Bio Engineering Laboratory

BEL is an interdisciplinary hub rooted in Engineering, Computer Science, and Physics at VinUniversity's College of Engineering and Computer Science. BEL focuses on Bioimaging, Biosensors, and Biomaterials.

• Biophysics of sensing and molecular interactions in complex biological and chemical systems
  
  

• Optical methods and advanced microscopy for high-resolution, high-sensitivity bioimaging
  
  

• Optical and electrochemical sensors for healthcare, environmental, and food applications
  
  

• Nanomaterials and nanotechnology for signal amplification, selectivity, and device integration
  
  

• Biostatistics and data-driven analysis for sensor calibration, uncertainty quantification, and pattern discovery

• The Short Initiatives Grant, VN2025SIN484A101, "Designing Biosensors with Innovative Eco-Friendly Biomaterials for Detecting Pathogenic Bacteria in Aquaculture", VLIR-OUS, Belgium 70,000 EUR, 2025-2027 (PI).

• The Short-Term Stay Research Award, VLIR-OUS, Belgium 2025-2026.

• The 2024 Fundamental Research Funding Program in Natural Sciences and Engineering-103.03-2024.16, "Research on the synthesis of perovskite semiconductor nanocrystals integrated with metasurfaces to enhance the intensity and directionality of fluorescence emission for light-emitting diodes (LEDs)", (Key research member), NAFOSTED, Vietnam 130,000 USD, 2025 - 2028.

• Fast track, "Point of care biosensors to detect pathogen bacterium for early diagnosis and environmental/food safety monitoring", (PI), VinUniversity, Vietnam, 25,000 USD, June 2023- Jan 2026.

• VinUni-Illinois Smart Health Center Fund, "Detection and quantitation of cancer ctDNA and miRNA for point of care lung cancer therapy selection", (PI), VinUniversity, Vietnam, 130,000 USD to train 5 Ph.D. and Master students, Jan. 2023-July. 2033 (Link here ).

• VinUni-Illinois Smart Health Center Fund, "Evaluating the Effect of Antiviral Drugs using Polarized Light Imaging and Machine Learning Approaches: The Case of Human-induced Pluripotent Stem Cell-derived Cardiomyocytes", (PI), VinUniversity, Vietnam, 130,000 USD to train 5 Ph.D. and Master students, Jan. 2023- July. 2033 (Link here).

• Seed Grant, "3D imaging of cells and tissues using polarized light microscopy", (PI), VinUniversity, Vietnam, 75,000 USD, Jan. 2021- May. 2024.

•  Annual Professional Development Fund (PI), VinUniversity, Vietnam, 6,000 USD, 2020-present.

• JST Sakura Science Program, Co-PI, Japan, 2021

• Pack Ambition International, (Member), France, 15,000 Euro 2020-2023.

• PHYS1010 - Mechanics &Heat: Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024, Spring 2025.

• PHYS2020 - Electromagnetism: Fall 2021, Fall 2022, Fall 2023, Fall 2024, Fall 2025.

• PHYS1012 - Physics & Biophysics: Fall 2021, Fall 2022, Fall 2023, Fall 2024.

• CECS1972 - Independent Study: Spring 2021, Fall 2021, Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Spring 2023, Fall 2023, Spring 2024.

• CECS4890 - Capstone Design Project: Fall 2023.

• UROP1010/1011- Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program: Fall 2023, Spring 2024, Spring 2025, Fall 2025, Spring 2026.