Principal Investigator

Jeff Tza-Huei Wang

Professor
Mechanical Engineering & Biomedical Engineering Depts.
Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center
Institute for NanoBioTechnology
Johns Hopkins University

Shaffer Hall 200A
3400 N. Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21218
Tel: (410)516-7086
Fax: (410)516-7254
Email Address: thwang@jhu.edu
Curriculum Vitae

Faculty

Dr. Thomas Pisanic
Research Scientist at INBT
tpisanic@jhu.edu
Dr. Kuangwen Hsieh
Assistant Research Professor in Mechanical Engineering
khsieh4@jhu.edu
Dr. Johan Melendez
Assistant Professor in Medicine
jmelend3@jhmi.edu

Postdoctoral Fellows

Dr. Chrissy O'Keefe
cokeefe6@jhmi.edu

Ph.D. Students

Andrew Li
Biomedical Engineering
ali36@jhmi.edu
Sixuan Li
Mechanical Engineering
sli124@jhu.edu
Joon Soo Park
Biomedical Engineering
jpark267@jhmi.edu
Pei Wei Lee
Mechanical Engineering
lpeiwei1@jhu.edu
Fangchi Shao
Biomedical Engineering
fshao1@jhmi.edu
Jiumei Hu
Mechanical Engineering
jhu66@jhu.edu
Alexander Hasnain
Biomedical Engineering
alex.hasnain@jhu.edu
Yang Zhao
Biomedical Engineering
zyang63@jhu.edu
Asher Varon
Mechanical Engineering
avaron4@jh.edu
Amelia Traylor
Mechanical Engineering
atraylo3@jhu.edu
Patarajarin Akarapipad
Biomedical Engineering
pakarap1@jhu.edu
Weiwen Cui
Biomedical Engineering
wcui7@jhmi.edu
Lai Wei
Mechanical Engineering
lwei27@jh.edu
Arman Mirmiran
Mechanical Engineering
Amirmir1@jhu.edu
Hanran Lei
Biomedical Engineering
hlei8@jhu.edu

Master Students

Dong Jin (Matthew) Park
Biomedical Engineering
dpark55@jh.edu

Undergraduate Students

David Lu, BME

Jamie Cheng, ChemBE

Sayuni Dharmasena, BME

Feiyang Hwang, BME

Jonathen Wang, MechE

Lab Alumni

Postdoctoral Scholars:

  • Dr. Liben Chen (Associate Research Scientist in Mechanical Engineering 2019-2023)
    Current Position: Systems Engineer, MESO SCALE DIAGNOSTICS
  • Dr. Alexander Trick (2021)
    Current Position: Co-Founder, Prompt Diagnostics
  • Dr. Alejandro Stark (2021-2022)
    Current Position: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Mayo Clinic
  • Dr. Hui Li (2019-2022)
    Current Position: Assistant Professor, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
  • Dr. Hoan Ngo (2020-2022)
    Current Position: Assistant Professor, Florida Southern College
  • Dr. Aniruddha Kaushik (2020)
  • Dr. Divya Nalayanda (2015-2018)
  • Dr. Sarah Friedrich (2018)
  • Dr. Dong-Jin Shin (2016-2018)
  • Dr. Helena Zec (2015-2016)
    Current Position: Business Associate Consultant, ZS Associates
  • Dr. Bo Chen (2017-2018), Visiting Scholar, Jiangsu Province Hospital
  • Dr. Yi-Fan Hsieh (2015-2016)
  • Dr. Wei Liu (2014-2015), Visiting Scholar, Wuhan University
  • Dr. Weihua Guan (2013-2014)
    Current Position: Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering, Pennsylvania State University
  • Dr. Duncan (Jen-Kuei) Wu (2013)
    Current Position: Postdoctorate Researcher at National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
  • Dr. Suneil Hosmane (2011-2012)
    Current Position: Analyst, Intercept Pharmaceuticals
  • Dr. Stephanie Fraley (2012)
    Current Position: Assistant Professor, UCSD
  • Dr. Ling Zhang (2011)
    Current Position: Assistant Professor, WPI Advanced Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
  • Dr. Chih-Han Chiou (2010-2011)
    Current Position: Principal Investigator in Microsystems Technology Center, ITRI South, Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), Tainan Country, Taiwan
  • Dr. Guoxiang Cai, MD (2010-2011)
    Current Position: Associate Professor and Surgeon, Medical College of Fudan University, China
  • Dr. Seung Kyung Park (2009-2011)
    Current Position: Research Scientist at Samsung, Korea
  • Dr. Chun-Yang Zhang (2003-2005)
    Current Position: Professor, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, China

