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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

  • Adan Rodriguez

  • PhD thesis: Microfluidic platforms for multiplexed functional testing of intact tumor tissues (2021)

 

  • Seoan Huh (now Seoan Liu)

  • Graduated (Ph.D.): 2014 – transferred to Nortwestern Univ. due to family reasons

  • NSF fellowship recipient, 2012

 

  • Anthony Au

  • PhD thesis: Towards Widespread Adoption of Automated Microfluidic Systems (2014)

 

  • Jonathan Cheng

  • PhD thesis: Microfluidic platforms for focal stimulation of muscle cells and large-scale studies of synaptogenesis (2014)

 

  • Tim Chang

  • PhD thesis: Towards personalized cancer therapy: microfluidic approaches for drug screening (2014)

 

  • Chris Sip

  • PhD thesis: Porous membranes for interfacing microfluidics with cell cultures (2013)

 

  • Tom Keenan

  • PhD thesis: Microfluidic methods for exposing cultured cells to defined signaling molecule gradients (2006)

  • Presently Sr. Program Manager at Amazon (previously Faculty member at Allen Brain Institute).

 

  • Chia-Hsien Hsu

  • PhD thesis: Elastomeric microfluidic devices for biological studies (2006)

  • Professor at the National Health Research Institutes (Taiwan)

 

  • Chihchen Chen

  • PhD thesis: Microfluidic elastomeric platforms for probing single cells (2006)

  • Professor at National Tsing Hua University (Taiwan)

 

  • Anna Tourovskaia

  • PhD thesis: Synaptogenesis-on-a-chip: Assembly and disassembly of the acetylcholine receptor clusters (2006)

 

  • Fettah Kosar

  • PhD thesis: Nanofluidic delivery device for probing single cells (2005)

  • Yong Tae Kim

  • 2017-2018; now professor at Korea Polytechnic Univ.

 

  • Cesar Parra

  • 2015-2016

 

  • Anthony Au

  • 2014-2015

 

  • Nirveek Bhattacharjee

  • 2008-2019

 

  • Tim Chang

  • 2014

 

  • Lisa Horowitz

  • 2010-2014

 

  • Samira Moorjani

  • 2011-2013

 

  • Adina Scott

  • 2010-2012

  • Ben Utela

  • 2009-2010

  • Bill Watt

  • 2009-2010

  • Xavier Figueroa-Masot

  • 2003-2008

  • Greg Cooksey

  • 2005-2006; now faculty at NIST

  • Ai Ebara

  • 2005-2006

  • Anna Tourovskaia

  • 2005-2007

 

  • Nianzhen Li

  • 2002-2006

  • Chris Neils

  • 2001-2003; now faculty at UW

 

  • Shelli Dennis

  • 2000

Alumni - M.S. students

Statistics: Total # of MS students supervised: 15

  • Arman Naderi

  • MS thesis: Stereolithography approaches for biomicrofluidics (2021)

 

  • Henry Wu

  • MBE program, no thesis (2019)

 

  • Xiaoyu Ye

  • MBE program, no thesis (2019)

 

  • Nesh Gandhe

  • MBE program, no thesis (2019)

 

  • Priscilla Delgado

  • MBE program, no thesis (2019)

 

  • Adan Rodriguez

  • MS thesis: Oncoslice: A Microfluidic Platform for Personalized Cancer Care and Drug Development (2018)

  • Yuan-Sheng Lee

  • MS thesis: 3D-Printed Microfluidic Control Systems (2018)

 

  • Kurt Castro

  • MS thesis: Digital Manufacturing Techniques for Microfluidic Device Fabrication (2017)

 

  • Vidhya Balaji

  • MS thesis: Manufacturing Plastic Pneumatic Logic Circuits for Integrated Microfluidic Control (2017)

  • Amit Karkamkar

  • MS thesis: Improving the Manufacturability of Active Microfluidic Devices Using Stereolithography (2016)

 

  • Umashree Nallapati

  • MS thesis: 3D Printing of Poly (Ethylenge Glycol) Diacrylate microfluidic devices (2015)

  • Aileen Wu

  • MS thesis: Examining the role of Neuregulin-1 in synaptogenesis using microfluidic tools (2009)

  • Jackie Rettig

  • MS thesis: High-throughput single-cell trapping, imaging, and analysis using PDMS microwell arrays (2005)

 

  • Nick Stucky

  • MS thesis: Micro- and nanofluidic methods for single cell immobilization and focal delivery of biological molecules (2005)

 

  • Greg Boggy

  • 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:

  • Aashik Raman

  • Richmon Lin

  • Arman Naderi

  • Max Rumaner

  • Alexandra Kuo

  • Sara Bohjanen

  • Shawn Kang

  • Wilson Huynh

  • Ross Boitano

  • Alex Rettie

  • Hoyin Lai

  • Peixian Liu

  • Eric Lam

  • David Cate

  • Philip Lindstedt

  • Boris Grin

Alumni - Visiting PhD students

  • Giulia Spennati

  • Sep 2018-Sep 2019: collaboration with Prof. Huabing Yin (Univ. of Glasgow, UK)

  • Allan Au Yeung

  • Aug 2018-Aug 2019: collaboration with Prof. Michael Yang (City University of Hong Kong)

  • Luis Rigat Brugarolas

  • Aug-Sep 2015: collaboration with Prof. Josep Samitier (IBEC, Barcelona, Spain)

  • Arturo Urrios Garcia

  • Jun-Sep 2015: collaboration with Prof. Francesc Posas (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain)

  • Alan Mauricio Gonzalez Suarez

  • Apr-Sep 2015: collaboration with Prof. Jose Luis Garcia Cordero (CINVESTAV, Monterrey, Mexico)

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