Principle Investigator


Dr. Shaochen Chen

Principal Investigator
Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, UC Berkeley
Email: shc064@ucsd.edu

Postdoc Fellows


Jacob

Dr. Jacob Schimelman

Postdoc Fellow, Ph.D. in NanoEngineering, 2023

Jiaao

Dr. Jiaao Guan

Postdoc Fellow, Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering

Cheng

Dr. Cheng Lyu

Postdoc Fellow, Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering

Graduate Students


Huang

Betty Huang

Ph.D. Student in NanoEngineering

Xiang

Yi Xiang

Ph.D. Student in NanoEngineering

Alis

Alis Balayan

M.D./Ph.D. Student in Medicine

Sun

Yazhi Sun

Ph.D. Student in NanoEngineering

Lu

Ting-yu Lu

Ph.D. Student in Materials Sciences and Engineering

Emmie

Emmie Yao

Ph.D. Student in NanoEngineering

Toby Meng-Saccoccio

Ph.D. Student in NanoEngineering

Ashley

Ashley Altera

M.S. Student in Nanoengineering

Undergraduate Students


Jasmine

Jasmine Le

B.S NanoEngineering, Class of 2025

Rachel

Rachel Chickini

B.S Chemical Engineering, Class of 2025

Riley

Riley Liu

B.S Human Biology, Class of 2025

Grace

Grace Lu

B.S. Global Health, Class of 2026

Sophie

Sophie Brown

B.S. General Biology, Class of 2026

Malleeka

Malleeka Suy

B.S. Human Biology, Class of 2025

Krish

Krish Narotam

B.S. Bioengineering, Class of 2026

Michael

Michael Julian

B.S. Microbiology, Class of 2026

Emma

Emma Berman

B.S. Bioengineering, UC Berkeley, Class of 2026

Former Post-Docs

  • David Berry, Assistant Professor, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, School of Medicine, UC San Diego
  • Daniel Wangpraseurt, Associate Research Scientist, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, UC San Diego
  • Min Tang (2022-2023), Associate Professor, Shanghai University of Chinese Medicine
  • Xiaocheng Wang (2022-2023), Associate Professor, Anhui Medical University
  • Shangting You (2020-2022), Assistant Professor, Zhejiang University
  • Michelle Ma (2018-2019), Scientist at Illumina
  • Claire Yu (2016-2020), Scientist at Vertex Pharmaceuticals
  • Wei Zhu (2016-2017), CEO of Allegro 3D, a BICO company
  • Xin (Paul) Qu (2011-2014), Investigator at Novartis Institute for BioMedical Research
  • Pranav Soman (2009-2013), Associate Professor at Syracuse University
  • Jin Woo Lee (2009-2012), Associate Professor at Gachon University (South Korea)

Former Ph.D. Graduates

  • Wisarut (Ben) Kiratitanaporn (PhD, 2023), Research Engineer, Cincinnati Children's Hospital
  • Jiaao Guan (PhD, 2023), Senior Engineer, Cellink
  • Min Tang (Ph.D. 2022), Associate Professor, Shanghai University of Chinese Medicine
  • Henry Hwang (Ph.D. 2022), Scientist, Vizgen
  • Kathleen Miller (Ph.D. 2021), Product Development Scientist, Vizgen
  • Zheng Zhong (Ph.D. 2021), Scientist at ArsenalBio
  • Shangting You (Ph.D. 2019), Assistant Professor, Zhejiang University
  • Pengrui Wang (Ph.D. 2019), Scientist at Beyond Meat
  • Michelle Ma (Ph.D. 2018), Scientist at Illumina
  • Justin Liu (Ph.D. 2017), Senior engineer at Intel
  • John Warner (Ph.D. 2016), Product Development Scientist, BlueNalu, Inc.
  • Wei Zhu (Ph.D. 2016), CEO of Allegro 3D, a BICO company
  • Kolin Hribar (Ph.D 2015), a CEO of a startup company
  • Wande Zhang (Ph.D. 2012), Vice President, Bank of America Merrill Lynch
  • Jamil Wakil (Ph.D. 2010), Research Engineer at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
  • Wei Wang (Ph.D. 2010; MS 2008), Manager at China Power Investment Corporation (Beijing)
  • Shaomin Wu (Ph.D. 2010), Research Engineer at Microsoft, Inc
  • Li-Hsin Han (Ph.D. 2009), Associate Professor at Drexel University
  • David Fozdar (Phd. 2009, MS 2005), Engineer at SandRidge Energy
  • Carlos Aguilar (Ph.D. 2008, MS 2005), Associate Professor at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  • Arvind Battula (Ph.D. 2007), Senior Scientist, Schlumberger
  • Yi Lu (Ph.D. 2006; MS 2003), Senior Manager, Facebook
  • Dongbing Shao (Ph. D. 2006), Senior Researcher, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
  • Senthil Theppakuttai (Ph.D. 2006; MS 2001), R & D Manager at SV Probe, Inc.
  • Shifeng Li (Ph.D. 2004; MS 2001), Senior Manager, Complete Genomics

