Past Student Fellows
Tzu-Chieh (Zijay) Tang
- PhD Candidate
- 2017-2018 J-WAFS Fellow
- Department of Biological Engineering
Tzu-Chieh Tang (Zijay) is a PhD candidate in the Department of Biological Engineering at MIT, where he works as a research assistant in both the Synthetic Biology Group in the Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE) and the Mediated Matter research group at the MIT Media Lab. Zijay is interested in biologically inspired engineering. His current research combines synthetic biology and materials design to build functional living materials that can sense, compute, memorize, and respond to environmental stimuli.
News
- Former J-WAFS Fellow Zijay Tang interviewed about his environmental sensor research
- J-WAFS fellow Zijay Tang tackles overlooked environmental challenges with Syn-SCOBY
- J-WAFS fellow Zijay Tang creates a water filtering biomaterial inspired by kombucha tea
- J-WAFS fellow, Zijay Tang awarded Lemelson-MIT Prize for development of living water filters
- J-WAFS Fellow, Tzu-Chieh Tang has been awarded a 2020 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize for his work on synthetic living water filters
- J-WAFS Student Spotlight: MIT PhD student grows a living water sensor
- Three MIT students selected for inaugural J-WAFS fellowships for water solutions