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Previous Research Staff (total: 8)

  1. Dr. Wei Wang, Assistant Research Professor, (2013.01 – 2013.12); Current position: Professor, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University
  2. Dr. Hui Yu, Assistant Research Scientist (2012-2017); Current position: Associate Professor, School of Biomedical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
  3. Dr. Xiaonan Shan, Assistant Research Professor (2014-2016); Current affiliation: Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Houston.
  4. Dr. Yuheng Chen, Assistant Research Scientist (2016-2017); Current position: Researcher, NEC Laboratories America, Inc.
  5. Dr. Wenwen Jing, Assistant Research Scientist (2018-2020); Current affiliation: Fudan University Medical School, China.
  6. Dr. Fenni Zhang, Assistant Research Professor (2020.06 – 2021.02); Current affiliation: Department of Biomedical Engineering, Zhejiang University, China.
  7. Timothy (Haibin) Liang, research technician, (2021.07 – 2023.06); Master student of Computer Science (MCS), Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering, ASU, current position: Senior Data Analyst, ASM America.
  8. Dr. Yang Xu, Assistant Research Professor, (2022.10.01 – 2026.07) 50/50 shared with Prof. Hao Yan.

Previous Postdocs (total: 20)

  1. Dr. Wei Wang (2009.11 – 2012.12); Current position: Professor, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University, China
  2. Dr. Xianwei Liu (2012-2016); Current position: Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Science and Technology of China, China
  3. Dr. Xiaonan Shan (2011-2014); Current affiliation: Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Houston.
  4. Dr. Yixian Wang (2013-2016); Current position: Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, California State University at Los Angeles
  5. Dr. Wei Dong (2015-2016); Current position: Researcher, Hamamatsu, Japan
  6. Dr. Yunze Yang (2016-2019); Current position: Assistant Professor of Clinical, Medical Physicist, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA.
  7. Dr. Wenwen Jing (2016.05 - 2020.06); Current affiliation: Fudan University Medical School, China.
  8. Dr. Tianyu Xue (2018.10-2019.12); Current position: Professor, Department of material physics and chemistry, Yanshan University, China.
  9. Dr. Fenni Zhang (2018.09 – 2020.05); Current affiliation: Department of Biomedical Engineering, Zhejiang University, China.
  10. Dr. Rui Wang (2020. 03 – 2021.06); Current position: Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Southeast University, China
  11. Dr. Guangzhong Ma (2019.10 – 2022.08); Current position: Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Zhejiang University, China
  12. Dr. Pengfei Zhang (2018.10 – 2022.09); Current position: Faculty, Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences.
  13. Dr. Jayeeta Kolay (2021.08 – 2023.05); Current position: postdoc at NIH
  14. Dr. Xingwen Chen (2022.08 – 2023.06) co-mentored with Prof. Xiao Wang; Current position: postdoc at University of Houston.
  15. Dr. Zijian Wan, PhD in electrical engineering, 2023.08 – 2023.11. Current position: Senior Electrical Engineer at Bruker, San Jose, CA, USA.
  16. Dr. Nanxi Yu , PhD in chemistry, 2023.12 – 2024.07; Current position: Process Engineer in Applied Materials.
  17. Dr. Chao Chen, PhD in Biomedical Engineering, 2024.05 – 2024.07; Current position: Clinical research manager, Shenzhen New Industry Biomedical Engineering Co, Ltd.
  18. Dr. Xiaoyan Zhou, PhD in Electrical Engineering, 2024.08 – 2025.03, Current position: Industrial Optical Engineer.
  19. Dr. Mukesh Thapa, PhD in chemistry, 2024.11 – 2026.08; Current position: postdoc at the University of Michigan.
  20. Dr. Tony (Qiuzhe) Xie, PhD in Electrical Engineering, 2026.03 – 2026.08; Current position: industry.

Graduated Ph.D. Students Chaired and Co-chaired (total: 8)

  1. Guangzhong Ma (Chemistry, 2013-2019), Co-Chair (with Prof. NJ Tao); Current position: Assistant Professor at Dept. of Chemistry, Zhejiang University.
  2. Runli Liang (ECE, 2016-2021), Co-Chair and substitute advisor (Original Advisor: Prof. NJ Tao); Current position: Executive director, Zhongke Yitong Technology Ltd.
  3. Zijian Wan (ECE), 2018.08 – 2023.08, Chair; Current position: Senior Electrical Engineer at Bruker, San Jose, CA, USA.
  4. Jiapei Jiang (BME), 2019.08 – 2023.12, Chair; Current position: postdoc.
  5. Nanxi Yu (Chemistry) 2019.08 – 2023.12 Chair; primary advisor, Current position: Process Engineer in Applied Materials
  6. Chao Chen (BME), 2018 fall – 2024.05, Chair, Current position: Clinical research manager, Shenzhen New Industry Biomedical Engineering Co, Ltd.
  7. Xinyu Zhou (BME), 2019 fall – 2024.05, Chair, Current position: postdoc in the lab.
  8. Xiaoyan Zhou (ECE), 2021 fall – 2024.08, Chair, Current position: Industrial Optical Engineer.

