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Our Alumni

Former postdoctoral scholars and graduate students

Gang Lu

Postdoctoral Scholar

2014-2018

Current Position:

Professor, Shandong University, China

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Xiaotian Qi

Postdoctoral Scholar

2017-2020

Current Position:

Professor, Wuhan University, China

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Binh Khanh Mai

Postdoctoral Scholar

2019-2024

Current Position:

Research Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh

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Rositha Kuniyil

Postdoctoral Scholar

2020-2021

Current Position:

Associate professor, IIT Palakkad, India

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Chong-Lei Ji

Postdoctoral Scholar

2021-2022

Current Position:

Research Assistant Professor, ShanghaiTech University

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Cheng Fang

PhD Student

2014-2019

Current Position:

Associate Director, Merck & Co.

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Huiling Shao

PhD Student

2014-2019

Current Position:

Assistant Professor, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

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Cristian A. Morales-Rivera

PhD Student

2014-2019

Current Position:

Research Chemist, PPG Industries

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Humair Omer

PhD Student (co-advised by Prof. Brummond)

2014-2020

Current Position:

Associate Professor, BRAC University, Bangladesh

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Tugce G. Erbay

PhD Student (co-advised by Prof. Brummond)

2015-2021

Current Position:

Industry Projects Coordinator, Koç University, Turkey

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Ilia Kevlishvili

PhD Student

2016-2021

Current Position:

Assistant Professor, Baylor University

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Yue Fu

PhD Student

2019-2022

Current Position:

Senior Scientist, Merck & Co.

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Yimin Chen

PhD Student

2018-2023

Current Position:

Postdoctoral Scholar, Nanjing University, China

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Kevin P. Quirion

PhD Student

2020-2024

Current Position:

Postdoctoral Scholar, Brigham Young University

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Luke T. Jesikiewicz

PhD Student

2017-2020, 2022-2024

Current Position:

Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Illinois, Chicago

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Thomas Tugwell

PhD Student

2021-2025

Current Position:

Senior Scientist, Avista Therapeutics

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Yu Zhang

PhD Student

2019-2025

Current Position:

Postdoctoral Scholar, California Institute of Technology

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Gabriel Cintrón-Rosado

MSc Student

2015-2018

Current Position:

Instructor, Manchester Bidwell Corporation

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Tyler Ahlstrom

MSc Student (part-time)

2017-2022

Current Position:

Senior Data Scientist, Highmark Health

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Elena Kusevska

MSc Student

2018-2019

Current Position:

Python Developer, Sentice

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Bruce A. Thompson

Graduate Student

2019-2020

Current Position:

MBA candidate, Rice Business School

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William C. Bell

Graduate Student

2019-2022

Current Position:

Resilient Coders

Publications

Visiting Scholars and Visiting Graduate Students

  • Prof. Ran Fang (Lanzhou University), 2015–2016

  • Prof. Hua Hao (Institute of Solid State Physics, CAS), 2018–2020

  • Dr. Daniela Ortega (Universidad Bernardo O'Higgins), 2019

  • Prof. Wenrui Zheng (Shanghai University of Engineering Science), 2019–2020

  • Dr. Valentin Bauer (University of Strasbourg), 2023

  • Yang Yang (MIT), 2014

  • Daniel Glazier (UW-Madison), 2016

  • Yanyan Wang (Zhengzhou University), 2016–2018

  • Jianchun Wang (University of Chicago), 2016

  • Lin Zhou (Lanzhou University), 2019–2021

  • Daniel Lee (Carnegie Mellon University), 2023

  • Derek Hu (UW-Madison), 2024

  • Xin Zhi Sui (Boston College), 2024

  • Loay Alaa Bedda (Purdue University), 2025

Undergraduate Students

  • Taylor Keane (2014–2016)

  • Luke Jesikiewicz (2015–2017) (current position​: postdoctoral scholar, University of Illinois Chicago)

  • Chris Guirguis (2015) (current position: Senior Software Engineer, Dexcom)

  • Sarah Dubnik (2015)

  • Veenal Sample (2015, 2016) (current position: Senior Manufacturing Engineer, Boeing)

  • William Bell (2015)

  • Samantha Hong (2015) (current position: Technology Business Manager, Millennium)

  • Yuening Wang (2015–2016) (current position: Senior Researcher, Huawei Canada)

  • Amanda Jacubowsky (2016)

  • Kurt de Fiebre (2017)

  • Sheng Feng (2017) (current position: Scientist, Amgen)

  • Rui Zhang (2017) (current position​: postdoctoral scholar, Cornell University)​

  • Francisco Carattino (2017–2018)

  • Parampreet Deol (2017–2018)

  • Jiaqi Zhu (2018) (current position: Ph.D. student, Duke University)

  • Daniel B. Marchant (2018) (current position: Associate, Reddie & Grose, UK)

  • Daniel Maienshein (2019) (current position: Ph.D. student, University of Pittsburgh)

  • Tao Sheng (2019–2020) (current position: IRTA Research Fellow, NIH)

  • Katherina Murcek (2020–2022) (current position: Ph.D. student, University of Pittsburgh)

  • Kaihong Sun (2020)

  • Logan J. Newman (2020–2021) (current position: DMD candidate, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh)

  • Yue Wu (2021) (current position: Ph.D. student, University of Wisconsin-Madison)

  • Austin S. Nooner (2022)

  • Rhea H. Karim (2022) (current position: Medical Assistant, UPMC Children's Community Pediatrics)

  • Corrinne Stahl (2022–2024) (current position: Ph.D. student, University of Pittsburgh)

  • Nathan Yuhas (2023)

  • Gavin M. Rush (2024)

  • Ai-Kee Cheung (2024) (current position: Ph.D. student, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)

  • Yuxiang Zhang (2024) (current position: Ph.D. student, National University of Singapore)

  • Wade D. Curtis (2025) (current position: R&D Technician, Vitro)

  • Thomas Shaughnessy (2025–Present)

  • Mateo Contreras (2025)

High School Students

  • Yibo Zhang (2019-2020) (current position: Firmware Developer, Lumentum)

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