Category: Current Members
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Cong Khan Duy Do, PhD Student
Duy is conducting his PhD study in Mechanical Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He gradudated with BS and MSE in Aviation Engineering from the Hanoi University of Science and Technology (HUST), Vietman. His research regards the ML-guided 3D printing of soft materials.
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Benny Wang, PhD Student
Benny is conducting his PhD study in Mechanical Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He gradudated with BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois. His research regards the microfluidics-based nanoparticle synthesis for cancer therapy.
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Seamus Mellican, PhD Student
Seamus is conducting his PhD study in Mechanical Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He gradudated with BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois. His research regards the PDAC-liver interaction using microfluidics and 3D printing techniques.
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Ali Aykut Akalin, PhD Student
Ali is conducting his PhD study in Mechanical Sceince and Engineering at the University of Illinos Urbana-Champaign. He graduated from Middle Eastern Technical University (METU) in Turkiye with his BS and MS degrees in Mechanical Engineering. His research regards neuroinflammation and brain transport MPS models.
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Anthony Mercader, Postdoc Fellow
Anthony is a Postdoc Fellow in Mechanical Science and Engineering. He received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh. He performs experimental research to develop and test microfluidic physiology models of cancers and brain diseases for drug discovery and biology research. Specifically, he will work on developing microfluidics platforms perfused with human…
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Hogyeong Gwak, Ph.D., Postdoc Fellow
Hogyeong is a Postdoc Fellow in the Han Research Group since March 2023. He received Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Yonsei University in South Korea.
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Tarun Singh, Ph.D. Student
Tarun is a PhD student in Mechanical Engineering. He received his M.T. and B.T. in Mechanical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Varanasi.
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Natalia Ospina Munoz, Ph.D., Postdoc Fellow
Nataila is a Postdoc Fellow starting from August 2022. She received her PhD in Biomedical Sciences from the National Univeristy of Colombia. Her Ph.D. research focused on epithelial-mesenchymal transition of cancers. She was a visiting scholar of Han Group in 2019.
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Sae Rome Choi, Ph.D., Postdoc Fellow
Sae Rome is a Postdoc Fellow in Mechanical Science and Engineering as well as Cancer Center at Illinois. She received her Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University and B.S. in Chemical Engineering from The University of Notre Dame. She is the recipient of the Winkelman-Davidson Fellowship from the Graduate School at Purdue and SIRG…
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Bumsoo Han, Ph.D., Principal Investigator
Bumsoo Han is Professor of Mechanical Science and Engineering and Phil & Ann Sharp Scholar in Cancer Research. He is also Biohub Investigator of Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Chicago. Prior to joining the University of Illinois, he has been Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Biomedical engineering at Purdue University. He was also the Program Leader of…