Post Doc and Visiting Scholar Alumni
Krishnamurthy Ravikumar
Carnegie Mellon University
Post Doctoral Fellow, Biomedical Engineering (2024)
Research Area: Thymus-on-Chip
Current Position: Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Pittsburgh
Yan Zhang
Carnegie Mellon and Penn State University
Post Doctoral Fellow, Biomedical Engineering (2022)
Research Area: Mechanical extracellular vesicle extraction, Multi-modal metal-organic framework cancer therapy
Current Position: Professor at Institute of Special Environmental Medicine, Nantong University of China
Faming Wang
Carnegie Mellon and Penn State University
Post Doctoral Fellow, Biomedical Engineering (2022)
Research Area: Mechanical extracellular vesicle extraction, Multi-modal metal-organic framework cancer therapy, Single-cell isolation and sequencing
Current Position: Professor, School of Public Health, Nantong University, China
Liu Wu
Carnegie Mellon University
Post Doctoral Fellow, Biomedical Engineering (2020)
Research Area: Extracellular vesicle analysis and early diagnosis of diseases;
Current Position: Professor, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Shandong University, China
Wan Yuan
Penn State University
Research Fellow, Biomedical Engineering (2018)
Research Area: Microfluidics, biosensors, nanomaterials
Current Position: Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Binghamton University, State University of New York
Gong Chen
Penn State University
Post Doctoral Scholar, Biomedical Engineering (2017)
Research Area: Design and synthesis of multinational nano-structures and devices for bio-molecules separation and delivery
Current Position: Head of Analytical Sciences at Asimov
Zhigang Wang
Penn State University
Post Doctoral Scholar, Biomedical Engineering (2017)
Research Area: Multifunctional nano-structures, Microfluidics devices, Biological applications
Current Position: Professor, Wenzhou Institute, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
Wenqing Li
Penn State University
Post Doctoral Scholar, Biomedical Engineering (2017)
Research Area: Nanomaterials drug delivery, mitochondrial function on nanoparticles
Current Position: Professor, College of Medicine, Nantong University, China
Muhammad Akbar
Penn State University
Post Doctoral Scholar, Electrical Engineering (2017)
Research Area: MEMS, Micro gas chromatography, Microfluidics, Microvalves, Micro molding biodegradable polymers
Current Position: Integration Engineer at Intel Corporation
Xu Yu
Penn State University
Post Doctoral Scholar, Biomedical Engineering (2015)
Research Area: Microfluidics, biosensors, nanomaterials synthesis and application
Current Position: Professor, Tongji School of Pharmacy, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, China
Xueni Zhao
Penn State University
Visiting Scholar, Electrical Engineering (2014)
Current Position: Professor, College of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Shaanxi University of Science and Technology, China
Andy Myrick
Penn State University
Post Doctoral Scholar, Biomedical Engineering Instructor (2013)
Current Position: Staff Scientist, Applied Research Lab (ARL), The Pennsylvania State University
Ph.D. Student Alumni
Harrison Lawson
Carnegie Mellon University
Ph.D. of Chemical Engineering (2024)
Research Area: Metal-organic framework delivery of mRNA for gene therapy
Current Position: Visiting Scholar in BME at Carnegie Mellon
Mengrou (Lucia) Lu
Carnegie Mellon University
Ph.D. of Biomedical Engineering (2024)
Research Area: Split-enzyme cancer therapeutic, extracellular vesicle protein delivery, PCR-on-chip diagnostic
Current Position: Visiting Scholar in BME at Carnegie Mellon
Mackenzie (Maurer) Ditty
Penn State University
Ph.D. of Biomedical Engineering (2021)
Research Area: Nanomaterial-integrated microdevices for the enrichment and detection of liquid biopsy biomarkers
Current Position:Bayer Staff Scientist
Wenlong Zhang
Penn State University
Ph.D. of Biomedical Engineering (2019)
Research Area: Nanomaterial Integrated Devices for Diagnosis of Infectious Diseases
Current Position: Manager, System Engineering, Twist Bioscience
Yiqiu Xia
Penn State University
Ph.D. of Biomedical Engineering (2019)
Research Area: Optical imaging, microfluidic virus diagnostic, chemical sensors, CTC filtration
Current Position: PreciGenome R&D Manager
Yizhu Chen
Penn State University
Ph.D. of Electrical Engineering (2019)
Research Area: Optical imaging
Current Position: ASML Senior Engineer
Sijie Hao
Penn State University
Ph.D. of Biomedical Engineering (2017)
Research Area: Tissue Engineering, Microfabrication, Biology of circulating tumor cells, CTC, mechanism of cancer metastasis, microfluidics, bone physiology
