Bonnie Danqing Zhu, Ph.D.

Principal Investigator

Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, HKUST

Bonnie Zhu is an Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering at HKUST. She obtained her B.Sc. in Engineering Science from the University of Virginia with the highest distinction. Afterward, she attended Stanford University and earned her M.S. and Ph.D. in Bioengineering, working with Prof. Fan Yang and Prof. Sarah Heilshorn to develop novel biomaterials and in vitro models of tissue regeneration that capture the dynamic cell-extracellular matrix interactions. Finally, she conducted her postdoctoral training with Siebel Stem Cell Fellowship & CIRM Fellowship in the laboratory of Prof. David Schaffer at the University of California, Berkeley, working on the development of machine-learning guided approach to design viral vectors for therapeutic applications. Her research background is highly interdisciplinary and spans across related fields of materials science, protein engineering, gene therapy, and machine learning. 

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Awards and Honors 

• California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) Fellowship, 2021-2023

• Siebel Stem Cell Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2018-2020

• TERMIS Student Scientist Award, 2017 

• Bio-X Interdisciplinary Stanford Graduate Fellowship, 2015-2018

• BMES Innovation and Career Development Award, 2014

• Stanford Graduate Fellowship, 2012-2015

• Rodman Scholar Honors Program, 2009-2012