Graduated Ph.D. Students Co-supervised and as Committee Member (total: 8)

  1. Christopher McGriff (ECE, 2008 - 2013), (Chair: Prof. NJ Tao); Thesis title: Small Molecule Detection by Surface Plasmon Resonance: Improvements in Sensitivity and Kinetic Measurement. Current position: Senior Director of Strategic Planning, Inflammatix Inc.
  2. Yan Guan (ECE, 2010-2015), (Chair: Prof. NJ Tao); current position: Optical Sensing Hardware Engineer at Apple, Cupertino, California
  3. Yunze Yang (ECE, 2010-2016), (Chair: Prof. NJ Tao); Current position: Assistant Professor of Clinical, Medical Physicist, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA.
  4. Karan Syal (Biological design, 2011-2017), (Chair: Prof. NJ Tao); Thesis title: Rapid antimicrobial susceptibility testing based on Bacterial motion tracking. Current position: Founder and Chief Technology Officer at cAST Technologies, San Francisco
  5. Yan Wang (ECE, 2013.08 - 2018.07); (Chair: Prof. NJ Tao); Current position: Industrial Engineer
  6. Fenni Zhang (ECE, 2013.08 – 2018.07), (Chair: Prof. NJ Tao); Current affiliation: Department of Biomedical Engineering, Zhejiang University, China.
  7. Rafael Iriya (ECE, 2014 – 2020), Advisor: Prof. NJ Tao; Current position: principal research scientist at Fetch Rewards.
  8. Manni Mo (Chemistry, 2016 - 2020), (Advisor: Prof. NJ Tao); Current position: Packaging R&D Engineer at Intel Corporation, Intel, Arizona.

Graduated Ph.D. Students Co-supervised (total: 2)

  1. Kyle Foley (ECE, 2008-2010), Chair: Prof. NJ Tao; current position: Packaging R&D Engineer at Intel Corporation, Intel, Arizona
  2. Xiaonan Shan (EE, 2008-2011), Chair: Prof. NJ Tao; Current affiliation: Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Houston.

Graduated Ph.D. Students as Committee Members (total: 9)

  1. Brianne Petritis (Biological design, 2009-2018), (Advisor: Prof. Joshua LaBaer); Current position: Global Marketing Coordinator, Olink Protemics.
  2. Yuan Wang (Physics, 2013-2021), (Advisor: Prof. Quan Qing)
  3. MD Ashif Ikbal (ECE, 2017-2022), (Advisor: Prof. Chao Wang)
  4. Sanjana Mukherjee (PHY, 2022-2024), (Advisor: Prof. Quan Qing)
  5. Sina Mirjalili (ECE, 2022-2025), Advisor: Prof. Chao Wang
  6. Joshua Eger (BME, 2019-2025), Advisor: Prof. Jennifer Blain Christen
  7. Vi Nguyen (BME, 2022 - 2025), Advisor: Prof. Jennifer Blain Christen
  8. Joshua Rousseau (BME, 2023 - 2025), Advisor: Prof. Mark Wong
  9. Tingyun (Sally) Wang (Biological design, 2024-2025), Advisor: Prof. Mark Wang

Graduated Master Students Chaired (total: 8)

  1. Yunlei Zhao (ECE, 2019-2021); Current position: PhD student at UIUC.
  2. Zachary Fisher (BME, 2022 Spring), MS applied project. Current position: Applications and Service Engineer, Vicivision America, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA.
  3. Praveena Elanghovan (BME), Class of 2023, current position: PhD student at the University of Buffalo.
  4. Sai Akhila Simhadri (BME, 2023 Fall), MS applied project. Current position: Biochemist, Eurofins PSS Insourcing Solutions, Indiana, USA.
  5. Monica Venkataramana (BME), Master’s thesis 2023 fall – 2025 Spring, Currently a PhD student.
  6. Holland Gailey (BME), Applied Project, 2025 Spring.
  7. Somdev Halder (BME) 2025 summer – 2026 Spring, Master thesis
  8. Thao Tran (BME) 2026 Spring, Master Applied Project.

