Ashok Mulchandani's
Bionanotechnology and Biosensors Group

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RESEARCH GROUP

CURRENT

GRADUATE STUDENTS

1. Ms. Claudia Chaves Villareal, Ph.D. MSE

2. Ms. Xuejun Yu, Ph.D. Bioengineering

3. Mr. Thien-Toan Tran, Ph.D. Bioengineering

4. Mr. Tung Pham, Ph.D. CEE

5. Ms. Yu Shen, Ph.D. CEE

6. Mr. Mohammed Abu El-Hassan, Ph.D. MSE

POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW

VISITING RESEARCHERS

1. Mr. Guo Zhao, China Agriculture University

2. Ms. Mika Hatada, Tokyo University of Agriculture & Technology

UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCHERS

1. Linh Nguyen, Chemical & Environmental Engineering

2. Jhoann Lopez, Chemical & Environmental Engineering

3. David Rangel, Chemical & Environmental Engineering

4. Ms. Duyen Pham, Biochemistry

ALUMNI (CURRENT AFFILIATION)

GRADUATE STUDENTS

1. Aijun A. Wang, Ph. D. Environmental Toxicology (CAL EPA)

2. Mark Shimazu, Ph. D. Environmental Toxicology (Kosan Scientific, USA)

3. Ms. Catherine M. Cho, Ph. D. Environmental Toxicology (Codexis, USA)

4. Yu Lei, Ph. D. Chemical and Environmental Engineering (Assoc. Prof., Univ. of Connecticut)

5. Jae-Young Kim, Ph. D. Environmental Toxicology (Samsung, Korea)

6. Khaled El-Galil, Ph. D. Microbiology, Mansoura University, Egypt (Beirut Arab University, Lebanon)

7. Kanchan A. Joshi, Ph. D. Chemical and Environmental Engineering (SenDex, USA)

8. Ms. Cindy Wu, Ph. D. Environmental Toxicology (Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory)

9. Ms. U. Loi Lao, Ph. D. Chemical and Environmental Engineering (Codexis, USA)

10. Mangesh A. Bangar, Ph. D. Chemical and Environmental Engineering (Advanced Materials)

11. Ms. Seung Hyun Kang, Ph. D. Chemical and Environmental Engineering

12. Maxwell Kum, Ph.D. Chemical and Environmental Engineering (ACON Laboratories, USA)

13. Ms. Joun Lee, Ph.D. Chemical and Environmental Engineering (Postdoc, UC Santa Barbara)

14. Pablo Sanchez, Ph. D. Microbiology (Agricultural Attaché, Embassy of Mexico, Canada)

15. Ms. Miso Park, Ph.D. Chemical and Environmental Engineering (Transferred to U. Delaware)

16. Ms. Hsiao-yun Yeh, Ph.D. Chemical and Environmental Engineering

17. Ms. Sandra Hernandez, Ph.D. Chemical and Environmental Engineering (Naval Research Lab)

18. Ms. Lakshmi Cella, Ph.D. Cell Development and Molecular Biology (Merck and Company)

19. Ms. Sushmee Badhulika, Ph.D. Electrical Engineering (Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad, India)

20. Sira Srinives, Ph.D. Chemical and Environmental Engineering (Asst. Prof., Mahidol Univ., Thailand)

21. Tapan Sarkar, Ph.D. Chemical and Environmental Engineering (Asst. Prof. Delhi Univ., India)

22. Mr. Rajat K. Paul, Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering (Intel, Inc., USA)

23. Ms. Nuvia M. Saucedo, Ph.D. Chemistry (Southern Adventist University)

24. Ms. Trupti Terse, Ph.D. Bioengineering (Tufts University)

25. Mr. Pankaj Ramnani, Ph.D. CEE (Lam Research)

26. Ms. Lisa Barrows, M. S. Biochemistry

27. Ms. Giselle Martinez, M. S. Microbiology

28. Michael Arzdorf, Diplome, Bioengineering Aachen University, Germany

29. Giridhar Prabhukumar, M.S. Chemical and Environmental Engineering (British Petroleum)

30. Rohini Produtur, M. S. Chemical and Environmental Engineering

31. Jainzhong Wu, M. S. Chemical and Environmental Engineering

32. Ms. Nicole McBean, M. S. Chemical and Environmental Engineering

33. James Kakoulis, M.S. Chemistry

