PhD in Chemistry, The University of Chicago

Professor, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering

PG Programs Coordinator (Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering)

Program Director of Bioengineering Graduate Program

Prof. Fei Sun is a Professor at the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, HKUST. Before joining HKUST in 2014, he worked as a postdoctoral scholar at the Department of Chemical Engineering, Caltech (supervisor: Frances H. Arnold, 2018 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry). He obtained Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Chicago in 2012 (supervisor: Chuan He, 2022 Wolf Prize Laureate in Chemistry) and B.S. in Chemistry from Peking University in 2007. His research interests include materials synthetic biology, protein engineering, optogenetics, chemical biology, and regenerative medicine. He is the awardee of NSFC Excellent Young Scientists Scheme (2021) and the Hong Kong RGC Research Fellow (2023).  

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Ph.D., Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, HKUST, 2023
M.Sc., Analytical Chemistry, HKUST, 2018
B.S., Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University, 2017

Email: qyi@connect.ust.hk

Ph.D. Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, 2022

B.E. & B.S., Polymer Materials Engineering & Financial Mathematics, Shandong University, 2018

Email: mlicb@connect.ust.hk

Ph.D., Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, HKUST, 2024

M.Phil. Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering,HKUST, 2020

B.E., Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, 2018

Email: hkffok@connect.ust.hk

M.Phil., Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, HKUST, 2022

M.Sc., Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, HKUST, 2020

B.E., Biomedical Textile Material and Technology, Donghua University, 2019

Ph.D. student in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

Email: xhuangbn@connect.ust.hk

M.Sc., Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, HKUST, 2020

B.S., Applied Chemistry, Dalian University of Technology, 2019

B.S., Chemical Engineering, The University of Manchester, 2019

Ph.D. student in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

Email:sfangah@connect.ust.hk

B.S., Applied Chemistry, NUIST, 2019

B.S., Applied Chemistry, University of Reading, 2019

M.Res., Advanced Molecule Synthesis, Imperial College London, 2020

Ph.D. student in Life Science

Email: yxudw@connect.ust.hk 

B.E., Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, HKUST, 2021

Ph.D. student in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

HKPFS fellow

Email: mjalvina@connect.ust.hk

M.Phil., Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, HKUST, 2023

M.Sc., Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, HKUST, 2021

B.S., Materials Science and Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, 2019

Ph.D. student in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

Email: dcuiaa@connect.ust.hk

M.Phil., Technology Leadership & Entrepreneurship, HKUST, 2019

B.S., Biochemistry and Cell Biology, HKUST, 2013

Ph.D. student in Bioengineering

Email: kcwongap@connect.ust.hk

M.Sc., Medicine, Peking Union Medical College & Tsinghua University, 2022  

B.S., Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, 2019  PhD student in Bioengineering 

Email: yliof@connect.ust.hk

M.Sc., Biotechnology, HKUST, 2023

B.S., Medicine, MUST & University of Macau, 2022

Ph.D. student in Bioengineering

Email: yhuangfs@connect.ust.hk

M.Sc., Biomolecular Engineering and Health Informatics, HKUST, 2024

B.S., Applied Chemistry(Elites), Dalian University of Technology, 2023

Ph.D. student in Bioengineering

Email: wzhouau@connect.ust.hk

M.Phil., Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, HKUST, 2023

B.S., Chemistry, HKUST, 2021

Ph.D. student in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

Email: fhhung@connect.ust.hk

M.Sc., Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, HKUST, 2023

B.S., Chemistry, HKUST, 2022

M.Phil. student in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

Email: zcwu@connect.ust.hk

M.Sc., Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, HKUST, 2022

B.S., Chemical Engineering, Technion, 2021

M.Phil. student in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

Email: whuangbo@connect.ust.hk

M.Sc. Biomolecular Engineering and Health Informatics, HKUST, 2024.

