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