34. Rajat Kanti Paul, M.S. Electrical Engineering

35. Mr. Raul Hernandez, M.S. Chemical and Environmental Engineering

PostdoctorAL FELLOWS

1. Dr. Nicholas Almeida (Merck and Company)

2. Dr. Chia (Steven) Wang (ACON, USA)

3. Dr. Amarjeet A. Bassi (Prof., Univ. Western Ontario, CANADA)

4. Dr. Richard Richins

5. Dr. Irena Kaneva

6. Dr. Shengtian Pan

7. Dr. Sagun Tandel

8. Dr. Natalie Fortin

9. Dr. Priti Mulchandani (Adjunct Faculty, Chaffey College)

10. Dr. Weon Bae

11. Dr. Jan Kostal

12. Dr. Zarook Shareefdeen

13. Dr. Jean-Yves Le Brazedic

14. Dr. Sohail Sheikh

15. Dr. Zhaohui (Julie) Xu (Assoc. Prof., Bowling Green Univ.)

16. Dr. Michal Stibor

17. Dr. Hanka Stiborova

18. Dr. Sergi Morais (Asst. Prof., Polytechnic Univ. of Valencia, Spain)

19. Dr. Marek Prouza

20. Dr. Jun Kim

21. Dr. Kumaran Ramanathan (Perkin-Elmer, USA)

22. Dr. Di Gao (Assoc. Prof., Univ. of Pittsburgh)

23. Dr. Zihui Meng (Assoc. Prof., Beijing Institute of Technology)

24. Dr. Adam Wanekaya (Assoc. Prof., Missouri State Univ.)

25. Dr. Gabina Jenikova

26. Dr. Lianbin Xu (Assoc. Prof., Beijing Univ. of Chem. Technol.)

27. Dr. Aijun A. Wang (CAL EPA)

28. Dr. C. L. Aravinda

29. Dr. Debanshu Chaudhuri (Assoc. Prof., Indian Institute of Science Education & Research, Kolkata, India)

30. Dr. Zdenek Chodoraz

31. Dr. B. Y. Yoo (Assoc. Prof., Hanyang Univ.)

32. Dr. Min Lai (Assoc. Prof., China)

33. Dr. Jae-Hong Lim (Asst. Prof., Korea Inst. Of Material Science)

34. Dr. D. J. Shirale (Asst. Prof., North Maharashtra Univ., India)

35. Dr. Chaker Tlili (CNRS, Quebec, Canada)

36. Dr. Cristina Garcia (Asst. Prof., Univ. of Barcelona)

37. Dr. Chaokun Li (Chief of Physiology & Neurobiology, Xinxiang Medical University, China)

38. Dr. Mahendra Shirsat (Prof., Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marthwada Univ., India)

39. Dr. Yingning Gao (Nanomedical Diagnostics, Inc.)

40. Dr. Jia-wei Tay (Postdoc, Entomology Dept. UCR)

Visiting ResearcherS

3. Prof. Shin-ichiro Suye, Fukui University, Japan

4. Prof. Katsumi Takayama, Fukui National College, Japan

5. Prof. Pyong Shin, KIAST, Korea

6. Prof. Ayman Mansee, Alexandria University, Egypt (Fulbright Scholar)

7. Prof. Prem C. Pandey, Banaras Hindu University, India

8. Prof. Marek Trojanowicz, Warsaw University, Poland (Fulbright Scholar)

9. Prof. Gopal Mugeraya, National Institute of Technology Karnatka, Suratkal, India

10. Dr. S. Sandhya, National Environmental Engineering Research Institute, Chennai, India

11. Prof. Mahendra Shirsat, Babsaheb Ambedkar University, Aurangabad, India

12. Prof. Chuanling Qiao, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China

13. Dr. Hemant Purohit, National Environmental Engineering Research Institute, Nagpur, India

14. Dr. Basanta Das, Central Institute of Freshwater Aquaculture, Kausalyaganga, Bhubaneswar, India

15. Dr. Rajesh, National Physical Laboratory, New Delhi, India

16. Dr. Kishore Krishnani, Central Institute of Brackish water Aquaculture, Chennai, India

17. Dr. Bikash Mehopatra, Central Institute of Freshwater Aquaculture, Kausalyaganga, Bhubaneswar, India

18. Prof. Ji Lai Gong, Hunan University, China

19. Dr. Mohhamad Asraf, Central Institute of Fisheries Technology, Cochin, India

20. Prof. Cuiping Ma, Qingdao University of Science and Technology, China

21. Dr. Kuiko Komori, University of Tokyo, Japan

22. Prof. Feng Tan, Dalian University of Science and Technology, China

23. Prof. Rabeay Hassan, Egypt

