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Alumni - PhD students
Statistics: 11 PhD students; 3 (27%) have reached faculty rank
Alumni - Postdocs
Statistics: 17 postdocs; 3 (18%) have reached faculty rank
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Adan Rodriguez
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PhD thesis: Microfluidic platforms for multiplexed functional testing of intact tumor tissues (2021)
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Seoan Huh (now Seoan Liu)
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Graduated (Ph.D.): 2014 – transferred to Nortwestern Univ. due to family reasons
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NSF fellowship recipient, 2012
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Anthony Au
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PhD thesis: Towards Widespread Adoption of Automated Microfluidic Systems (2014)
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Jonathan Cheng
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PhD thesis: Microfluidic platforms for focal stimulation of muscle cells and large-scale studies of synaptogenesis (2014)
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Tim Chang
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PhD thesis: Towards personalized cancer therapy: microfluidic approaches for drug screening (2014)
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Chris Sip
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PhD thesis: Porous membranes for interfacing microfluidics with cell cultures (2013)
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Tom Keenan
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PhD thesis: Microfluidic methods for exposing cultured cells to defined signaling molecule gradients (2006)
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Presently Sr. Program Manager at Amazon (previously Faculty member at Allen Brain Institute).
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Chia-Hsien Hsu
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PhD thesis: Elastomeric microfluidic devices for biological studies (2006)
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Professor at the National Health Research Institutes (Taiwan)
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Chihchen Chen
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PhD thesis: Microfluidic elastomeric platforms for probing single cells (2006)
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Professor at National Tsing Hua University (Taiwan)
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Anna Tourovskaia
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PhD thesis: Synaptogenesis-on-a-chip: Assembly and disassembly of the acetylcholine receptor clusters (2006)
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Fettah Kosar
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PhD thesis: Nanofluidic delivery device for probing single cells (2005)
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Yong Tae Kim
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2017-2018; now professor at Korea Polytechnic Univ.
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Cesar Parra
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2015-2016
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Anthony Au
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2014-2015
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Nirveek Bhattacharjee
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2008-2019
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Tim Chang
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2014
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Lisa Horowitz
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2010-2014
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Samira Moorjani
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2011-2013
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Adina Scott
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2010-2012
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Ben Utela
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2009-2010
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Bill Watt
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2009-2010
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Xavier Figueroa-Masot
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2003-2008
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Greg Cooksey
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2005-2006; now faculty at NIST
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Ai Ebara
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2005-2006
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Anna Tourovskaia
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2005-2007
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Nianzhen Li
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2002-2006
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Chris Neils
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2001-2003; now faculty at UW
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Shelli Dennis
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2000
Alumni - M.S. students
Statistics: Total # of MS students supervised: 15
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Arman Naderi
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MS thesis: Stereolithography approaches for biomicrofluidics (2021)
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Henry Wu
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MBE program, no thesis (2019)
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Xiaoyu Ye
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MBE program, no thesis (2019)
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Nesh Gandhe
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MBE program, no thesis (2019)
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Priscilla Delgado
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MBE program, no thesis (2019)
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Adan Rodriguez
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MS thesis: Oncoslice: A Microfluidic Platform for Personalized Cancer Care and Drug Development (2018)
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Yuan-Sheng Lee
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MS thesis: 3D-Printed Microfluidic Control Systems (2018)
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Kurt Castro
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MS thesis: Digital Manufacturing Techniques for Microfluidic Device Fabrication (2017)
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Vidhya Balaji
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MS thesis: Manufacturing Plastic Pneumatic Logic Circuits for Integrated Microfluidic Control (2017)
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Amit Karkamkar
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MS thesis: Improving the Manufacturability of Active Microfluidic Devices Using Stereolithography (2016)
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Umashree Nallapati
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MS thesis: 3D Printing of Poly (Ethylenge Glycol) Diacrylate microfluidic devices (2015)
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Aileen Wu
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MS thesis: Examining the role of Neuregulin-1 in synaptogenesis using microfluidic tools (2009)
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Jackie Rettig
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MS thesis: High-throughput single-cell trapping, imaging, and analysis using PDMS microwell arrays (2005)
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Nick Stucky
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MS thesis: Micro- and nanofluidic methods for single cell immobilization and focal delivery of biological molecules (2005)
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Greg Boggy
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MS thesis: Chemotaxis on a chip: Microvalve control over diffusive gradient formation for studies of neutrophil chemotaxis (2004)
Alumni - Undergraduates
Statistics: 42 undergrads supervised with projects; 15 (36%) have authored one or more papers and 6 (14%) have become first authors. Listed below are students who contributed to papers; underlined are the first authors:
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Aashik Raman
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Richmon Lin
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Arman Naderi
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Max Rumaner
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Alexandra Kuo
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Sara Bohjanen
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Shawn Kang
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Wilson Huynh
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Ross Boitano
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Alex Rettie
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Hoyin Lai
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Peixian Liu
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Eric Lam
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David Cate
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Philip Lindstedt
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Boris Grin
Alumni - Visiting PhD students
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Giulia Spennati
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Sep 2018-Sep 2019: collaboration with Prof. Huabing Yin (Univ. of Glasgow, UK)
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Allan Au Yeung
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Aug 2018-Aug 2019: collaboration with Prof. Michael Yang (City University of Hong Kong)
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Luis Rigat Brugarolas
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Aug-Sep 2015: collaboration with Prof. Josep Samitier (IBEC, Barcelona, Spain)
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Arturo Urrios Garcia
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Jun-Sep 2015: collaboration with Prof. Francesc Posas (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain)
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Alan Mauricio Gonzalez Suarez
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Apr-Sep 2015: collaboration with Prof. Jose Luis Garcia Cordero (CINVESTAV, Monterrey, Mexico)