Dr. Bao is currently the William K. Luckow Associate Professor at the Davidson School of Chemical Engineering and active member of Purdue Institute for Cancer Research. His research program at Purdue University focuses on stem cell bioengineering and immunoengineering. Dr. Bao earned his B.S. degree from Tsinghua University in 2011 and his Ph.D. from University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2016. Prior to Purdue, Dr. Bao was a post-doc fellow at the University of California-Berkeley (2016 to 2018). Dr. Bao was recent awardees of Young Investigator Award 2022 of Cells Tissues Organs Journal, 2023 BMES-CMBE Rising Star Junior Faculty Award, NSF CAREER Award, NIH Stephen Katz Early Stage Investigator Research Project Grant, Showalter Research Trust Young Investigator Award, Purdue Institute for Cancer Research Robbers New Investigator Award and Early Career Research Achievement Award.