Ph.D. Students:

  • Dr. Fan-En Chen, graduated in 2023
    Current Position: Senior Consultant, Boston Consulting
  • Dr. Pengfei Zhang, graduated in 2022
    Current Position: Postdoc Fellow, Princeton University
  • Dr. Alexander Trick, graduated in 2022
    Current Position: Postdoc Fellow, Johns Hopkins University
  • Dr. Aniruddha Kaushik, graduated in 2020
    Current Position: Senior Consultant, Navigant Consulting
  • Dr. Christine O’Keefe, graduated in 2020
    Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Johns Hopkins University
  • Dr. Pornpat Athamanolap, graduated in 2019
    Current Position: Professor, Mahidol University, Thailand
  • Dr. Ye Zhang, graduated in 2019
    Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, MIT
  • Dr. Sarah Friedrich, graduated in 2018
    Current Position: Ontera, Inc.
  • Dr. Dong-Jin Shin PhD, graduated in 2016
    Current Position: Data Scientist, Well Dot, Inc.
  • Dr. Helena Zec, graduated in 2015
    Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Johns Hopkins University
  • Dr. Cyrus Beh, graduated in 2014
    Current Position: Engineer, Agency for Science, Technology, and Research, Singapore
  • Dr. Yunke Song, graduated in 2014
    Current Position: Investment Banker, Morgan Stanley, Japan
  • Dr. Tushar Rane, graduated in 2014
    Current Position: Viterbi Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Southern California
  • Dr. Divya Nalayanda, graduated in 2013
    Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Johns Hopkins University
  • Dr. Yi Zhang, graduated in 2013
    Current Position: Postdoctorate Researcher, The Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, Agency of Science, Technology and Research, Singapore
  • Dr. Vasudev Bailey, graduated in 2010
    Current Position: Consultant, McKinsey & Company
  • Dr. Kelvin Liu, graduated in 2011
    Current Position: Founder & CEO, Circulomics, Inc.
  • Dr. Chris Puleo, graduated in 2009
    Current Position: Research Scientist, GE Global Research Center
  • Dr. Hunter Chen, graduated in 2008
    Current Position: Research Scientist, Regeneron Pharmaceutics Inc.
  • Dr. Yi-Ping Ho, graduated in 2008
    Current Position: Sapere Aude Young Elite Researcher / Assistant Professor, iNANO Center, Aarhus University, Denmark
  • Dr. Hsin-Chih Yeh, graduated in 2008
    Current Position: Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering Department, University of Texas, Austin

M.S. Students:

