
David Erickson
SC Thomas Sze Director and Sibley College Professor, Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Joint Professor of Nutritional Sciences

Xiangkun (Elvis) Cao
Mechanical Engineering Ph.D.
Elvis works on scalable artificial photosynthesis via reactor engineering and smartphone-based biosensors.

Yue Ren
Mechanical Engineering Ph.D.
Yue is developing a platform for automating reproductive management of cattle. She is also developing a highly sensitive platform for rapid aflatocicosis assessment.

Duncan McCloskey
Biomedical Engineering Ph.D.
Duncan’s research focuses on point-of-care devices for nucleic acid diagnostics. He works with the TINY, MINI, and BLENDER to address Kaposi’s Sarcoma, COVID-19, and more.

Rose Buchmann
Biomedical Engineering Ph.D.
Rose works on developing point-of-care molecular diagnostics for infectious diseases and nutritional immunology. She focuses on creating inexpensive, easy-to-use devices that can be deployed in low-resource settings.

Taylor Oeschger
Biomedical Engineering Ph.D.
Taylor focuses on low-cost diagnostics for infectious diseases and antibiotic resistance.

Aakash Choubal
Mechanical Engineering Ph.D.

Juan Boza
Biomedical Engineering Ph.D.

Richard Hoff
Richard is working on developing a point-of-care diagnostic kit for molecular subtyping of breast cancers that will be highly suitable for use in lower to middle-income countries.
- Ryan Snodgrass ’19 – Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering
- Sasank Vemulapati ’19 – Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering
- Ruisheng (Rick) Wang ’20 – Ph.D. Biomedical Engineering
- Elizabeth Rey ’19 – Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering
- Yuval Kaminer ’19 – MS Mechanical Engineering
- Zhengda Lu ’19 – Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering
- Serge Yhombi (2016-2018) – Postdoc
- Varun Kopparthy (2016-2019) – Postdoc
- Perry Schein ’17 – Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering
- Elizabeth Case ’17 – MSc Mechanical Engineering
- Dakota O’Dell ’16 – Ph.D. Applied Physics
- Aadhar Jain ’16 – Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering
- Seoho Lee ’16 – Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering
- Abdurrahman Gumus ’14 – Ph.D. Electrical Engineering
- Saad ’14 – Ph.D. Applied Physics
- Pilgyu Kang ’14 – Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering
- Li Jiang ’14 – Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering
- Erica Jung ’13 – Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering
- Matthew Mancuso ’14 – Ph.D. Biomedical Engineering
- Vlad Oncescu ’13 – Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering
- Michael Kalontarov ’13 – Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering
- Michael Mak ’13 – Ph.D. Biomedical Engineering
- Xavier Serey ’13 – Ph.D. Applied Physics
- Sean Moore ’11 – MS Mechanical Engineering
- Aram Chung ’11 – Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering
- Mekala Krishnan ’11 – Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering
- Yih-Fan Chen (2010-2011) – Postdoc
- Inhee Choi (2009-2011) – Postdoc
- Bernardo Cordovez ’10 – Ph.D./Postdoc Mechanical Engineering
- Allen Yang ’10 – Ph.D. Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering