures
- Supervising/Mentoring
- Invited Talks
- Knowledge Translation
- Conferences
Teaching
Lectures
PHAR515 (Nanomedicines) UBC, Feb.2025
Guest Lecturer on the topic of mRNA vaccine (~60 graduate students)
ImmunoT MicroCourse (Vaccine and Infectious Diseases) Online, Dec.2024
Guest Lecturer (~40 undergraduate students)
MSE-245 (Soft Matter) EPFL, 2021-2022
Teaching Assistant (~80 graduate students)
Industry 4.0 Business School, Hohai University, 2017
Guest Lecturer (~100 students)
Supervising/Mentoring
2025/09-2026/04 Gargi Rao, Undergraduate Directed Studies, UBC
2025/05-2025/09 Angeline Brasseur (co-supervised with Credo Casmil), Summer Intern from Polytech Nice Sophia
2024/10-2025/04 Elli Chan and Sherinay Mahsut, SUS Mentorship Program, UBC
2023/08-2025/06 Shuangyu Wang, Research Assistant, UBC
Projects: Fractionation of lipid nanoparticles | Endosomal escape of lipid nanoparticles
2023/06-2024/03 Melody Cheng, Undergraduate Honor Thesis, UBC
Project: Sequential assembly of lipid nanoparticles
2021/01-2021/07 Arthur Eliot Bouchez, Master Student, EPFL
Project: Ligand functionalized single chain nanoparticles for intracellular drug delivery
2021/04-2021/08 Tina Torabi, Summer Intern, EPFL
2020/06-2021/02 Laura Cabizzosu, Master Student, EPFL
Project: Drug Loading into single chain nanoparticles
2019/01-2019/06 Jiaying Hou, Master Student, EPFL
Project: Surface ratio of alloy nanoparticles characterized via MALDI-TOF
2018/12-2019/05 Edgar Smit, Bachelor Student, EPFL
Project: Surface composition evolution of gold and silver alloy nanoparticles
2018/07-2019/01 Océane Fort, Master Student, EPFL
Project: Single-chain polymer nanoparticle synthesis
2018/01-2018/06 Jingwen Wang (co-supervised with Dr. Zhi Luo), Master Student, EPFL
Project: Temperature and pH responsive single chain polymeric nanoparticle
2016/05-2017/05 Yusen Zhao and Jie Ren, Tsinghua University
Project: Draw-spinning of polymer fibers
Invited Talks
(Invited talk) Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Research Conference Stevenson, WA, USA, Jun.2025
Title: Designing Lipid Nanoparticles for RNA therapeutics
(Invited talk) TIDES USA: Oligonucleotide & Peptide Therapeutics. San Diego, CA, USA, May.2025
(Invited webinar) Invited by Beckman Coulter Online, Apr.2025
Title: Transfection Potency of Lipid Nanoparticles Containing mRNA Depends on Relative Loading Levels
(Rising Star Lecture) CRSingapore2025 Singapore, 2025, Feb.2025
Title: Designing Lipid Nanoparticles for RNA therapeutics
(Trainee Seminar Award) Vancouver RNA club Vancouver, Canada, Sep.2024
Title: Lipid nanoparticle design from mRNA vaccines to therapeutics
(Invited talk) Presentation to Joerg Lahann lab at UMich Online, Jul.2022
(Invited talk) Presentation to Jeremiah Johnson lab at MIT Online, Jul.2022
(Selected talk) EPFL Initiative for Cancer Science and Engineering retreat Lausanne, Switzerland, May.2022
(Invited talk) Presentation to Michael Mitchell lab at UPenn Online, Apr.2022
Knowledge Translation
Conferences
(6 invited talks: 6 selected talks; 10 posters)
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1. (Oral presentation) Vancouver Area Mass Spectrometry Vancouver, Canada, Nov.2025
2. (Oral presentation) MSL Seminar Series Vancouver, Canada, Sep.2025
3. (Poster) Canadian Society of Pharmacology and Therapeutics Annual Meeting Vancouver, Canada, Jun.2025
4. (Invited talk) Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Research Conference Stevenson, WA, USA, Jun.2025
5. (Oral presentation) Diabetes & Obesity Research Day 2025 Kelowna, Canada, May.2025
6. (Invited talk) TIDES USA: Oligonucleotide & Peptide Therapeutics San Diego, CA, USA, May.2025
7. (Invited webinar) Invited by Beckman Coulter Online, Apr.2025
8. (Rising Star Lecture) CRSingapore2025 Singapore, Feb.2025
9. (Trainee Seminar Award) Vancouver RNA club Vancouver, Canada, Sep.2024
10. (Top Poster Award) Control Release Society 2024 Annual Meeting and Expo Bologna, Italy, Jul.2024
11. (Participation) XRay Diffraction & Scattering Summer School Saskatoon, Canada, Jun.2024
12. (Poster) Nanomedicine Innovation Network 2024 Research Conference Vancouver, Canada, Jan.2024
13. (Poster Judging) Vancouver Nanomedicine Day 2023 Vancouver, Canada, Nov.2023
14. (Poster) International School of Materials for Sustainable Development & Energy Erice, Italy, Jul.2022
15. (Poster) Gordon Research Conference Bioinspired Materials Les Diablerets, Switzerland, Jun.2022
16. (Invited talk) Presentation to Joerg Lahann lab at UMich Online, Jul.2022
17. (Invited talk) Presentation to Jeremiah Johnson lab at MIT Online, Jul.2022
18. (Selected talk) EPFL Initiative for Cancer Science and Engineering retreat Lausanne, Switzerland, May.2022
19. (Invited talk) Presentation to Michael Mitchell lab at UPenn Online, Apr.2022
20. (Poster) EDMX research day at EPFL Online, Feb.2021
21. (Pitch talk and poster) EDMX research day at EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland, Nov.2019
22. (Poster) Bioinspired Materials Monte Verità, Switzerland, Oct.2019
23. (Poster) FEBS workshop: Hydrodynamic and thermodynamic analysis Prague, Czech Republic, Sep.2018
24. (Poster) CCMX workshop Nanoparticles: from Fundamentals to applications in Life Science
Kandersteg, Switzerland, Jan.2018 -
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- Conference travel map (updated on 20250718)