  • Hanran Lei, MS graduated in 2023
    Current Position: Ph.D. student, Johns Hopkins University
  • Preston Zimprich, MS graduated in 2023
    Current Position: Senior Scientist, Prompt Diagnostics
  • Mei Jin, MS graduated in 2023
    Current Position: Senior Scientist, Prompt Diagnostics
  • Parker Treadway, MS graduated in 2022
    Current Position: Product Engineer, Prompt Diagnostics
  • Julie Hwang, MS graduated in 2020
    Current Position: Ph.D. student, Johns Hopkins University
  • Yang Zhao, MS graduated in 2020
    Current Position: Ph.D. student, Johns Hopkins University
  • Anju Nambiar, MS graduated in 2021
    Current Position: Engineer in industry
  • Kushagra Shah, MS graduated in 2021
    Current Position: Engineer in industry
  • Meet Pastakia, MS graduated in 2018
  • Brant Axt, MS graduated in 2017
    Current Position: Engineer at Medtronic
  • Tony Zheng, MS graduated in 2017
    Current Position: M.D./Ph.D. Student, Oregon Health & Science University
  • Lily Liu, MS graduated in 2015
    Current Position: M.D. Student, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
  • Pornpat Athamanolap, MS graduated in 2013
    Current Position: BME, Ph.D. Candidate, Johns Hopkins University
  • Alejandro Stark Quiroz, MS graduated in 2012
    Current Position: ME, Ph.D. Candidate, Johns Hopkins University
  • Kent Murray, MS graduated in 2007
    Current Position: Engineer, U.S. DoD
  • Shu-Yi Chao, MS graduated in 2005
    Current Position: Engineer in industry

Undergraduate Students:

  • Thomas DiSorbo, BME
  • Daniel Giammanco, BME
  • Arik Slepyan, BME
  • Emily Chang, BME
  • Tiffany Hu, BME
  • Yuncong Mao, BME
  • Vincent Wu (BME, 2014-2018)
  • Rachel Bang (ME, 2015-2018)
  • David Mai (UC Berkeley, INBT REU Summer 2018)
  • Mohammed Munim (University of Illinois, INBT REU Summer 2017)
  • Catherine Tang (Harvard College, INBT REU Summer 2016)
  • Polly Ma (JHU CBID)
  • Eric Simone (BME, 2003-2004)
    Current status: Scientist at Vertex Pharmaceutics Inc.
  • Matthew Kung (BME, 2003-2005)
    Current status: Medical student at Tufts University
  • Marcos Kuorki (BME, 2004-2005)
    Current status: M.D/Ph.D. student at University of Minnesota
  • Jeff Johnson (EE, 2004)
    Current status: Industry
  • Annys Santoso (BME, 2004)
    Current status: Industry
  • Caroline Chen (ChemE, 2006-2007)
  • Karen Liu (BME, undergraduate from University of California, Irvine; 2006)
  • Jennifer Ferrigan (BME, 2007)
  • Paxson Trautman(BME, 2006-2007)
  • Lok Man Chu (BME, 2006-2007)
  • Alic Chen (ME, 2006-2007)
  • Teck Chun Lim (BME, 2005-2007)
    Current status: PhD student at MIT
  • Peter Lillehoj (ME, 2007)
    Current status: Assistant Professor at Michigan State University
  • Jennifer Petsche (BME, 2006-2007)
  • Chao Yin (Duke University , NSF REU Summer 2009, winner Pratt Fellowship)
  • Sean Virgile (U. of Rochester , NSF REU Summer 2008, winner Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship)
  • Benjamin Rho (BME, 2008)
  • Joe Chung (BME, 2008)
  • Jasper Chen (2007-2008)
  • Katrin Passlack (University of Oklahoma, NSF REU Summer 2010)
  • Ye Zhang (Tsinghua University, JHU-Tsinghua BME student exchange program 2010)
  • Alex Lo (Materials Sciences, 2009-2010)
  • Brian Keeley (ChemE, 2008-2011)
  • Weizhuang (BME, 2008-2011)
  • Chris Razavi (Biophysics, 2009-)
  • Jennifer Tsuan (BME, 2010)
  • Taehong Min (BME, 2010)
  • Allatah Mekile (Biotechnology, East Stroudsburg University, NSF REU Summer 2011)
  • Thanapoom Boonipat (BME, 2011)
  • Frank Qin (BME, 2011-2012)
  • Joseph Shin (BME, 2011-2012)
  • Jeffery Knox (BME, 2011-)
  • Melissa Gosse (ChemBioE, 2011-)
  • Justin Lee (ME, 2010-2011)