24. Prof. Ayman Mansee, Alexandria University, Egypt

25. Mr. Hui Wang, China Agriculture University

26. Prof. Xiaodong Zhou, Wuhan University

27. Prof. Mei Yang, Chongqing University

28. Ms. Chihiro Hosoi, Tokyo University of Agriculture & Technology

UNDERGRADUATE Researcher SupervisION

1. James Lee, Chemical Engineering,

2. Naro Cherung, Chemical Engineering

3. Donald Rudolph, Chemical Engineering (Paper)

4. Andrew Nguyen, Biochemistry (Paper)

5. Marc Aquino, Chemical Engineering

6. Ms. Monica Vyas, Biomedical Science

7. Patrick Chiu, Chemical Engineering

8. Ms. Jennifer Stone, Chemical Engineering

9. Robert Brombach, Biochemistry

10. Kent Tesoro, Chemical Engineering

11. Vipul Patel, Biochemistry

12. Alongkorn (Kevin) Kanokbiroon, Chemical Engineering

13. Xongki Dai, Biochemistry

14. Ardeshir Taheri-Tafreshi, Biochemistry

15. Ms. Rosanne Yang, Biochemistry

16. Ottoniel Mejia, Biochemistry

17. Jinapat Yoswattana, Biochemistry

18. Ms. Janet Troxel, Biochemistry

19. Carlos Hangarter, Chemical Engineering (Paper)

20. Ryan Ross, Chemical Engineering

21. Ms. Nicole McBean, Chemical Engineering

22. Ms. Ming Wang, Chemical Engineering

23. Rich Pires, Chemical Engineering

24. Josh Teijen, Chemical Engineering

25. Maxwell Kum, Chemical Engineering (Paper)

26. Ms. Etinosa Agbonwaneten, Chemical Engineering

27. Ms. Tammy Green, Chemical Engineering

28. Samir Chauhan, Biochemistry (Paper)

29. Ranjan Iyer, Biomedical Science

30. Ms. Alexandra Martinez, Univ. of Puterico, Bioanalytical Science REU

31. Zachary Hilton, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

32. Kevin Chen, Chemical Engineering

33. Ms. Nichia Chartuprayoon, Chemical Engineering

34. Paul Ghougassian, Chemical Engineering

35. Armando Jiminez, UC Santa Barbra, UC LEADS

36. Brian Lunt, Arizona State Univ., Bioanalytical Science REU

37. Naveen Menon, Princeton, SUNRISE REU

38. Harmoz Kanifar, Biochemistry

39. Seog Lee, Biochemistry

40. Jamal Phillips, Biochemistry

41. David Chen, Chemical Engineering

42. Jonathan Manion, Chemical Engineering

43. Wesley Chen, Chemical Engineering

44. Ms. Melissa, Oregon State University, Chemical Engineering

45. Brian Lunt, Arizona State University, Electrical Engineering

46. Frank Sobernais, Chemical Engineering

47. Clive Wang, University of Massachusetts Chemical Engineering

48. Ms. Lora Leveno, Chemical Engineering

49. Ms. Jacquelin Guttirez, Chemical Engineering

50. Eric Garcia, Bioengineering

51. Armando Rodriquez, Chemical Engineering

52. Dhairya Patel, Chemical Engineering

53. Ms. Evelyn Pereyra, Chemical Engineering

54. Jerrell Mendoza, Chemical Engineering

55. Vincent Saint, Chemical Engineering

56. Dhaval Kothari, Chemical Engineering

57. Alberto Hernandez, Costa Rica Institute of Technology

58. Gerardo Madrigal, Costa Rica Institute of Technology

59. Anthony Ramirez, Chemical Engineering

60. Shirajul Haque, Chemical Engineering

61. Mr. Joseph Baladad, Bioengineering

62. Mr. Jorge Sandoval, Costa Rica Institute of Technology

63. Mr. Derek Vi, Chemical Engineering

64. Ms. Ema Alatini, Bioengineering

65. Ms. Brittney Shaver, Bioengineering

66. Ms. Vijaypriya Ganesan, Bioengineering

67. Ms. Noemi Mendoza, Chemical & Environmental Engineering

68. Mr. Sean Esqueda, Bioengineering

69. Ms. Annie Wong, Chemical & Environmental Engineering

70. Mr. Danish Pirzada, Chemical & Environmental Engineering

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Updated 02/01/2018