I am an Assistant Research Professor in the Department of Bioengineering at Rice University. I have been working in the multidisciplinary fields of Nanotechnology, Biology and Medicine. My early research was focused on the functional study of cytoskeleton-related proteins and understanding their roles in disease onset and progression. Then I have been applying the knowledge and training from the field of biomedicine to developing nanotechnologies for disease diagnosis and treatment. I developed magnetic nanoparticle-based approaches for targeted delivery of genes and drugs. I also systemically studied the magnetic heating properties of iron oxide nanoparticles. My current research is focused on leveraging magnetic nanoparticles to modulate the immune system for the treatment of cancer.