This website is still very much under construction!!!
About
Hi! My name is Kevin, and I’ll be starting my PhD at Stanford Bioengineering this Fall 2024. I spent the past two years working as a laboratory instructor at MIT where I also completed my undergraduate studies with the departments of Biological Engineering and EECS.
Research interests
Biological engineering is the application of engineering principles to life itself. We can tweak the behavior of biological systems — a single cell, for example — to make it perform work that is useful for our own human goals, just as electrical engineers have nudged electrons into circuits that process radio signals within our phones. For any discipline of engineering, one needs building blocks and ways of connecting them to build sophisticated systems. In other words, the first step to building a Lego house is to have Lego blocks you know and trust.
So, what are the building blocks of biological engineering?
My scientific journey revolves around this question. I think about what latent building blocks are out there waiting to be recognized. I also think about what building blocks we can make with the knowledge and principles already available to us. Physics and math are the lens through which I look for these patterns in nature; engineering and computation are the frameworks through which I implement these patterns. Nature inspires. We copy.
Writing Tracker
I'm still working on this writing tracker to help me make writing a measureable habit. As you can see, it's largely inspired by GitHub.
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Past work
- Summer 2024: COMSOL project for Micro/Nanofluidics Bio MEMS Group @ MIT
- Summer 2023: Project Tyko and biomanufacturing collaboration with Richard Wu
- Summer 2021: Researched single-cell growth dynamics under the guidance of Teemu Miettinen, Ph.D. and Professor Scott Manalis. A paper was recently published as a result of this work!
- Summer 2020: Interned at miniPCR developing new discovery modules to teach high schoolers synthetic biology using cell-free kits. Mentored by Ally Huang, Ph.D.
- Summer 2019: Researched the development of carbon-capture biological materials using M13 bacteriophase under the guidance of Eric Lehnhardt and Professor Angela Belcher.
Interests
Some things I enjoy learning and talking about:
- Photography
- Soft condensed matter physics (reading this textbook)
- Microcontrollers and embedded development (tinkering with Embedded Rust)
- Personal knowledge management (Zettelkasten and Obsidian.md enjoyer)
- Philolosophy (epistemology) of the natural sciences
Contact
kevinsly [at] stanford [dot] edu
This Website
This website is powered by Jekyll and I’m using the template inspired by Kanjun Qiu. It’s hosted by a humble Raspberry Pi 5 from my room.