Sydney Yang joined the Knight Campus in November 2024 as a postdoctoral scholar in the Benoit Lab. Yang received her PhD in Bioengineering from the University of Maryland. Her PhD work focused on developing mucus-inspired biomaterials for drug delivery and antimicrobial applications. Prior to her doctorate, Yang received her Bachelor of Science in Bioengineering from Lehigh University. Her research interest is in tissue engineering approaches to antimicrobial therapeutics.