Xun Tang is an Assistant Professor at Cain Department of Chemical Engineering, Louisiana State University. He received his BA in Mathematics and BS from SUNY University at Buffalo in 2011 and earned his Ph.D. from Georgia Institute of Technology in 2016. He was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of California, Riverside, and Penn State University. His main research interests include control theory, modeling and optimization, statistics inference and machine learning, synthetic biology, and colloidal self-assembly.