Neil Lin

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
MECHANICAL AND AEROSPACE ENGINEERING
BIOENGINEERING

Email: neillin@g.ucla.edu

Websites

Lin Lab - Living Soft Material Engineering

Lin’s research looks at developing 3D-printed tissues that mimic the geometric structure, mechanical properties, and functionality of human organs. This research could lead to detailed and complex model tissues for drug screening, and ultimately, artificial organs that could be transplanted into humans.

RESEARCH AND INTERESTS

Engineering of soft and living materials
Structure, dynamics, and mechanics of biomaterials
Image-based force measurements in soft matter
Quantitative imaging for material characterizations

NOTABLE PUBLICATIONS

Google Scholar page

IN THE NEWS

Young Investigator Award - Class of 2022 | PCF, October 2022
UCLA Researchers Develop New, Noninvasive AI Method to Inspect Live Cells and Gain Critical Data, March 2021

EDUCATION

Ph.D., Cornell University, 2016
M.S., Cornell University, 2013
B.S., National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, 2008

AWARDS AND RECOGNITION

Young Investigator Award, Prostate Cancer Foundation (2022)
Maximizing Investigators' Research Award R35, NIH NIGMS (2022)
Hellman Fellowship, UCLA (2022)
Noble Family Innovation Award, UCLA CNSI (2022-2023)
BSCRC-CNSI Nanomedicine Innovation Planning Award (2020-2021)
UCLA SPORE Prostate Cancer Research Development Award (2020)
NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein Postdoctoral Fellowship (F-32) (2018 - 2019)
F. Hoffmann-La Roche Postdoctoral Fellowship (2016-2018)
ACS Colloid Langmuir Thesis Presentation Award, 2nd Prize (2016)
Poster Award, Society of Rheology Annual Meeting, Final (2014)
Studying Abroad Scholarship, Ministry of Education, Taiwan (2013)
Douglas Fitchen Memorial Award, Cornell University (2013)