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Lan Luan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rice University, affiliated with the Neuroengineering Initiative. She transitioned from Physics to Biomedical Engineering, joining Rice in 2019 after roles at Stanford, Harvard, and the University of Texas at Austin. Her research focuses on multimodal neural interfaces integrating electrical, optical, and other technologies to study brain and spinal cord activity for treating neurological disorders.
Education: B.S. in Physics (with a minor in Electrical Engineering) from the University of Science and Technology of China (2004), Ph.D. in Physics from Stanford University (2011). Postdoctoral training at Harvard University. Honors include the 2017 NHLBI Mentored Research Award and 2010 Harvard Golub Fellowship.
Research emphasizes neurotechnology for chronic neural recording and stimulation, with applications in stroke recovery, neurovascular dynamics, and neuroprosthetics. The Luan Lab collaborates with industry partners like SpikeGadgets Inc. on SBIR grants. Her work spans ultraflexible electrodes, microfluidic devices for glaucoma, and neural spike analysis.
Advising includes mentoring Ph.D., Master’s, and undergraduate students in applied physics and biomedical engineering. The lab hosts interdisciplinary teams from ECE, Bioengineering, and other disciplines. Ongoing projects explore long-term neural-vascular interactions and next-generation biocompatible interfaces.
