People – Hsiao Lab

Lilian C. Hsiao | Principal Investigator

University Faculty Scholar & Associate Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

B.S. Chemical Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison (2008)
Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan (2014)
Postdoc Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2014-2016)

Office: 2088D, Engineering Building I
e-mail: lilian_hsiao (at) ncsu.edu
Tel: 919-515-8057
Bluesky: @LilianHsiao

Awards and Honors
2025 University Faculty Scholar, NC State
2025 APS Division of Soft Matter Early Career Award
2024    Society of Rheology Metzner Award
2024 L. E. Scriven Young Investigator Award
2024    Air Force Research Laboratory Summer Faculty Fellowship
2023    Early-Career and Emerging Researchers, The Journal of Physical Chemistry A/B/C
2022 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award
2022 Goodnight Early Career Innovators Award, NC State
2022 Sloan Research Fellowship
2021 American Chemical Society Unilever Award
2021 National Science Foundation CAREER Award
2020 Soft Matter Emerging Investigator, RSC Journals
2019 AIChE Journal Futures Scholar
2019 AAAS Marion Milligan Mason Award
2016 MIT Chemical Engineering Individual Accomplishment Award
2014 Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship, University of Michigan
2012 AIChE Fluid Mechanics Division Poster Award
2006-2008 Meyer Scholarship, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Curriculum Vitae
Google Scholar profile
We Are The Wolfpack: Meet Lilian Hsiao

Hobbies: Fishing, video games, adventures, dogs

Postdocs

Chenxian Xu | Postdoc in Chemical Engineering

B.E. Chemical Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology (2017)

M.S. Chemical Engineering, University of Illinois Chicago (2018)

Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, University of Illinois Chicago (2023)

e-mail: cxu36 (at) ncsu.edu

Research interests: Foams and emulsions, interfacial phenomena, fluid mechanics, rheology

Google Scholar for Chenxian

Hobbies: Playing board games and reading

Doctoral Students

Seonghyeon “Parker” Park | Ph.D. student in Chemical Engineering (co-advised with Orlin Velev and Saad Khan)

M.S. Mechatronics System Engineering, Simon Fraser University (2018)
B.S. Metallurgical Material Engineering, University of Texas at El Paso (2015)

email: spark62 (at) ncsu.edu

Research area: Sustainable colloids for cleansing and foaming formulation

Hobbies: Traveling, beer & wine tasting

Nazanin Shakoury | Ph.D. Student in Chemical Engineering

B.S. Chemical Engineering – Polymers, Tehran University (2013)
M.Sc. Polymer Engineering, Tehran University (2016)

e-mail: nshakou (at) ncsu.edu

Research area: Aging of nanoemulsion gels

Hobbies: Cooking, baking, crossword puzzles, pilates & sketching

Kushal Yadav | Ph.D. Student in Chemical Engineering

B.Tech. Chemical Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Rourkela (2019)
M.Tech. Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Dhanbad (2022)

e-mail: kyadav3 (at) ncsu.edu

Research area: Bioinspired tribological systems

Hobbies: Cricket, soccer, hiking & traveling

Luz Meza | Ph.D. student in Forest Biomaterial & Chemical Engineering (co-advised with Richard Venditti)

B.S. Chemical Engineering, University of Los Andes, Venezuela (2018)
e-mail: lmezaca (at) ncsu.edu

Research area: Flexible Cellulose Films

Hobbies: Biking, videogames, cooking

Shourie Yerabati | Ph.D. Student in Chemical Engineering

B.Tech Chemical Engineering, B V Raju Institute of Technology (2021)

e-mail: syeraba (at) ncsu.edu

Research area: Composite soft materials, colloidal aging phenomena

Hobbies: Cooking, trekking, gaming & cricket

Oluwatobi Ojuade | Ph.D. student in Chemical Engineering

B.S. Chemical Engineering, University of Lagos, Nigeria (2018)
email: oaojuade (at) ncsu.edu

Research area: Tribology of stimuli-responsive elastomers

Hobbies: Playing football (soccer), running, playing video games, and hiking

Pedro Henrique Wink Reis | Ph.D. student in Chemical Engineering (co-advised with Orlin Velev)

B.S. Chemical Engineering, University of Oklahoma (2022)

email: pwinkre (at) ncsu.edu

Research area: Hydrogel-based tactile sensors

Hobbies: Hiking, traveling, and playing music

Cormak Weeks | Ph.D. student in Chemical Engineering (co-advised with Wentao Tang)

B.S. Chemical Engineering, Texas Tech University (2022)

B.S. Chemistry, Texas Tech University (2022)

e-mail: clweeks (at) ncsu.edu

Research area: AI-driven control of printed soft materials

Hobbies: Swimming, painting, cooking, and traveling

Riley Dowdy-Green | Ph.D. Student in Chemical Engineering

B.S. Environmental Engineering, NC State University (2019)

e-mail: redowdyg (at) ncsu.edu

Research area: 3D printing of functional materials

Hobbies: Reading, playing video games, walking my dog, and when inspired, working on art projects

Rony Waheibi | Ph.D. Student in Chemical Engineering

B.S. Chemical Engineering, University of Rochester (2021)

e-mail: rawaheib (at) ncsu.edu

Research area: Colloids, networks, and imaging

Hobbies: Running, traveling, chess, and economics

Yug Saraswat | Ph.D. Student in Chemical Engineering

B.Tech. Chemical Engineering, Institute of Technology, Nirma University (2016)
M.Sc. Chemical Engineering, Delft University of Technology (2018)

e-mail: ysarasw (at) ncsu.edu

Research area: Colloidal suspension rheology

Hobbies: Writing poetry, reading thriller novels, swimming, cooking

Masters Students

Mushtaq Ahmed Shaikh | MS Student in Computer Science

B.E. Electronics and Communication Engineering, R V College of Engineering (2020)
e-mail: mshaikh2 (at) ncsu.edu

Research area: Image processing, machine learning, large language models, and parallel computing

Hobbies: Music, mountaineering, football, swimming

Alumni (PhD and Masters):

Pallav Jani (TE Connectivity)
Ashika Verma (Eurofins)
Shivani Sutrave
Christopher Serfass
Kristine Smith (Bristol-Myers Squibb)
Shravan Pradeep (Postdoc, UPenn, Doug Jerolmack & Paulo Arratia)
Yunhu Peng (Seagen)
Alan Jacob (Assistant Professor, IIT Hyderabad)
Henry Ho (Nexa3D)
Elizabeth Cass (Regeneron)