B.S., Biotechnology, SunYat-Sen University, 2023

M.Phil. student in Bioengineering

Email: ywugr@connect.ust.hk

M.Sc., Biotechnology, HKUST, 2015

B.S., Biotechnology, Hainan University, 2014

Email: cherryqylu@ust.hk

Associate Research Fellow, PKU-HKUST medical center, Shenzhen, China 2018.07-present

Postdoctoral Fellow 2014.11-2018.04

Ph.D., Biotechnology/Biophysics, Nankai University, 2011

B.S., Biotechnology, Nankai University, 2005

Email: kousongzi@hotmail.com

PhD

• Hong Kiu Francis FOK, “Spectral Tuning of Cobalamin (B12)-Dependent Photoreceptor Proteins for Inducible Biomaterials” ( Completed in 2024)
• Qikun YI, “Controlled Assembly of Biomaterials Enabled by Specific Protein-Protein Interactions” ( Completed in 2022 )
• Manjia LI, “Optogenetic Control over Protein Phase Transition”  ( Completed in 2022 )
• Byung Min PARK, “Engineering a Near-Infrared Light-Responsive Protein for Bioimaging and New Materials”  ( Completed in 2021 )
• Jiren LUO, “Developing Bio-inspired Materials via Controlled Protein Assembly”  ( Completed in 2020 )
• Xiaotian LIU, “Developing New Protein Self-Assembling Strategies for Biomaterials Design and Synthesis”  ( Completed in 2019 )
• Zhongguang YANG, “Developing Entirely Protein-Based Hydrogel Materials with Dynamically Tunable Properties via Uncommon Protein Architectures”  ( Completed in 2019 )
• Yujie CAO, “Developing Functional Biomaterials via Directed Protein Assembly”  ( Completed in 2018 )
• Ri WANG, “Develop Protein-Based Photoresponsive Hydrogels for Biomedical Applications”  ( Completed in 2018 )

MPhil

• Xiaoyuan SHEN, "Development of functional living materials for plastic degradation"( Completed in 2024 )

• Juwon LEE, “Development of functional living materials for monoclonal antibody purification”( Completed in 2024 )
• Fungho HUNG, (Co-supervised with Prof. Hanyu GAO at CBE)"Organic chemical reaction mechanism search using machine learning"( Completed in 2024 )
• Chenbo SUN, “Nanoparticle Vaccine Assembly Based on SpyStapler-Mediated Protein/Peptide Ligation” ( Completed in 2023 )
• Duo CUI, “Optogenetic Control for Gap Junctions” ( Completed in 2023 )
• Xinyu HUANG, “Controlling Macromolecular Topologies via Inducible Protein/Protein Conjugation” ( Completed in 2022 )
• Mengxian CHEN (co-supervision), “Identifying Potential Axon Growth Regulators In Vitro” ( Completed in 2022 )
• Bojing JIANG, “Development of Multidimensional Protein Materials for Biomedical Applications” ( Completed in 2021 )
• Tsz Chun Victor TSANG, (Co-supervised with Prof. Terence WONG at CBE) “Development of Chlorophyll-based Protein Contrast Agent for Deep Tissue in vivo Photoacoustic Imaging” ( Completed in 2021 )
• Hong Kiu Francis FOK, “From 4-Arm Star Proteins to Diverse Stimuli-Responsive Molecular Networks Enabled by Orthogonal Genetically Encoded Click Chemistries” ( Completed in 2020 )
• Ka Chin WONG, “Commercialization of Protein-Based Photoresponsive Hydrogels for 3D Cell Culture Applications”( Completed in 2019 )
• Byung Min PARK, “Synthesis of an Entirely Protein Based Adhesive Hydrogel Enabled by Enzymatic Oxidation” ( Completed in 2018 )
• Jiren LUO, “Developing bio-inspired stimuli-responsive protein materials”( Completed in 2017 )
• Wendi XIAO, “Entirely Genetically-Engineered Protein Hydrogels with Tunable Properties” ( Completed in 2017)