Neil Lin

Associate Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California Los Angeles

Associate Professor, Bioengineering, University of California Los Angeles

Associate Professor, Urology, University of California Los Angeles

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Publications

  1. Chen J, Hong Y, Bermudez A, Hu J, Hsieh CJ, Lin N. Synthesizing Mechanistic Hypotheses from Single-Cell Omics via Discretized Feature Attribution and Empirical Language Model Grounding.. bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology, 2026.
  2. Li S, Kim Y, Wang K, Payson EJ, Tang AA, Villalba Nieto M, Osmanovic D, Yang M, Dilao D, Bermudez A, Xiao W, Li MMH, Lin NYC, Plath K, Black DL, Franco E. Programmable artificial RNA condensates in mammalian cells.. Nature nanotechnology, 2026.
  3. Hong Y, Kao KC, Edwards L, Liu NT, Huang CY, Oliveira-Kowaleski A, Hsieh CJ, Lin NYC. Adaptive diagnostic reasoning framework for pathology with multimodal large language models.. Communications medicine, 2026.
  4. Bermudez A, Latham Z, Diaz J, Yan W, Chen J, Bi D, Goldstein A, Hu JK, Lin NYC. Cell jamming transition is regulated by mitochondrial pyruvate transport and endocytosis.. bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology, 2026.
  5. Li S, Kim Y, Wang K, Payson EJ, Tang AA, Nieto MV, Osmanovic D, Yang M, Dilao D, Bermudez A, Xiao W, Li MMH, Lin NYC, Plath K, Black DL, Franco E. Programmable artificial RNA condensates in mammalian cells.. bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology, 2026.
  6. Lo CH, Shi K, Kafadarian L, Bermudez A, Diaz J, Edwards L, Hong Y, Chen Z, Hwang H, Yan W, Levinson A, Damoiseaux R, Hsieh CJ, Stoyanova T, Goldstein AS, Lin NYC. Mechanistic Language Modeling and Oxygenated 3D Screening Reveal Berberine and Enzalutamide Synergy in Resistant Prostate Cancer.. bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology, 2026.
  7. Chen J, Sloan I, Bermudez A, Choi D, Tsai MH, Jin L, Hu JK, Lin N. Nucleo-cytoskeletal coupling controls intracellular deformation partitioning during cell stretching.. Royal Society open science, 2025.
  8. Zhang X, Smith J, Zhou AC, Duong JT, Qi T, Chen S, Lin YJ, Gill A, Lo CH, Lin NYC, Wen J, Lu Y, Chiou PY. Large-scale acoustic single cell trapping and selective releasing.. Lab on a chip, 2025.
  9. Lin N, Abbas-Aghababazadeh F, Su J, Wu AJ, Lin C, Shi W, Xu W, Haibe-Kains B, Liu FF, Kwan JYY. Development of Machine Learning Models for Predicting Radiation Dermatitis in Breast Cancer Patients Using Clinical Risk Factors, Patient-Reported Outcomes, and Serum Cytokine Biomarkers.. Clinical breast cancer, 2025.
  10. Bermudez A, Latham ZD, Ma AJ, Bi D, Hu JK, Lin NYC. Regulation of chromatin modifications through coordination of nucleus size and epithelial cell morphology heterogeneity.. Communications biology, 2025.
  11. Bermudez A, Latham ZD, Ma AJ, Bi D, Hu JK, Lin NYC. Regulation of Chromatin Modifications through Coordination of Nucleus Size and Epithelial Cell Morphology Heterogeneity.. bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology, 2025.
  12. Lin C, Su J, Wu AJ, Lin N, Hossack MS, Shi W, Xu W, Liu FF, Kwan JYY. External Validation of a 5-Factor Risk Model for Breast Cancer-Related Lymphedema.. JAMA network open, 2025.
  13. Latham ZD, Bermudez A, Hu JK, Lin NYC. Regulation of epithelial cell jamming transition by cytoskeleton and cell-cell interactions.. Biophysics reviews, 2024.
  14. Li S, Gee A, Cai N, Bermudez A, Lin NYC. An open-source membrane stretcher for simultaneous mechanical and structural characterizations of soft materials and biological tissues.. HardwareX, 2024.
  15. Li S, Gee A, Cai N, Bermudez A, Lin NYC. An Open-Source Membrane Stretcher for Simultaneous Mechanical and Structural Characterizations of Soft Materials and Biological Tissues.. bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology, 2024.
