Mirkin Group Alumni
Where Are They Now?
Mirkin Group Alumni – Faculty Members
Professors
Agnes Scott College
- Prof. Meisa Khoshbin Salaita (Visiting Professor)
Alma College
- Prof. Kyle Gibson (Assistant Professor)
Arizona State University
- Prof. Eileen Seo (Assistant Professor)
Boston University
- Prof. Keith Brown (Assistant Professor)
- Prof. Liangliang Hao (Assistant Professor)
- Prof. Michelle Teplensky (Assistant Professor)
Bradley University
- Prof. Dean Campbell (Professor)
California Polytechnic State University
- Prof. Peter Schwartz (Professor)
Carnegie Mellon University
- Prof. Rongchao Jin (Professor)
Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
- Prof. Daniel Maspoch Comamala (Associate Professor)
Chosun University
- Prof. Jong Kuk Lim (Assistant Professor)
Chungbuk National University
- Prof. Youngjo Kim (Professor)
Chungnam National University
- Prof. Jungseok Heo (Professor)
City University of Hong Kong
- Prof. Hua Zhang (Professor)
College of the Holy Cross
- Prof. Joshua Farrell (Thomas E. D’Ambra Professor)
Colorado School of Mines
- Prof. C. Michael McGuirk (Assistant Professor)
Dongguk University
- Prof. Jae-Won Jang (Associate Professor)
Duke University
- Prof. Anne Lazarides (Adjunct Professor)
Emory University
- Prof. Khalid Salaita (Associate Professor)
Emporia State University
- Prof. Andrea Luthi (Assistant Professor)
Ewha Women’s University
- Prof. So-Jung Park (Professor)
Fudan University
- Prof. Gengfeng Zheng (Professor)
- Prof. Pengcheng Chen (Assistant Professor)
Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST)
- Prof. Min Su Han (Professor)
Hallym University
- Prof. Hyojong Yoo (Associate Professor)
Hannam University
- Prof. Kuk Ro Yoon (Professor)
Harold Washington College
- Prof. Thomas Higgins (Professor)
Harvard Medical University
- Prof. Rafael Vega (Assistant Professor)
Harvard University
- Prof. Jarad Mason (Assistant Professor)
Hunan University
- Prof. Hang Xing (Professor)
- Prof. Yige Zhou (Professor)
King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology
- Prof. Ali Alhasan (Assistant Research Professor)
Kongju National University
- Prof. Nak Hang Jang (Professor)
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
- Prof. Sang Woo Han (Professor)
Korea National University of Transportation
- Prof. Jung Hyurk Lim (Associate Professor)
Korea University
- Prof.Bryung Yang Lee (Associate Professor)
- Prof. Jae-Seung Lee (Associate Professor)
- Prof. Hyo Jae Yoon (Assistant Professor)
Korea University Sejong Campus
- Prof. Seongpil Hwang (Professor)
Kyushu University
- Prof. Tsuyohiko Fujigaya (Professor)
Lake Forest College
- Caroline Slone (Lecturer)
Loyola University Chicago
- Prof. Jacob Ciszek (Associate Professor)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Prof. Robert Macfarlane (Associate Professor)
McMaster University
- Prof. Katherine Bujold (Assistant Professor)
Michigan State University
- Prof. Seokhyoung Kim (Assistant Professor)
Nanjing Tech University
- Prof. Fengwei Huo (Professor)
- Prof. Ling Huang (Professor)
Nanjing University Xianlin Campus
- Prof. Jin Zhu (Professor)
Nanyang Technological University
- Prof. Xiaodong Chen (Professor)
- Prof. Can Xue (Associate Professor)
National Taipei University of Technology
- Prof. Yu-Hsu Chang (Associate Professor)
National University of Córdoba
- Prof. Maria Laura Pedano (Assistant Professor)
National University of Singapore
- Prof. Xiaogang Liu (Professor)
New Jersey Institute of Technology
- Prof. Xiaoyang Xu (Associate Professor)
North Carolina State University
- Prof. Albena Ivanisevic (Professor & Director of Graduate Programs)
- Prof. Anne Lazarides (Adjunct Assistant Professor)
Northeastern University
- Prof. Ming Su (Professor)
- Prof. Ke Zhang (Associate Professor)
Northwestern University
- Prof. Robert Elghanian (Research Assistant Professor)
- Prof. Nathan Gianneschi (Jacob & Rosaline Cohn Professor)
- Prof. Igor Kourkine (Professor of Instruction & MBP Associate Director)
- Prof. Andrew Lee (Research Assistant Professor)
