Principal Investigator
Associate Professor
Materials Science and Engineering Program, UCSD
Member, Institute of Engineering in Medicine, UCSD
Email: x2huang(AT)ucsd.edu, Telephone: +1.858.822.2155
POSITIONS AVAILABLE: for postdoctoral researchers and graduate students
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Lab Members
Post-Doctoral Researchers
Dr. Eric Chu
Ph.D. in Bioengineering, UCSD
Research: Microfluidics; Single-cell transcriptomics and genomics.
Graduate Students
Wenxu Zhang
B.S. in Physics, University of Science and Technology of China
Research: Single-molecule DNA and protein sequencing; Algorithms and deep machine learning; Computational modeling; Nanofabrication.
Norman Luong
M.S. in Bioengineering, UCSD; B.S. in Biomedical Engineering, UC Merced
Research: Microfluidics; single-cell transcriptomics and genomics; Micro and nanofabrication.
Sylvia Liang
B.S., Chemical Engineering, UCLA
Research: Single-molecule proteomics; computational modeling; algorithms and deep machine learning.
Alumni
Postdoctoral Researchers
Dr. Matthew T Walsh
Ph.D. in Bioengineering, UCSD
Research: Protein engineering; single-molecule DNA sequencing; fluorescence microscopy; microfluidics; single-cell transcriptomics; computational modeling;
Current position: Scientist/Engineer, NanoString Technologies
Dr. Youngjun Song
Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, UCSD
Research: microfluidics; micro and nano fabrication
Current position: Assistant Professor, Nano-Bioengineering, Incheon National University, Republic of Korea
Dr. Zhixia Liu
Ph.D. in chemical engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Research: Protein Engineering and Single-molecule DNA sequencing
Current position: Research Scientist, Scripps Research Institute
Dr. Eric Roller
Ph.D. in Bioengineering, UCSD
Research: Single-molecule fluorescence imaging; DNA sequencing; Instrumentation; Computational Modeling; Software development
Current position: Senior Software Engineer, Illumina
Dr. Kwang-seuk Ko
Ph.D. in Chemistry, Iowa State University
Research: Organic synthesis; DNA sequencing; microfacrication and surface chemistry.
Current position:
Dr. Nora Theilacker
Ph.D. in Biophysics, Karlsruhne Institute of Technology, Germany
Research: Proteomics; conjugation chemistry; multiplexed barcoding; imaging
Current position: Postdoctroal Researcher, Johns Hopkins University
Dr. Kui Han
Ph.D. in Physics, Peking (Beijing) University.
Research: Solid-state physics; micro and nano fabrication; DNA nanostructures; nanopores; computational modeling
Current position: Postdoctoral Researcher, Peking University, Beijing, China
Graduate Students
Wai Keung (Eric) Chu
Ph.D. Thesis: Microfluidic processors for accurate single-cell genome sequencing (PDF)
Current Position: Postdoctoral Researcher, UCSD
Alex P. Hsiao
Ph.D. Dissertation: Methods and devices for comprehensive molecular analysis of single cells (PDF)
Current Position: Engineer,
Hosuk Lee
Ph.D. Dissertation: Biomolecular Processing and Quantitative Localization of Single Cell Analysis (PDF)
Current Position: Engineer, Broadcom Inc.
Aric Joneja
Ph.D. Dissertation: Development of tools for the preparation of genomic libraries for next-generation sequencing (PDF)
Current Position: Senior Scientist/Engineer, Abbott
Nora Theilacker
Ph.D. Dissertation: Development of a particle-based method for multiplexed detection of proteins (Entwicklung eines partikelbasierten Verfahrens fur den parallelen Nachweis von Proteinen) (PDF)
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Johns Hopkins University
Eric Roller
Ph.D. Dissertation: Natural DNA sequencing by synthesis (PDF)
Current Position: Senior Software Engineer, Illumina
Kristopher D. Barbee
Ph.D. Dissertation: Methods and devices for fabricating and assembling DNA and protein arrays for high-throughput analyses (PDF)
Current Position:
Ying-Ja Chen
Ph.D. Dissertation: DNA sequencing by denaturation (PDF)
Current Position: Vice Director, Bioinformatics and Artificial Intelligence, ACT Genomics
Thomas Pisanic
Ph.D. Dissertation: Tailored magnetic nanoparticles for in vitro, in vivo and in situ magnetorelaxometry (PDF)
Current Position: Project Scientist, Johns Hopkins University
Guentak Lee
Ph.D. Thesis:
Current Position:
Robert Mifflin
Ph.D. Thesis:
Current Position: Free-Lane Consultant
Elbert Mai
M.S. in Bioengineering, UCSD
Current Position:
Erin McElfish
M.S. Thesis: Methods for parallel amplification of single DNA molecules (PDF)
Current Position:
Julianna Yeung
M. Eng. in Bioengineering, UCSD Current Position: Senior Manager @ Fresenius Medical Care Asia Pacific, Hong KongAnusha Mehta
M. Eng. in Bioengineering, UCSD Current Position:Victoria Win
M. Eng. in Bioengineering, UCSD Current Position: Research Associate at Edwards Life SciencesStaff Research Associates
Vivi Talstad
Staff Research Associate (SRA)
M.S., Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Research: Molecular biology; genomics
Current position: Head Engineer, Institute for Surgical Research, UiO/OUS, Norway.
Staff Research Associate (SRA)
Research: Chip-based PCR technologies; Microfluidics; Microfabrication; Instrumentation.
Current Position: Engineer, Illumina
Undergraduate and High School Students
Name Current Position
- Laurence Chen, Ph.D. student @ UCLA
- Ximian Chen, Ph.D. student @ UCLA
- Karoline Costa Almeida University of Brasilia, Brazil
- Quang Pham, Investment Associate at J. & W. Seligman & Co., Incorporated
- Ronnie Chen, MD student at UCSD
- Simpledeep Banapal MD student at Temple University School of Medicine
- Sze Yinn (Jessie) Wong, Ph.D. student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
- Victoria Win, Research Associate at Edwards Life Sciences
- Andy Koswara, Engineer, Purification Development, Biogen IDEC
- Jonathan Kuo, Ph.D. student at USC
- Claudia Lum,
- Amy Choi,
- Aydin Golabgir,
- Jonathan Huang,
- Julian Hernandez (UCSD Preuss High School)