Graduated Master’s Thesis Students Co-supervised (total: 5)

  1. Yen-chun Chao (Chemistry, 2011-2013); Current position: Engineer at TSMC (Committee member)
  2. Ashley Hunt (Chemistry, 2016-2018), 3 co-authored papers; Current position: Scientist at Biosensing Instrument Inc. (Tempe AZ)
  3. Landon Denham (CHE), Class of 2023. Master Thesis. Committee member. Advisor: Prof. Erica Forzani.
  4. Matthew McFadden (BME), Class of 2024. Master Thesis. Committee member. Advisor: Prof. Mark Hayes
  5. Ritvik Satyanarayanan (BME, 2024), Master’s Thesis, Committee Member, Advisor: Prof. Mehdi Nikkahah

Graduated Master Students Co-supervised (total: 8)

  1. Urmez Patel (ECE, 2009 – 2010), Current position: Graphics Hardware Engineer at Intel
  2. Feng Xiao (Chemistry, 2014-2017), Current position: Software Development Engineer at AWS
  3. Jia Zeng (Bioinformatics, 2015-2017), Current position: Senior Clinical Informatics Scientist at Caris Life Sciences
  4. Nikhilkumar Kheni (Mechanical Engineer, 2018-2019) Current position: Manufacturing Engineer at MAAX Spas Industries Corp
  5. Ahmed Al-Sultani (BME), Master Applied Project Committee Member, Graduated Dec 2022. Advisor: Prof Jennifer Blain Christen.
  6. Emanuel Salayandia (CHE), Master Applied Project Committee Member, Graduated Dec 2022. Advisor: Prof. Erica Forzani.
  7. Sanket Patel (CHE), Class of 2023. Master Applied Project. Advisor: Prof. Erica Forzani.
  8. Hemal Kiritbhai Vasoya (CHE) Class of 2023. Master Applied Project. Advisor: Prof. Erica Forzani

Graduated Undergraduate Students Supervised (total: 38)

  1. Joseph Peterman (student worker, Biology, 2019-2020)
  2. Isabelle Hernandaz (2021.08 – 2022.05, student worker on rapid antimicrobial susceptibility test project, major in medical microbiology, school of life science
  3. Sonja Brett (BME), Natalie Stevens (BME), Emma Peterson (BME), Sean Tucker (BME), and Tor Christian Tjorhom (BME), (2021.09-2022.05) BME capstone project team #23, Development of a portable microscope for point of care digital immunoassay for rapid troponin detection; Faculty Mentor
  4. Shaun Victor, Barrett Honors college major in Biomedical Engineering, 2021.09 – 2022.05, secondary advisor (primary advisor Prof. Erica Forzani).
  5. Christina Aridi , Alyssa LaBine , Aayush Shah, McKenna Strambi (Female) (2022-2023 BME Capstone team #5), Project title: “Addressing Racial Bias in Pulse Oximetry”, Faculty Mentor
  6. Mariah McNally, Tea McCormack, Jessica Camacho, Alexandra Liaos, Margie Vollkommer (2022-2023 BME Capstone team #19), Project title: “at-home NST machine”, Faculty Mentor
  7. Aayushi Parikh (Biochemistry), undergraduate student worker, 2022.08 – 2022.12.
  8. Amanda Tsui, (BME) undergraduate student researcher, 2022.11- 2023.05.
  9. Asher Hendricks (CHE), Honors thesis, 2022.09 – 2023.05, secondary advisor (primary advisor Prof. Erica Forzani).
  10. Andrew Grillo, Ashle Burns , Daniel Kasen, Nicholas Hawkinson (2023-2024 BME Capstone team #24), Project title: “Cystic Fibrosis”, Faculty Mentor
  11. Neha Shakir, Tina Ton, Anika Attaluri, Anushka Limaye, Ava Clair Lariego (all Female), (2024-2025 BME Capstone team #6), Project title: “Tele-Vision: Portable mobile device adapter for imaging anterior & posterior eye segments”, Faculty Mentor
  12. Anvitha Doddipalli (BME), Class of 2025, Summer 2024 – Spring 2025 Undergraduate Honors Thesis.
  13. Aditya Sharma (CS), 2025 summer -, 2025 SURI awardee
  14. Vivan Mall (BME), Class of 2026, Summer 2023 – Summer 2024. Undergraduate researcher.
  15. Rayan Mostofa (BME), Class of 2026, Fall 2024 – Spring 2026 Undergraduate researcher, 2025 FURI awardee.
  16. Elijah Don (BME), Class of 2026, Fall 2024 –Fall 2025 Undergraduate researcher, 2025 SURI awardee.
  17. Sydney Kwan (BME), Class of 2026, Fall 2024 – Spring 2025, Undergraduate researcher.
  18. Casey Isabelle, Sydney Kwan, Nicki Lalime, Sam Soto-Urias (all Female), (2025-2026 BME Capstone team #24), Project title: “Tele-Vision: advancing portable ophthalmic imaging technology”, Faculty Mentor

Previous Supervised High School Student Researchers (total: 3)

  1. Simon Shen (2014 - 2016), Current position: Ph.D. student at Harvard University.
  2. Peter Gao (2015), Current position: Registered Patent Attorney at Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP, Phoenix, Arizona, USA.
  3. Jessica Zhang (2018 - 2020), Current position: Technical Program Manager at Google, after graduating from Stanford University.
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