Principal Investigator

Dr. Ian Papautsky

Ian Papautsky, PhD

Richard and Loan Hill Professor of Bioengineering
Co-Director, NSF Center for Advanced Design & Manufacturing of Integrated Microfluidics

Email: papauts@uic.edu
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=xp1m6IQAAAAJ&hl=en

Research Scientists

Dr. Jian Zhou

Dr. Jian Zhou
Research Assistant Professor

PhD, Electrical Engineering
University of Cincinnati, 2012

jzhou88@uic.edu

Dr. Alireza (Ali) Rahnama

Dr. Alireza (Ali) Rahnama
Post-Doctoral Research Associate

PhD, Chemical Engineering
Louisiana State University, 2023

arahna4@uic.edu

PhD Students

Celine Macaraniag

Celine Macaraniag
BS, Bioengineering
University of Illinois Chicago

cmacar3@uic.edu

Sana Sheybani

Sana Sheybanikashani
BS, Materials Science and Engineering
Sharif University of Technology

sshey@uic.edu

Master Students

Martina Fabrizi

Martina Fabrizi
Master Student

BS, Industrial Engineering
Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma

mfabri2@uic.edu
Chiara Francesca Ghera

Chiara Francesca Ghera
Master Student

BS, Ingegneria Biomedica
Università degli Studi di Firenze

cghera2@uic.edu
Mario Raspanti

Mario Raspanti
Master Student

BS, Ingegneria Biomedica
Politecnico di Milano

mraspa2@uic.edu

Undergraduate Students

Ifra Khan

Ifra Khan

University of Illinois Chicago

ikhan56@uic.edu

Kelly Panariti

Kelly Panariti

University of Illinois Chicago

kpana2@uic.edu

Alumni (partial list)

Name Current Position Previous Position
Dr. Elena Boselli (Ph.D '24) Entrepreneurial Fellow, Chicago Biomedical Consortium (CBC)
Dr. Qiyue Luan (Ph.D. '23) R&D Scientist, ALIT Biotech (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
Dr. Hua Gao (Ph.D. '22) Scientist I, Abveris, Twist Bioscience
Dr. Zhehao Zhang (Ph.D. '22) Post-Doctoral Fellow, Boston University
Dr. Prithviraj Mukherjee (Ph.D. '21) Research Fellow, Mayo Clinic
Dr. Xiao Wang (Ph.D. '16) Post-Doctoral Fellow, Mass. General Hospital & Harvard Medical School
Dr. Wenjing Kang (Ph.D. '16) Post-Doctoral Fellow, Northeastern University
Dr. Yungang Liu (Ph.D. '16) Post-Doctoral Fellow, Mayo Clinic
Dr. Richard Craig Murdock (Ph.D. '15) Program Manager, Air Force Research Labs
Dr. Xing Pei (Ph.D. '15) University of Cincinnati
Dr. Michael Ratterman (Ph.D. '15) Founder, Venzi Engineering
Dr. Ananda Banerjee (Ph.D. '13) Process TD Engineer, Intel Corporation
Dr. Li Shen (Ph.D. '12) Process Engineer, Intel Corporation
Dr. Jian Zhou (Ph.D. '12) Assistant Professor, Zhejiang University
Dr. Preetha Jothimuthu (Ph.D. '11) Post-Doctoral Research Scholar, Stanford University School of Medicine Post-Doctoral Fellow, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
Dr. Brian Choi (Ph.D. '10) Process Integration R&D Engineer, Avago Technologies Post-Doctoral Fellow, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
Dr. Ali Asgar S. Bhagat (Ph.D. '09) CTO, Clearbridge Biomedics Post-Doctoral Fellow, MIT
Dr. Jin-Hwan Lee (Ph.D. '07) Photolithography Process Engineer, Qorvo, Inc. Post-Doctoral Fellow, Georgia Institute of Technology