Alumni

Previous Research Staffs (total: 7)

  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 position: Assistant Professor, Dept. 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, Female, Assistant Research Scientist (Female, 2018-2020); Current position: Assistant Professor, Fudan University Medical School.
  6. Dr. Fenni Zhang, Female, Assistant Research Professor (Female, 2020.06 – 2021.02); Current position: Assistant Professor, Dept. 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.

Previous Postdocs (total: 17)

  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 position: Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Houston
  4. Dr. Yixian Wang (Female, 2013-2016); Current position: Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, California State University at Los Angles
  5. Dr. Wei Dong (2015-2016); Current position: Researcher, Hamamatsu, Japan
  6. Dr. Yunze Yang (2016-2019); Current position: Research Fellow, Mayo Clinic Arizona
  7. Dr. Wenwen Jing (Female, 2016.05 – 2020.06); Current position: Assistant Professor, 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 (Female, 2018.09 – 2020.05); Current position: Assistant Professor, 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 (Female, 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 Huston.
  15. Dr. Zijian Wan, PhD in electrical engineering, 2023.08 – 2023.11. Current position: senior electrical and optical engineer at Omniscient Imaging Inc, Tucson, AZ.
  16. Dr. Nanxi Yu (female), 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.

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 (Female, 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: Current position: senior electrical and optical engineer at Omniscient Imaging Inc, Tucson, AZ.
  4. Jiapei Jiang (BME), 2019.08 – 2023.12, Chair; Current position: postdoc.
  5. Nanxi Yu (Female, Chemistry) 2019.08 – 2023.12 Co-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 (Female, 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: Research Fellow, Mayo Clinic Arizona
  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 (Female, ECE, 2013.08 – 2018.07), ((Chair: Prof. NJ Tao); Current position: Assistant Professor at Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, Zhejiang University.
  7. Rafael Iriya (ECE, 2014 – 2020), Advisor Chair: Prof. NJ Tao,; Current position: principal research scientist at Fetch Rewards.
  8. Manni Mo (Female, 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 position: Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Houston

Graduated Ph.D. Students as Committee Member (total: 3)

  1. Brianne Petritis (Female, Biological design, 2009-2018), Committee member (Advisor: Prof. Joshua LaBaer); Current position: Global Marketing Coordinator, Olink Protemics.
  2. Yuan Wang (Physics, 2013-2021), Committee member (Advisor: Prof. Quan Qing)
  3. MD Ashif Ikbal (ECE, 2017-2022), Committee member (Advisor: Prof. Chao Wang)

Graduated Master Students Chaired (6)

  1. Yunlei Zhao (ECE, 2019-2021); Current position: PhD student at UIUC.
  2. Zachary Fisher (BME, 2022 Spring), MS applied project. Current position: Industry
  3. Praveena Elanghovan (BME), Class of 2023, current position: PhD student at University of Buffalo.
  4. Sai Akhila Simhadri (female, BME, 2023 Fall), MS applied project. Current position: Industry
  5. Monica Venkataramana (Female, BME), Master thesis 2023 fall – 2025 Spring
  6. Holland Gailey (BME), Applied Project, 2025 Spring 

Graduated Master Thesis Students Co-supervised (total: 4)

  1. Yen-chun Chao (Female, Chemistry, 2011-2013); Current position: Engineer at TSMC (Committee member)
  2. Ashley Hunt (Female, 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

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 (Female, 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: 30)

  1. Joseph Peterman (student worker, Biology, 2019-2020)
  2. Isabelle Hernandaz (Female, 2021.08 – 2022.05, student worker on rapid antimicrobial susceptibility test project, major in medical microbiology, school of life science
  3. Sonja Brett (Female, BME), Natalie Stevens (Female, BME), Emma Peterson (Female, 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 (Female), Alyssa LaBine (Female), 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, all female), Project title: “at-home NST machine”, Faculty Mentor
  7. Aayushi Parikh (Female, Biochemistry), undergraduate student worker, 2022.08 – 2022.12.
  8. Amanda Tsui, (Female, 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 (Female), 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 (Female, BME), Class of 2025, Summer 2024 – Spring 2025 Undergraduate Honor Thesis.

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: Law school student at University of Arizona.
  3. Jessica Zhang (2018 – 2020), Current position: Undergrade student at Stanford University.