  16. Bermudez A, Muñoz SN, Blaik R, Rowat AC, Hu J, Lin NYC. Using Histologic Image Analysis to Understand Biophysical Regulations of Epithelial Cell Morphology.. Biophysicist (Rockville, Md.), 2023.
  17. Giafaglione JM, Crowell PD, Delcourt AML, Hashimoto T, Ha SM, Atmakuri A, Nunley NM, Dang RMA, Tian M, Diaz JA, Tika E, Payne MC, Burkhart DL, Li D, Navone NM, Corey E, Nelson PS, Lin NYC, Blanpain C, Ellis L, Boutros PC, Goldstein AS. Prostate lineage-specific metabolism governs luminal differentiation and response to antiandrogen treatment.. Nature cell biology, 2023.
  18. Imboden S, Liu X, Payne MC, Hsieh CJ, Lin NYC. Trustworthy in silico cell labeling via ensemble-based image translation.. Biophysical reports, 2023.
  19. Payne MC, Ho S, Hashimoto T, Imboden S, Diaz JA, Lee BS, Rupert MJ, Cai NY, Goldstein AS, Lin NYC. Microwell-based flow culture increases viability and restores drug response in prostate cancer spheroids.. Biotechnology journal, 2023.
  20. Weber L, Lee BS, Imboden S, Hsieh CJ, Lin NYC. Phenotyping senescent mesenchymal stromal cells using AI image translation.. Current research in biotechnology, 2023.
  21. Zhang X, Son R, Lin YJ, Gill A, Chen S, Qi T, Choi D, Wen J, Lu Y, Lin NYC, Chiou PY. Rapid prototyping of functional acoustic devices using laser manufacturing.. Lab on a chip, 2022.
  22. Bermudez A, Gonzalez Z, Zhao B, Salter E, Liu X, Ma L, Jawed MK, Hsieh CJ, Lin NYC. Supracellular measurement of spatially varying mechanical heterogeneities in live monolayers.. Biophysical journal, 2022.
  23. Choi D, Gonzalez Z, Ho SY, Bermudez A, Lin NYC. Cell-cell adhesion impacts epithelia response to substrate stiffness: Morphology and gene expression.. Biophysical journal, 2021.
  24. Imboden S, Liu X, Lee BS, Payne MC, Hsieh CJ, Lin NYC. Investigating heterogeneities of live mesenchymal stromal cells using AI-based label-free imaging.. Scientific reports, 2021.
  25. Rein JL, Heja S, Flores D, Carrisoza-Gaytán R, Lin NYC, Homan KA, Lewis JA, Satlin LM. Effect of luminal flow on doming of mpkCCD cells in a 3D perfusable kidney cortical collecting duct model.. American journal of physiology. Cell physiology, 2020.
  26. Lin NYC, Homan KA, Robinson SS, Kolesky DB, Duarte N, Moisan A, Lewis JA. Renal reabsorption in 3D vascularized proximal tubule models.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2019.
  27. Lin NYC, Bierbaum M, Cohen I. Determining Quiescent Colloidal Suspension Viscosities Using the Green-Kubo Relation and Image-Based Stress Measurements.. Physical review letters, 2017.
  28. Lin NY, Cohen I. Relating microstructure and particle-level stress in colloidal crystals under increased confinement.. Soft matter, 2016.
  29. Lin NY, Ness C, Cates ME, Sun J, Cohen I. Tunable shear thickening in suspensions.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2016.
  30. Lin NY, Bierbaum M, Schall P, Sethna JP, Cohen I. Measuring nonlinear stresses generated by defects in 3D colloidal crystals.. Nature materials, 2016.
  31. Lin NY, Guy BM, Hermes M, Ness C, Sun J, Poon WC, Cohen I. Hydrodynamic and Contact Contributions to Continuous Shear Thickening in Colloidal Suspensions.. Physical review letters, 2015.
  32. Lin NY, Cheng X, Cohen I. Biaxial shear of confined colloidal hard spheres: the structure and rheology of the vorticity-aligned string phase.. Soft matter, 2014.
  33. Lin NY, McCoy JH, Cheng X, Leahy B, Israelachvili JN, Cohen I. A multi-axis confocal rheoscope for studying shear flow of structured fluids.. The Review of scientific instruments, 2014.
  34. Lin NY, Goyal S, Cheng X, Zia RN, Escobedo FA, Cohen I. Far-from-equilibrium sheared colloidal liquids: disentangling relaxation, advection, and shear-induced diffusion.. Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics, 2013.