alumni
past members of the lab
Postdoctoral Scholars
| Name | Period | Additional Information |
|---|---|---|
| Dr. Zhikun Zhang | Jan 2023 - Mar 2024 | Next: Associate Professor at Hebei University of Science and Technology |
| Dr. Xiaodong He | Feb 2019 – Jul 2020 | Next: Assistant Professor at Lanzhou University |
| Dr. Xiaonan Yang | Feb 2016 – Jan 2017 | Next: Associate Professor at Zhengzhou University |
Ph.D. Students
| Name | Graduated | Additional Information |
|---|---|---|
| Aneesh Kshirsagar | Oct 2025 | Dissertation: Intelligent Point-Of-Need Genomic Systems For Real-Time Pathogen Surveillance. Next: Postdoc, Indiana University Bloomington |
| Anthony Politza | May 2025 | Dissertation: Addressing Challenges in Sample Preparation and Nucleic Acid Testing for Personalized HIV Diagnostics. Next: Airbus US Space & Defense, Inc. |
| Ming Dong | Dec 2024 | Dissertation: Addressing Reliability Challenges in Solid-State Nanopore Sensors for Robust Point-Of-Care Diagnostics. Next: Huawei Technologies |
| Tianyi_Liu | Oct 2024 | Dissertation: Advancing Integrated Nucleic Acid Testing for HIV Self-Testing and Personalized Viral Load Monitoring. Next: Postdoc, Johns Hopkins |
| Reza Nouri | Aug 2022 | Dissertation: Solid-state nanopore CRISPR-assisted diagnostic systems toward digital nucleic acid testing. Next: Nationwide Children’s Hospital |
| Zifan Tang | May 2022 | Dissertation: Digital solid-state nanopore fabrication and sensing towards integrated nucleic acid testing. Next: Illumina Inc |
| Gihoon Choi | May 2020 | Dissertation: Microfluidic molecular and cellular detection of malaria towards elimination. Next: Sandia National Laboratories |
Master Students
| Name | Period | Additional Information |
|---|---|---|
| Yilin Zhang | Aug 2023 – Aug 2024 | |
| Fanming Liu | Aug 2022 – Mar 2023 | Next: PhD, PSU |
| Wenxin Cao | Aug 2020 – May 2021 | |
| Tianyi Liu | Aug 2019 – May 2020 | Next: PhD, PSU |
| Kamyar Roshan | Aug 2017 – May 2019 | Next: PhD, PSU |
| Nicholas Budzinski | Aug 2017 – May 2018 | |
| Qi Yan | Aug 2016 – Dec 2017 |
Undergraduate Students
| Name | Period | Additional Information |
|---|---|---|
| Hueyue Pan | Aug 2022 – Mar 2023 | |
| Naqiyah Peatiwala | Jan 2022 – May 2022 | |
| Jiarui (Jerry) Cui | Aug 2020 – May 2022 | |
| Dean DeRosa | Jan 2021 – May 2022 | Schreyer Scholar Thesis: Design and Validation of a Low-Cost 8-Channel qRT-LAMP Test with Real-Time Result Readout |
| Xiayu Wang | Oct 2019 – Mar 2020 | |
| Erica Murphy | Aug 2018 – May 2019 | Schreyer Scholar Thesis: Microfluidic Time-Division Multiple Access Resistive Pulse Sensor For Particle Analysis |
| Tianyi Liu | Jan 2018 – May 2019 | CoE REU Program |
| Swasti Mehra | Aug 2018 – Dec 2018 | CoE REU Program |
| Fuchang Jiang | Jan 2018 – May 2018 | |
| Minkyu Lee | Aug 2017 – May 2018 | |
| Rui Xia | Aug 2017 – Dec 2017 | |
| Shiming Fan | Aug 2017 – Dec 2017 | |
| Tong Hu | Aug 2017 – Dec 2017 | |
| Theodore Prince | Feb 2016 – Dec 2017 | CoE REU Program |
| Daniel Song | Feb 2016 – May 2017 | |
| Jeffery Miller | Aug 2015 – Dec 2015 | |
| John DiDonato | Aug 2015 – Dec 2015 | |
| Kristina Ly | Jan 2015 – Dec 2015 | CoE REU Program |
| Parker Reusch | Jan 2015 – May 2015 |