Yu-Huan Wang
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
About Me
Hi, I’m Yu-Huan Wang, a Ph.D. candidate in Physics at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, working with Prof. Sangjin Kim. My research focuses on exploring the spatiotemporal dynamics of DNA loci and proteins in living bacterial cells using single-particle tracking and super-resolution imaging. Learn more about our work at the Kim Lab Website.
Research Interests
- Single-Molecule Biophysics
- Super-Resolution Fluorescence Microscopy
- Regulation of Gene Expression
Education
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) [2020-Present]
- PhD in Physics
- Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) [2016-2020]
- BS in Physics
- University of California, Berkeley [2019.01-2019.08]
- Visiting Student
Past Research Experience
- Kinetics of Separation of Biomolecular Complexes Under Tensile Force Constraints
- Undergraduate Thesis: Ultra-Strong Mechanical Stabilization Effects Found in Catch-to-Slip Bonds Involved in Transitions with One Intermediate State
- Evolutionary Dynamics in Biophysics
- Investigated the effect of random genetic drift and natural selection on the dynamics of two alternative alleles when the offspring distribution is skewed
- Built a population model and simulated the Site Frequency Spectrum of Eldon-Wakeley process
- Light-Matter Interaction in Condensed Matter Physics
- Made WS2 and MoS2 monolayer samples by mechanical exfoliation
- Built a microscopic photoluminescence spectrometer and measured the energy bandgap of monolayer samples
- Investigated the mechanism of electron scattering in 2D vdW materials at DC and optical field using plasma resonance physics
Honors and Awards
- Mavis Future Faculty Fellows (UIUC, 2025-2026)
- NSF Center for Quantitative Cell Biology seed grant (2025)
- “People’s choice” Poster Award (Illinois Biophysics, 2024)
- Outstanding Graduate Award (SUSTech, 2020)
- Excellent Undergraduate Thesis Award (SUSTech, 2020)
- Full Scholarship for Study Abroad (SUSTech, 2019)
- Climbing Research Grant (Guangdong Province, China, 2019)
- Full Scholarship for Academic Excellence (SUSTech, 2017-2020)