Current Position: Director of Advanced Microscope Facility at the University of Virginia
Laura Ha
Penn State University
Ph.D. of Biomedical Engineering (2017)
Research Area: Microfluidics, BioMEMS, Circulating Tumour Cells (CTCs)
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Engineering and Biotechnology, Sunmoon University, South Korea
Merisa Nisic
Penn State University
Ph.D. of Molecular Cellular and Integrative Biosciences (2017)
Research Area: Genetic characterization of circulating tumor cells (CTCs)
Current Position: VP, Medical Strategy Lead at Propel Health Communications
Mingda Zhou
Penn State University
Ph.D. of Biomedical Engineering (2015)
Research Area: Integrated implantable microdevice for pressure sensing, gene transfer, electrophysiological sensing and drug delivery, microGC
Current Position: Associate Professor, School of Precision Instrument and Opto-Electronics Engineering, Tianjin University, China
Yin-Ting Yeh
Penn State University
Ph.D. of Biomedical Engineering (2015)
Research Area: Nanomaterial integrated platform for blood analysis
Current Position: Research Assistant Professor at Penn State University, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Visiting Research Scientist at National Institute of Health (NIH), and Cheif Technology Officer at ViroLock LLC
Ramdane Harouaka
Penn State University
Ph.D. of Biomedical Engineering (2014)
Research Area: flexible microspring array for viable enrichment of circulating tumor cells
Current Position: Principal Engineer - Nanopore Sequencing Roche
Master Student Alumni
Vaishnavi Umalkar
Carnegie Mellon University
M.S. of Biomedical Engineering (2024)
Research Area: Medical devices, microfluidics for Organ-on-chip
Current Position: Clinical Coordinator at Palarum, LLC
Marshall Chen
Carnegie Mellon University
M.S. of Biomedical Engineering (2023)
Research Area: Urine extracellular vesicle isolation and diagnosis
Current Position:
Marie Kim
Carnegie Mellon University
M.S. of Biomedical Engineering (2022)
Research Area: Extracellular vesicle diagnostics
Current Position: Ph.D. Candidate at John Hopkins University
Xin (Zoe) Zou
Penn State University
M.S. of Biomedical Engineering (2017)
Research Area: Biomedical devices
Current Position: Scientific Illustrator at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Jiaqi Wang
Penn State University
M.S. of Biomedical Engineering (2014)
Research Area: Statistical analysis of circulating tumor cells in a clinical non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) study
Current Position: Industry
Ashu Poudyal
Penn State University
M.S. of Biomedical Engineering (2014)
Research Area: effect of media volume manipulations on global huvec colony proliferation within a microfluidic channel study
Current Position: Specialist, Supplier Quality Engineer at L3Harris Technologies
Undergraduate Alumni
Benedict Song
Carnegie Mellon University
B.S. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Area: Micro device fabrication
Current Position: Carnegie Mellon University Teaching Assistant
Sarah Scoles
Carnegie Mellon University
B.S. of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering (2024)
Research Area: Extracellular vesicle diagnostics
Current Position: Research Specialist at the University of Illinois College of Medicine
Claire Su
Carnegie Mellon University
B.S. of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering (2024)
Research Area: Extracellular vesicle diagnostics
Current Position: PhD candidate, Georgia Institute of Technology
Ayesha Tupe
Carnegie Mellon University
B.S. of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering (2024)
Research Area: Nanomaterials for gene delivery
Current Position: Graduate School
Sachira Denagamage
Penn State University
B.S. of Biology (2017)
Penn State Millennium Scholar
Research Area: Nanomaterials for proteomics and gene/drug delivery
Current Position: Post-Doctoral Scientist at Columbia University's Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain and Behavior Institute
Khalil Ramadi
Penn State University
B.S. of Biomedical and Mechanical Engineering (2014)
Research Area: Investigating the mechanics of cancer cell membranes using microfluidics
Current Position: Assistant Professor of Bioengineering and Radiology at New York University (NYU)
Waleed Khan
The Pennsylvania State University, (2014)
Members Prior to 2013
Ravi Shah (B.S.) - 2012
Colin Burns-Heffner (SURF) - 2012
Kelly Chen (B.S.) - 2012
Chloe Nagel (B.S.) - 2012
Gretchen Stockhausen (B.S.) - 2012
Bharath Ramaswamy (M.S.) - 2011
Ragaram Narayanan (M.S.) - 2011
Julie Chang (SURF) - 2011
James Si-Cong Wang (B.S.) - 2010
Sunny Kaneria (B.S.) - 2010
Anthony (Tony) O'Donnell (B.S.) - 2010
Vy Nguyen (B.S.) - 2009
Sourav Kole (B.S.) - 2009