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Pengyu Chen

Mechanical Engineering

Francis Family Associate Professor

Ginn Faculty Achievement Fellow

276 Wilmore Laboratories

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Education

Ph.D. Materials Science and Engineering, Clemson University
M.S. Materials Science and Engineering, Clemson University
B.S. Materials Science and Engineering, Nanjing University

Research Interests

Nanoplasmonic Biosensors
Single-cell Analysis
Precision Medicine
Protein-nanomaterial Interaction
Food and Environmental Safety

In The News

NIH awards another $1.9M toward Auburn Engineering’s transformative research into rapid immunodiagnostics

Pengyu Chen, the Francis Family Associate Professor and Ginn Faculty Achievement Fellow in the Department of Materials Engineering, believes he'll soon be able to immediately unlock the secrets of your immune system with a single finger-prick. The National Institutes of Health continues to believe it, too.

Four engineering professors recipients of Auburn's internal research and creative works funding programs

Congratulations, Chris Kieslich, Michael Howard, Pengyu Chen and Chad Rose!

Auburn Engineering posts banner year for research in fiscal year 2020

The Auburn University Samuel Ginn College of Engineering has again posted a banner year for externally sponsored projects, bringing in more than $74 million in awards during fiscal year 2020.

Auburn researcher awarded $2.6 million NIH grant for cancer immunotherapy research

Pengyu Chen, assistant professor of materials engineering, was recently awarded a $2.6 million RO1 grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop a biosensor designed to guide a novel immunotherapy for better treating cancer, specifically leukemia.

Auburn Engineering faculty collaborating on COVID-19 sensing device

Two assistant professors in the Auburn University Samuel Ginn College of Engineering have received a $200,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to develop a biosensor that will rapidly detect COVID-19.

Three engineering faculty members receive NSF Early Career awards totaling more than $1.6 million

Three more Auburn Engineering faculty have been selected for the prestigious National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) program.

Auburn Engineering posts banner year in research

The Samuel Ginn College of Engineering brought in $59.6 million in externally sponsored research awards from Oct. 1, 2018 to Sept. 30, 2019. The college has also placed in the top 10% of engineering institutions in the nation for research expenditures for the past 15 years.

Auburn researcher receives $1.9 million grant for rapid immune diagnostics

Assistant professor Pengyu Chen will use a $1.9 million National Institutes of Health grant to develop next-generation, rapid diagnostic tools for the health care industry.

Auburn’s first ‘Engineering as Art’ exhibit looks to showcase STEM’s creative side

For the next two weeks, the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering will be giving Auburn's Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art a run for it its money.