PhD Candidate
University of Texas at Austin
Ziyue is a fourth-year Ph.D. candidate in Pharmaceutical Sciences at The University of Texas at Austin. His research focuses on developing hot-melt extrusion processes for manufacturing long-acting non-biodegradable implants, investigating the relationship between implant material/structure properties and complex drug-release mechanisms, and applying mathematical modeling to simulate drug-release kinetics.
Before joining UT, he earned his M.S. in Chemical Engineering from the New Jersey Institute of Technology in 2016 and worked for five years at Praxgen Pharmaceuticals as a formulation scientist, specializing in formulation development and process optimization of oral solid dosage forms. He is a two-time Best Abstract Award recipient at PharmaSci 360 and has published four peer-reviewed manuscripts during his graduate studies.