- Prof. Sarah Hurst Petrosko (Research Associate Professor & Assistant Director, IIN)
- Prof. C. Shad Thaxton (Associate Professor)
- Prof. Timothy L Sita (Assistant Professor)
- Prof. Maria Cabezas (Research Assistant Professor)
Pohang University of Science and Technology
- Prof. Sarah Park (Assistant Professor)
Pusan National University
- Prof. Sungwook Chung (Assistant Professor)
Rice University
- Dr. Matthew Jones (Assistant Professor)
Rutgers University
- Prof. KiBum Lee (Professor)
- Prof. Yuwei Gu (Assistant Professor)
Seoul National University
- Prof. Jihyun An (Assistant Professor)
- Prof. Seunghun Hong (Professor)
- Prof. Jwa-Min Nam (Professor)
- Prof. Youngeun Kim (Assistant Professor)
Shanghai Jiaotong University
- Prof. Shouwo Guo (Professor)
- Prof. Chuan Zhang (Associate Professor)
SINAP, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Prof. Yi Zhang (Professor)
Sogang University
- Prof. Byung-Keun Oh (Professor)
Sookmyung Women’s University
- Prof. Jung Su Park (Assistant Professor)
Southern Methodist University
- Prof. Anindita Das (Assistant Professor)
Sun Yat-Sen University
- Prof. Zhuang Xie (Associate Professor)
Sungkyunkwan University
- Prof. Sungho Park (Professor)
The City University of New York
- Prof. Adam Braunschweig (Associate Professor)
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
- Prof. C. H. Jonathan Choi (Assistant Professor & Associate Dean)
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
- Prof. Zijian Zheng (Professor)
The University of Hong Kong
- Prof. Seungkyu Lee (Associate Professor)
The University of Massachusetts Lowell
- Prof. Michael Ross (Assistant Professor)
The University of Texas – Austin
- Prof. Cassandra Callmann (Assistant Professor)
- Prof. Devleena Samanta (Assistant Professor)
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
- Prof. Lidong Qin (Professor)
The University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center
- Prof. Neema Navai (Assistant Professor)
Universität Salzburg
- Prof. Gilles Bourret (Associate Professor)
University of California, Los Angeles
- Prof. Alex Spokoyny (Assistant Professor)
University of Connecticut
- Prof. Jessica Rouge (Assistant Professor)
University of Delaware
- Prof. Emily Day (Associate Professor)
- Prof. Elizabeth Singewald (Assistant Professor)
University of Florida
- Prof. Yun-Wei Charles Cao (Professor)
- Prof. W. David Wei (Associate Professor)
University of Kansas
- Prof. Alan Allgeier (Associate Professor)
University of Manchester
- Prof. Radha Boya (Professor)
- Dr. Lu Shin Wong (Lecturer)
University of Maryland
- Prof. YuHuang Wang (Professor)
University of Minnesota
- Prof. T. Andrew Taton (Professor)
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
- Prof. Jian Zhang (Associate Professor)
University of North Texas
- Prof. Brian Meckes (Assistant Professor)
University of Pittsburgh
- Prof. Jill Millstone (Associate Professor)
- Prof. Nathaniel Rosi (Professor)
University of Science and Technology of China
- Prof. Minliang Lai (Assistant Professor)
University of Rochester
- Prof. Benjamin Partridge (Assistant Professor)
University of Toronto
- Prof. Dwight Seferos (Professor, Canada Research Chair)
University of Tsukuba
- Prof. Junpei Kuwabara (Associate Professor)
University of Virginia
- Prof. Charles Machan (Assistant Professor)
University of Washington
- Prof. David Ginger (Alvin L. & Verla R. Kwiram Professor)
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
- Prof. Guoliang Liu (Assistant Professor)
Virginia Tech
- Prof. C. Adrian Figg (Assistant Professor)
Washington University
- Prof. Caroline Ko (Research Associate Professor, Associate Director Research Strategy, BTC)
Washington State University
- Prof. Liane Moreau (Assistant Professor)
Wesleyan University
- Prof. Michelle Personick (Assistant Professor)
Xiamen University
- Prof. Haixin Lin (Assistant Professor)
Yeungnam University
- Prof. Seung Woo Lee (Professor)
Yonsei University
- Prof. Moonhyun Oh (Professor)
- Prof. Wooyoung Shim (Associate Professor)
Industry
10x Genomics
- Dr. Gokay Yamankurt (Automation Engineer)
Abbott Molecular Inc.
