Alumni

Former Research Staffs

  • Dr. Wei Wang, Assistant Research Professor, (2013.01 – 2013.12), current position: Professor, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University
  • Dr. Hui Yu, Assistant Research Scientist (2012-2017), current position: Associate Professor, School of Biomedical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
  • Dr. Xiaonan Shan, Assistant Research Professor (2014-2016), current position: Assistant Professor at Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Houston
  • Dr. Yuheng Chen, Assistant Research Scientist (2016-2017), current position: Researcher in Optical Networking & Sensing at NEC Laboratories America, Inc.
  • Dr. Wenwen Jing (Female), Assistant Research Scientist (2018-2020), current position: Assistant Professor at Fudan University Medical School.
  • Dr. Fenni Zhang (Female), Assistant Research Professor (2020.06 – 2021.02), current position: Assistant Professor at Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, Zhejiang University, China.
  • Mr. Tim (Haibin) Liang, Research Technician 2021.07-2023.06), current position: Senior Data Analyst, ASM America.

Former Postdocs

  • Dr. Wei Wang (2009.11 – 2012.12), current position: Professor, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University
  • Dr. Xiaonan Shan (2011-2014), current position: Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Houston
  • Dr. Xianwei Liu (2012-2016), current position: Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Science and Technology of China
  • Dr. Yixian Wang (Female, 2013-2016), current position: Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, California State University at Los Angles
  • Dr. Wei Dong (2015-2016), current position: Researcher, Hamamatsu, Japan
  • Dr. Yunze Yang (2016-2019), current position: Research Fellow, Mayo Clinic Arizona
  • Dr. Wenwen Jing (Female 2016.05 – 2020.06), current position: Assistant Professor at Fudan University Medical School.
  • Dr. Fenni Zhang (Female, 2018.09 – 2020.05), current position: Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Zhejiang University, China.
  • Dr. Tianyu Xue (2018.10-2019.12), current position: Faculty, Department. of material physics and chemistry, Yanshan University, China.
  • Dr. Pengfei Zhang (2018.10 – 2022.09), current position: Faculty, Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences.
  • Dr. Guangzhong Ma (2019.10 – 2022.08), current position: Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Zhejiang University, China
  • Dr. Rui Wang (2020. 03 – 2021.06), current position: Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Southeast University, China
  • Dr. Jayeeta Kolay (2021.08-2023.10), current position: Postdoctoral Scholar, National Institutes of Heath, Maryland, USA
  • Dr. Xinwen Chen (2022.08-2023.06), current position: Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Houston, Texas, USA
  • Dr. Zijian Wan (2023.08-2023.10), current position: senior electrical and optical engineer, Omniscient Imaging, Tucson, Arizona, USA.

Former Ph.D. Students

  • Kyle Foley (EE, 2008-2010), current position: Packaging R&D Engineer at Intel Corporation, Intel, Arizona
  • Xiaonan Shan (EE, 2006-2011), current position: Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Houston
  • Christopher McGriff (EE, 2008.08 – 2013.10), Thesis title: Small Molecule Detection by Surface Plasmon Resonance: Improvements in Sensitivity and Kinetic Measurement. Current position: Senior Director of Strategic Planning, Inflammatix Inc.
  • Yan Guan (Female, EE, 2010-2015), current position: Optical Sensing Hardware Engineer at Apple, Cupertino, California
  • Yunze Yang (EE, 2010-2016), current position: Research Fellow, Mayo Clinic Arizona
  • Karan Syal (Biological design, 2011-2017), Thesis title: Rapid antimicrobial susceptibility testing based on Bacterial motion tracking. Current position: Founder and Chief Technology Officer at cAST Technologies, San Francisco
  • Seunghyun Lee (EE, 2015-2016)
  • Yan Wang (EE, 2013.08 – 2018.07), Current position: Industrial Engineer
  • Andrew Hoyt (EE, 2017-2018)
  • Fenni Zhang (Female, EE, 2013.08 – 2018.07), current position: Assistant Professor at Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, Zhejiang University, China.
  • Guangzhong Ma (Chemistry, 2013-2019), current position: Postdoc in Biodesign Center for Bioelectronics and Biosensors
  • Rafael Iriya (EE, 2015-2020), current position: Principal Data Scientist at Deep IQ.
  • Manni Mo (Female, Chemistry, 2016-2020), current position: Postdoc at Mayo Clinic Arizona
  • Runli Liang (Female, EE, 2016-2021), current position: an industrial startup company.
  • Zijian Wan (EE, 2018-2023), current position: senior electrical and optical engineer, Omniscient Imaging, Tucson, Arizona, USA.
  • Japei Jiang (BME, 2018-2023), current position: Postdoc in Optical Biosensing Lab).
  • Nanxi Yu (Female, Chemistry, 2019-2023), current position: Postdoc in Optical Biosensing Lab).

Former Master Students

  • Urmez Patel (EE, 2009.06 – 2010.05), current position: Graphics Hardware Engineer at Intel
  • Yen-chun Chao (Female, Chemistry, 2011-2013), current position: Engineer at TSMC
  • Feng Xiao (Chemistry, 2014-2017), current position: Software Development Engineer at AWS
  • Jia Zeng (Female, Bioinformatics, 2015-2017), Current position: Senior Clinical Informatics Scientist at Caris Life Sciences
  • Ashley Hunt (Female, Chemistry, 2016-2018), current position: Scientist at Biosensing Instrument Inc. (Tempe AZ)
  • Nikhilkumar Kheni (Mechanical Engineer, 2018-2019) Current position: Manufacturing Engineer at MAAX Spas Industries Corp
  • Yunlei Zhao (EE, 2019-2021) Current position: PhD student at UIUC.
  • Praveena Elanghovan (female, BME, 2022.08-2023.05), current position: PhD student at University of Boston
  • Nikita Srinivasan (female, BME, 2022.08-2023.01)
  • sai Akhila Simhadri (female, BME, 2023.05-2023.12)

Former Undergraduate Students

  • Joseph Peterman (student worker, Biology, 2019-2020)
  • Isabelle Hernandez (female, student worker, Microbiology 2021-2022)
  • Aayushi Parikh(female, student worker, Biochemistry 2022-2023)
  • Amanda Tsui (Female, student researcher, BME, 2022-2023)

Former High School Students

  • Simon Shen (2014 – 2016), Current position: Ph.D. student at Harvard University.
  • Peter Gao (2015), Current position: Law school student at University of Arizona.
  • Jessica Zhang (2018 – 2020), Current position: Undergrade student at Stanford University.