Lab Members

Dr. Longwei Liu

Assistant Professor

Department of Ophthalmology, Keck School of Medicine (Primary)

Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering (Secondary)

University of Southern California (USC)

Awards

2026 Nemirovsky Engineering and Medicine Opportunity (NEMO) Prize, USC

2026 Peer Review Panel, United Kingdom (UK) Research and Innovation (UKRI)

2025 Co-Chair, K-12 Ultrasound for Genetic Therapy Mini-Symposium

2025 NSF Pannel, Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems

2024 NIH, NIBIB Mentored Career Development Award (K01)

2023 Ming Hsieh Institute Research Award (MHIRA), USC

2023 SBIR/STTR Planning Award, USC

2018 The Outstanding Thesis Award, Tsinghua University.

2018 The Outstanding Ph.D. Graduate of Tsinghua University.

2018 The Outstanding Graduate of Beijing City, P.R. China.

2017 National Scholarship (Ph.D.), the highest scholarship in China.

2016 Guanghua Scholarship, awarded by Tsinghua University.

2015 Scholarship for Excellent Student, Tsinghua University.

2012 National Scholarship (B.S.), highest scholarship in China.

2012 Outstanding Student Scholarship (Grade 1)

2012 Top Ten Students in School of Life Science, Shandong University.

2010 Outstanding Student Scholarship (Grade 2).

PhD Students

Research Fellow

Yuxuan Wang

PhD student in Biomedical Engineering

B.S. in Veterinary Medicine from Northwest Agriculture & Forestry University and M.S. in Biomedical Engineering from USC

ywang477@usc.edu

Maurice Tang

PhD student in Biomedical Engineering

B.S. in Biochemistry from Hamilton College.

peiyangt@usc.edu

Jakie (Zijie) Zhu

PhD student in Biomedical Engineering

B.S. in Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST) .

zzijie@usc.edu

Jacob Sperber

Ophthalmology Resident at USC/LAG Medical Center

M.D. From Duke University School of Medicine

Fulbright Predoctoral Research Grant to Spain

B.A. in Psychology with High Honors in Neuroscience from Williams College

Staff/Student worker

Junhao Ma

Research Lab Tech

B.S. in immunology from Michigan State University and M.S. in Biomedical Engineering from USC

junhaom@usc.edu

Mengmei Zheng

Research Lab Specialist

B.S. from Sichuan University and M.S. in Biochemistry & Molecular Biology from USC, with years of experience in animal research and ophthalmology biology.

mengmei@usc.edu

John Kim

Student worker/ Master's student in Biomedical Engineering

B.S. in Neuroscience and M.S. in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Arizona

jkim4384@usc.edu

Undergraduate students

Alex (Muchun) Zhang

Undergraduate Student

USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences

Major: Quantitative Biology (B.S.)

alexz@usc.edu

Alexander (Alex) Choi

Undergraduate Student

Alex is a USC undergraduate student majoring in neuroscience (B.S.) on a pre-medical track.

Ethen Chen

Undergraduate Student

Ethen is a USC undergraduate student majoring in Quantitative Biology (B.S.)