- Dr. Feng Xu (Senior Project Manager)
- Dr. Isaac Larkin (Senior Scientist)
- Dr. Benjamin Coleman (Senior Scientist)
Amgen
- Dr. Xiaozhu Zhou (Senior Scientist)
Apple
- Dr. Tuncay Ozel (Engineering Manager)
- Dr. Jinghan Zhu (Module Process Engineer)
Applied Materials
- Dr. Lin Sun (Process Engineer III)
Arbor Biotechnologies
- Dr. Shengshuang Zhu (Principal Scientist)
Atlanta Science Festival
- Dr. Meisa Salaita (Co-founder & Co-Executive Director)
Azul 3D
- Dr. James Hedrick (CEO & Co-Founder)
PrintFoam
- Dr. David Walker (CTO)
b-science.net
- Dr. Pirmin Ulmann (Co-Founder & CEO)
BASF
- Dr. Krishnan Pillai (Engineer)
Baxter
- Dr. Dimitra Georganopoulou (R&D Innovation; Tech Assessment & Scouting)
- Dr. Alex Scott (Principal Engineer)
Bayer Pharmaceuticals
- Dr. Tiffany Halo (Director, Global Regulatory Strategy)
Becton Dickenson
- Dr. Anthony Sprangers (Senior Engineer)
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
- Dr. Haley Hill (Director, Office of the President and Chief of Staff, Global Development)
Boulder Scientific Company
- Dr. Christopher Oliveri (Director R&D)
The Boston Consulting Group
- Dr. Dan Eichelsdoerfer (Senior Researcher)
- Dr. Rustin Golnabi (Consultant)
- Dr. Qingyuan Lin (Consultant)
- Dr. Ryan Thaner (Senior Knowledge Analyst)
Clariant
- Dr. Abrin Schmucker (Materials Characterization Manger)
Codify
- Dr. Brian Herr (Product Strategy)
Concentric Analgesics
- Dr. Dana Weinberger (Director, Regulatory Affairs)
Corning Incorporated
- Dr. Mark Langille (Associate Scientist)
Crystal Chem Inc.
