Principal Investigator
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
Post-Doctoral Research Associate
Dr. Alireza (Ali) Rahnama
PhD, Chemical Engineering
Louisiana State University, 2023
PhD Students
Sana Sheybanikashani
BS, Materials Science and Engineering
Sharif University of Technology
PhD Students
Chiara Francesca Ghera
BS, Ingegneria Biomedica
Università degli Studi di Firenze
Master's Students
Maddalena Arrighi
BS, Ingegneria Biomedica
Politecnico di Milano
Master's Students
Sara Rebuzzi
BS, Ingegneria Biomedica
Politecnico di Milano
Undergraduate Students
Alumni (partial list)
| Name | Current Position | Previous Position |
|---|---|---|
| Dr. Celine Macaraniag (Ph.D. '25) | University of Illinois Chicago | |
| Mario Raspanti (M.S. '25) | Politecnico di Milano | |
| Martina Fabrizi (M.S. '25) | Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma | |
| 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) | Assitant Professor, 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 |