Former MS Graduates

  • Leilani Kwe (MS 2021), Equipment Development Engineer, Intel
  • Michelle Bautista Layton (MS 2020)
  • Yew (John) Leong (MS2016), Software Engineer at BIOVIA
  • Kyle Meggs (MS 2015), Senior Product Manager at Google
  • Peter Chung (MS 2014), Senior Engineer, NuVasive Surgical Intelligence
  • August Pereira (MS 2014)
  • Matthew Hense (MS 2006), Engineer at Technip
  • Hongdae Moon (MS 2006)
  • Hyun-wook Kang (MS 2004), Professor, Pukyong National University (Korea)
  • Wei Zheng (MS 2001), Sr. Electrical Engineer at Boston Scientific
  • Vijay Kancharla (MS 2001), Engineer at IPG Photonics, Inc.

Former BS Graduates

  • Mary Melarkey (BS 2024)
  • Erin Shen (BS 2024)
  • Nancy Zhang (BS 2024)
  • Celine Tung (BS 2024)
  • Allison Lao (BS 2023)
  • Jerry Wu (BS 2023)
  • Emmie Yao (BS 2023)
  • Sophie Pearson (BS 2023)
  • Neel Dhar (BS 2023)
  • Di (Horace) Yu (BS 2023)
  • Jacob Pustelnik (BS 2022)
  • Kyle Mumm (BS 2022)
  • Zhitian (Ruskin) Shi (BS 2022)
  • Yizhi Yuan (BS 2022)
  • Trevor Tam (BS 2021)
  • Jing Tian (BS 2021)
  • Brian Xi (BS 2021)
  • Luwen Chen (BS 2021)
  • Xiaoao “Aaron” Shi (BS 2021)
  • Trevor Fried (BS 2021), Product Integration Engineer, HP
  • Qinghui (Luna) Xia (BS 2021)
  • Leilani Kwe (BS 2020), Equipment Development Engineer, Intel
  • Xinyue Ma (BS 2020)
  • Frank He (BS 2020)
  • Jeffrey Alido (BS 2020), PhD student at Boston University
  • Xueyi Wan (BS 2020)
  • Alexandria Hairabedian (BS 2019)
  • Amy Moran (BS 2019)
  • Andrew T. Li (BS 2019)
  • Deepak Lakshmipathy (BS 2019)
  • Anna Koroleva-Maharajh (BS 2018)
  • Justin Stupin (BS 2018)
  • Weizhe Xu (BS 2018)
  • Haixu (BS 2018)
  • Natalie Lawrence (BS 2018)
  • Cheuk Lai (BS 2017), graduate student at Rice Univeristy
  • Grace Victorine (BS 2017)
  • Grace Whang (BS 2017), graduate student at UCLA
  • Lauren Lopez (BS 2017)
  • Kate Newcomer (BS 2017), illumina, Inc
  • Eward Huang (BS 2016)
  • Takeyah Campbell (Summer 2015, from Howard University)
  • Hong Zhang (BS 2015)
  • Jana Zaidan (BS 2015)
  • Padraig Buckley (BS 2015)
  • Keith Yu (BS 2014)
  • Sam Huang (BS 2013)
  • August Pereira (BS 2013): Graduate student at UC San Diego
  • Matthew Tom (BS 2013): Graduate student at UC San Diego
  • Nicole Lim (BS 2013): Graduate student at Northwestern Univeristy
  • Helen Bae (Summer 2013, from Harvard University)
  • Max Danell (BS 2010), graduate student at Harvard University
  • Lucy Lu (BS 2011)
  • Marc Gonzalez (BS 2010)
  • Brandon Beberwyck (BS 2009), graduate student at UC Berkeley
  • Hai Nguyen (BS 2009)
  • Antonio Osorio (BS 2009), graduate student at University of Michigan
  • Nicholas Mitchell (BS 2008)
  • Jennifer Tobias (BS 2007)
  • Chris Javadi (BS 2007)
  • Darren Cooper (BS 2007)
  • Chris Kuryak (BS 2006), graduate student at MIT
  • Gerry Suhali (BS 2006), Engineer at Exxon Mobil
  • Priyanshu Gupta (BS 2005), graduate student at Stanford University
  • Aaron Hulse (BS 2004), graduate student at UT-Austin
  • Clarissa Lui (BS 2003), graduate student at Connell University
  • Shaz Viljee (BS 2003), graduate student at UT-Austin
  • Eddie Degracia (BS 2003)

Visiting Scholars

  • Alex Haid (2019), Engineer at General Atomics; B.S Nanoengineering, UCSD
  • Dai Xue (2018), Ph.D. Student in Mechanical Engineering, Zhejiang University,
  • Jiawen Li (2016), Associate Professor, Univ of Science and Technology of China
  • Sang-Hyun Pyo (2015), Associate Professor, Lund University (Sweden)
  • Aping Zhang (2011), Associate Professor, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
  • Gang Yu (2007), Professor at the Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Science (China)
  • Hyuk-Hong Kwon (2006-2008), Professor at Daejin University (South Korea)