- Dr. Adam Eisenberg (Sales, Business Development & Operations Associate)
Digital Specialty Chemicals Ltd
- Dr. Leijun Hao (Process Development Manager)
Dow Chemical Co
- Dr. Evelyn Auyeung (Associate Research Scientist)
- Dr. Zachary Kean (Senior Chemist)
- Dr. Rob Kennedy (Senior Research Chemist)
- Dr. Janet McMillan (Senior Chemist)
- Dr. Mari Rosen (Associate Research Scientist)
- Dr. Keith Watson (VP, Corporate R&D)
EK Consulting
- Emma Kate Payne Duimstra (Principal Consultant)
European Chemicals Agency
- Abdelqader Sumrein (Scientific Officer)
Evonik
- Dr. You-Moon Jeon (Senior Research Scientist)
EVOQ Therapeutics
- Dr. David Giljohann (CEO)
- Dr. Weston Daniel (CDO)
Exicure
- Dr. Pinal Patel (Analyst/Research Scientist)
Exxon Mobil
- Dr. Joshua Cutler (Senior Researcher)
Flagship Pioneering
- Dr.Max Distler (Associate)
Flashpoint Therapeutics
- Dr.Michael Evangelopoulos (Business Development Manager)
- Dr. Jasper Dittmar (Research and Development Scientist)
Flatiron Health
- Dr. Christopher Mader (Principal, Life Sciences)
Floodlight Training & Consulting
- Kim McCumber (Founder & CEO)
FMC Corporation
- Dr. Savka Stoeva (Research Investigator)
Fresenius Kabi
- Dr. Matthew Massich (Senior Manager, US Medical Affairs, Biosimilars)
Gamry Instruments Inc
- Dr. Jacob Ketter (Instrumentation Chemist)
Genentech
- Dr. Matthew O’Brien (Senior Scientist)
- Dr. Shuya Wang (Tech Development Scientist)
- Dr. Louise Giam (Scientist 3)
GlaxoSmithKline
- Dr. Sasha Ebrahimi (Principal Scientist)
GurryShark Capital
- Dr. Shu He (Vicepresident)
Hallstarr
- Dr. Felicia Dixon Parks (Technical Director, Beauty and Personal Care)
Haemonetics
- Dr. Lisa Cole (Principal Reagent Chemist)
Huawei
- Dr. Ziyin Huang (Research Engineer)
Illumina
- Dr. Timothy Merkel (Senior Scientist)
Independent Consultant
- Dr. Linette Demers
Intel Corp
- Dr. Abha Gosavi (Process Development Engineer)
- Dr. Cindy Zheng (Technology Development Engineer)
- Dr. Liban Jibril (R&D Engineer)
- Dr. Shakirul Islam (R&D Engineer)
ISA Pharmaceuticals
- Dr. Kurinji Krishnamoorthy (Formulation Scientist)
Jannsen, Johnson & Johnson
- Dr. Joseph Kakkassery (Principal Engineer)
Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP
- Dr. Martin Masar (Patent Attorney)
Kruss USA
- Dr. Raymond Sanedrin (Application Manager)
Lam Research
- Dr. Kent Miao (Product Engineer)
- Dr. Yiming Hu (Process Engineer)
- Dr. Tong Cai (Process Engineer)
Lonza Pharma & Biotech
- Dr. W. Brett Caldwell (Associate Director, Customer Proposals)
L’Oreal
- Dr. Zhi Li (Manger, Research & Innovation)
Lumere
- Allison Wu (Product Manager)
Lumileds
- Dr. Jinan Steven Chai (World Wide Technical Project Lead)
McKinsey & Company
- Dr. Matthew Banholzer (Associate Principal)
- Dr. Mattew Vasher (Associate)
Medtronic Inc
- Dr. Kaimin Chen (Staff Scientist)
- Dr. Robert Mucic (Senior Engineering Manager)
Mattiq
- Dr. Michael Ashley (Senior Research Scientist)
- Dr. Jordan Swisher (Director of High-Throughput Experimentation)
- Dr. Carolin Wahl
Merck
- Dr. Natalia Chernyak (Senior Scientist)
- Dr. Andrew Sinegra (Senior Scientist)
- Dr. Heather Calcaterra (Senior Scientist)
- Dr. Jungsoo Park (Associate Scientist)
Meta
- Dr. Alejo Lifschitz (Technical Lead)
- Dr. Yu Zhou (Engineering Manager)
Milliken & Co
- Dr. Jinan Chai (Scientist)
Moderna
- Dr. Monica Guan (Scientist)
Nalco ChampionX, An Ecolab Company
- Dr. Kaylie Young (Staff Scientist, Energy Services RD&E)
NanoString Technologies, Inc.
- Dr. James Storhoff (Senior Manager Diagnostic Test Development)
NeoGraf Solutions, LLC
- Dr. Robert Andy Reynolds III (President & CEO)
nLight
- Dr. Kyle Osberg (Process Engineering Manager)
NuMat Technologies
- Dr. William Morris (Senior Manager)
Orica
- Dr. Greg Mitchell (Senior Manager, Global Marketing)
Oligo Factory
- Adam Sanford (Director of Business Development)
Pfizer
- Dr. Andrew Prigodich (Senior Director, R&D Strategy)
- Nick Savalia (Scientist)
Pharmagnosis
- Dr. Resham Banga (Founder and Principal)
Pleno Inc.
