Assistant Professor of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
Office Location N229 Engineering Building 1
Phone 315-391-2457
Fax 713-743-4503
Emailjluan [at] Central.UH.EDU
Education
Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Washington University in St. Louis
Postdoctoral training, Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University.
Professional Experience
Assistant Professor of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, University of Houston, Fall 2024-Present
Courses Taught
MECE 5397: Biomaterials and Nanotechnology, undergraduate level
MECE 6397: Biomaterials and Nanotechnology, graduate level
Research Interests
Jingyi Luan’s research at UH focus on the development of nanophotonic, plasmonic, and DNA nanotechnologies to create next-generation molecular diagnostics and personalized treatments.
Awards & Honors
2025 Early Career Board Member, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
Selected Publications
Jada R, Luan J. Toward Real-Time Monitoring of Macromolecular Biomarkers: A Materials Roadmap for Continuous Biosensing. In submission to ACS Appl Mater Interfaces. 2025
Lun, X.K., Sheng, K., Yu, X., Lam, C.Y., Gowri, G., Serrata, M., Zhai, Y., Su, H., Luan, J., Kim, Y. and Ingber, D.E., 2025. Signal amplification by cyclic extension enables high-sensitivity single-cell mass cytometry. Nature biotechnology. 2024
Liang C*, Luan J*, Wang Z, Jiang Q, Gupta R, Cao S, Liu KK, Morrissey JJ, Kharasch ED, Naik RR, Singamaneni S. Gold Nanorod Size-Dependent Fluorescence Enhancement for Ultrasensitive Fluoroimmunoassays. ACS Appl Mater Interfaces. 2021
Wang Z*, Luan J*, Seth A, Liu L, You M, Gupta P, Rathi P, Wang Y, Cao S, Jiang Q, Zhang X, Gupta R, Zhou Q, Morrissey JJ, Scheller EL, Rudra JS, SingamaneniS. Microneedle patch for the ultrasensitive quantification of protein biomarkers in interstitial fluid. Nat Biomed Eng. 2021
Luan J, Seth A, Gupta R, Wang Z, Rathi P, Cao S, Gholami Derami H, Tang R, Xu B, Achilefu S, Morrissey JJ, Singamaneni S. Ultrabright fluorescent nanoscale labels for the femtomolar detection of analytes with standard bioassays. Nat Biomed Eng. 2020
Luan J, Morrissey JJ, Wang Z, Derami HG, Liu KK, Cao S, Jiang Q, Wang C, Kharasch ED, Naik RR, Singamaneni S. Add-on plasmonic patch as a universal fluorescence enhancer. Light Sci Appl. 2018
