Liang Chen obtained his BS in chemical engineering and technology at China university of petroleum, MS in chemical engineering at New Jersey Institute of Technology. He received his Ph.D (June/19 2019) in Chemical Engineering at New Jersey Institute of Technology and he is currently working as a research assistant in New Jersey Center for Engineered Particulates. His research focused on particle engineering for improving the critical material attributes (CMAs) of both excipients and active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) powders as well as developing mathematical models to predict the CMAs. He has filed one patent application and published seven peer reviewed journal papers. He is a member of American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists and American Institute of Chemical Engineers. He also severed as reviewer for peer reviewed journals such as Chemical Engineering Journal, International Journal of Pharmaceutics, and Advanced Powder Technology.