- Dr. Jeffrey Brodin (Associate Director)
PPG Industries Inc
- Dr. Chad Shade (Senior Research Chemist)
- Dr. Daniel Clingerman (Senior Research Scientist)
- Dr. Alyssa Chinen (Group Leader-Energy Research)
- Dr. Jose Mendez-Arroyo (Materials Chemist)
Prenosis
- Dr. Sergey Rozhok (Lead Design Engineer)
Privitar
- Brian Herr (VP Product Management)
Quanterix
- Stacey Barnaby Ross (Senior Scientist)
Reyes Holdings
- Dr. Daniel Park (Senior Data Scientist)
Samsung Electronics
- Dr. Dong Woo Kim (Principal Engineer)
Sila Nanotechnologies
- Dr. Mohammad Shah Jamali (Lead Scientist)
SQT Biotech
- Dr. Clifton Shen (CTO & Chief Engineer)
Stepan Co
- Dr. Aaron Brown (Technical Director, Global Surfactants Innovation & Strategy)
- Dr. Michael Wiester (Senior Research Chemist)
Storj
- Dr. Bryan Mangelson (SVP Operation and Finance)
Takeda
- Dr. Dan Zheng (Senior Director for Oncology Business Development)
Tempus
- Dr. Jennifer Ferrer (Senior Manager of Life Science Alliances)
Tencent
- Dr. Andrew Sensi (Principal)
TERA-print
- Dr. Andrey Ivankin (Founder)
Tesla
- Dr. Jessie Ku (Senior Product Manager)
Tome Biosciences
- Dr. Wuliang Zhang (Scientist)
Trident Labs
- Dr. Matthew Rycenga (Lab Director)
Under Armour
- Dr. Gabriella Metraux (Innovation Program Manager)
Versum Materials
- Dr. Xiaobo Tom Shi (Lead Scientist)
Verve Therapeutics
- Dr. Pratik Randeria (Director, Process Development)
Vizgen
- Dr. Shuo Wan (Research Scientist)
Xeris Pharmaceuticals
- Dr. Adam Ponedal (Research Scientist)
ZEISS Microscopy
- Dr. William Briley (Application Scientist)
ZS Associate
- Dr. Liyushang Chou (Consultant)
Zurich Instruments
- Dr. Ed Kluender (Application Scientist)
Postdocs
Caltech
- Dr. Wenjie Zhou
Columbia University
- Dr. David xu
The Francis Crick Institute, Biodesign Laboratory, London
- Dr. Oliver Hayes
Harvard
- Dr. Xing Liao
MIT
- Dr. Pavlo Gordiichuk
- Dr. Ho Fung Cheng
Northwestern University
- Dr. Donghoon Shin
- Dr. EunBi Oh
Stanford University
- Dr. Andrea d’Aquino
- Dr. Yuanwei Li
University of California, Berkeley
- Dr. Kacper Skakuj
- Dr. Peter Winegar
- Dr. Liliang Huang
University of California, Irvine
- Dr. Zachary Urbach
University of California, San Francisco
- Dr. Lam-Kiu Fong
University of Chicago
- Dr. Kaitlin Landy
University of Washington, Seattle
- Dr. Shunzhi Wang
National Laboratories
- Dr. John Krebs (Principal Chemist)
Los Alamos National Laboratory
- Dr. Precious Cantu (Postdoctoral Fellow)
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
- Dr. Jingshan Du (Postdoctoral Fellow)
Other Academic
- Dr. Taegon Oh (Research Scientist)
- Dr. Abigail Lytton-Jean (Technical Director of the Nanotechnology Materials Lab)
Northwestern University
- Dr. Krishna Paranandi (Medical student)
Scripps Research Institute
- Dr. Mary Wang (Senior Director, Strategic Planning)
- Dr. Christine Laramy (Law student)
University of Colorado
- Dr. Suguna Narayan (Pathology Resident)
- Dr. Richard Piner (Research Associate)