Rate My Professor Ian Wong

Professor Wong's research centers on engineering miniaturized technologies such as BioMEMS and microfluidic platforms to study cancer cell invasion, phenotypic plasticity, and therapeutic resistance. His interests extend to biomaterials, nanofabrication, 3D printing, directed self-assembly, and polymer physics. He holds affiliations with Brown's Pathobiology Graduate Program, Legorretta Cancer Center, and Data Science Institute. Wong has been honored with the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, Damon Runyon Cancer Research Fellowship, 2015 Nathalie Rutherford Pierrepont Prize for leadership and career advising, 2025 Dean’s Award for Excellence in Mentoring in Engineering, and selection for the National Academy of Engineering’s Japan-America Frontiers of Engineering Symposium. Key publications encompass "Anomalous diffusion probes microstructure dynamics of entangled F-actin networks" (Physical Review Letters, 2004), "Collective and individual migration following the epithelial-mesenchymal transition" (Nature Materials, 2014), "Nanotechnology: emerging tools for biology and medicine" (Genes & Development, 2013), "The epithelial-mesenchymal transition and the cytoskeleton in bioengineered systems" (Cell Communication and Signaling, 2021), and "Mechanophenotyping of 3D multicellular clusters using traction force microscopy" (PNAS, 2020). His scholarship has amassed over 3,700 citations, underscoring his impact in bioengineering, materials science, and oncology. Wong also serves as Associate Scientific Advisor for Science Translational Medicine.