Alumni

Potdoctoral Scientists

Dr. Ryan Loh

PhD. UIUC (Psychology & Neuroscience),

In the group 2017-2020

Topic: In-vivo electrophysiology examining neural circuits underlying complex behavior

Job: Data Scientist , Denver Health

Dr. Sungho Kim

PhD. CMU (Electricial Engineering),

In the group 2019-2021

Nano dialysis neural probe with nanoporous silicon membrane G

Job: Engineer, Samsung Electronics

Graduate students

Akshit Mahajan (ECE)

BS, IIT Dehli (Engineering Physics), 2023

MS, ECE 2023-2025

Stress engineering and deep tissue sampling

Job: PhD student at UIUC in Rohit Bhargava group.

Hrishikesh Thyagarajan Iyer (ECE)

B.S., IIT Bombay (Electrical Engineering), 2019

PhD. ECE. 2019-2025

Waveguide integrated meta beam shaper for optogenetics applicaitons

First Job: Sr. Engineer at Apple

Yu Ding (Physics)

MS, UIUC (Physics), 2019

PhD Physics, 2019 -2024

Ultrafast sensory information processing of whisker micro vibrations

First Job: Postdoctoral Scientist, Harvard/MGH

Weihua Shi (ECE)

B.S., Peking University (Electrical Engineering), 2019

PhD ECE 2019 - 2024

Nanodialysis-integrated implantable neural probes

First Job: Senior Process Engineer, Intel

Christopher Kenji Brenden (BioEng)

B.S., New Mexico (Chemical Engineering), 2018

PhD BioEng 2018 - 2024

Electrochemical on-chip detection of neurochemicals

First Job: Postdoctoral Scientist , Chan-Zuckerberg Biohub Chicago

Yan Zhang (ECE)

M.S., Tsinghua (Instrument Science and Technology),

PhD ECE 2017-2021

On-demand droplet generation for on-chip high temporal resolution chemical sensing

First Job: Software Engineer, Google

Colin Graber (CS) (jointly with Prof. Schwing)

B.S., Purdue (Computer Engineering),

PhD (ECE) 2016-2021

Structured graphical models

First Job: Software Engineer at Waymo

Kun Hu (BioEng)

B.S., Lanzhou University (Biology),

MS (BioEng) 2020-2023

First Job: Data Engineer at StoneX

Prasoon Jha (ECE)

B.S., Toronto (Electrical Engineering),

MS ECE 2018-2020

Implantable optogenetics neural probes

Job: FPGA Software Engineer, Intel

Yifei Yan (ECE)

B.S.. Tsinghua (Materials Science and Engineering),

MS, ECE 2017-2019

Design and fabrication of ultra-thin nanoporous membrane used for dialysis.

First Job: Machine Learning Engineer at Apple

Ari Esters (ECE)

B.S., Stanford (Chemical Engineering),

MS, UIUC (Electrical Engineering), 2016-2018

Simulation, fabrication, and testing of silicon nanofluidic channels for chemical transport

First job: Process Engineer, Micron Technology

Oscar Bi (ECE)

B.S., UIUC (Electrical Engineering)

MS, UIUC (Electrcial Engineering), 2016-2018

Silicon process development for surface nanofluidic channels

First job: Process Engineer, Micron Technology

Undergraduate students

Heeran Yang (Molecular and Cellular Biology)

2024-2025

Ethological behavior in tactile virtual reality

Alexander Lee (CS)

2024

2D probabilstic time to collision algorithms

Chengyuan Peng (CE)

2024-2025

Algorithms for inference of dynamic network connectivity

Nur Al-Kodmany (Psychology)

2021-2023 Ethological behavior in tactile virtual reality

Job: pursuing MS in Physics

Kathleen Ferreira (MechSE)

2019-2020 Processing development for integrated neuroprobes

Job: Process Engineer, Texas Instruments

Alyssa Licudine (BioE)

2019-2020 Electrostatic droplet counter

Job: Product Development Engineer, Intel

Summer interns

Xingyu Chen (BioE)

M.S., UIUC (BioEng), 2018

B.S., Shanghai Jiao Tong (BioMedical) 2017

Signal analysis software for texture presentation in mice behavioral experiments

Yuan Zhu (BioE)

M.S., UIUC (BioEng) 2018

B.S., Shanghai Jiao Tong (BioMedical) 2017

Virtual tactile reality for rodents

Previous group members at IBM Watson Research Center

Postdoctoral scientists

Eric Dulkeith (TU Munich) “Optical nonlinearities in silicon photonic crystal waveguides” 2003-2005

Currently Executive at IBM, Strategic Partnerships & Alliances for R&D

Fengnian Xia (Princeton) “Slow light in coupled resonators” 2005-2007

Currently Assoc. Professor at Yale

William Green (Caltech) “Silicon modulator” 2006-2007

Currently Program Director for IBM Corporate Technology

Joris Van Campenhout (Ghent) “Broadband optical switches” 2007-2009

Currently Director at IMEC

Jin Hong Park (Stanford) “Dark current reduction in germanium MSM photodetectors” 2009-2010

Currently Ass. Professor at Sungkyunkwan University

Jessie Rosenberg (Caltech) “Microring silicon modulators” 2010-2011

Currently Director at Lightmatter

Jon Proesel (CMU) “CMOS analog circuits design for nanophotonics” 2010-2012

Currently Director IC at Nubis Communications

Huapu Pan (Virginia Tech) “Photodetectros and integrated nanophotonics receivers” 2010-2012

Currently , AI Engineer at Google AI

Seyoung Kim (UT Austin) “Neuromorphic RRAM devices” 2014-2015

Currently Prof. at POSTECH, S. Korea