Chao Huang
PhD Candidate, MSE
My work is to explore the relationships of process-structure-performance of pharmaceutical molecules by vapor jet deposition. After work I like playing tennis and watching movies.

Binyu Wang
PhD Candidate, ChemE
My work is to improve performance and lifetime of organic light emitting devices (OLEDs) by introducing corrugated substrates. I’m a Chemical engineering but doing electrical engineering work. Usually I work from 9 - 6

Eva Pontrelli
PhD Candidate, Applied Physics
My work is under the pharmaceutical manufacturing umbrella with a focus on apparatus design for process control and scale-up (basically: how do we make the thing do what we want). I work at random hours, love quick benchtop experiments and occasional math, don't love anything that involves measuring liquids or writing. Outside the lab, I rock climb, woodwork, and take care of my plants.

Jae Wan Lee
PhD Candidate, ChemE
As another PhD student under the pharmaceutical umbrella, I have been focusing on utilizing non-planar substrates with organic vapor jet printed materials. From integrating biodegradable polymers into organic vapor jet printed pharmaceutical ingredients to designing drug eluting devices, I have been more focused on the applications organic vapor jet printing can be used for. In my free time, I enjoy watching and playing soccer (go Arsenal).

Katie Wei
Dental Student, School of Dentistry
I'm working on creating platforms to culture cells in vitro that will mimic the forces in the cells experience in vivo (eg. how to mimic the forces caused by regular breathing). Outside of the lab I love traveling, crafting, and baking!

Yash Dadeech
Masters Student, MSE
I am working on photonic fibers that can work as barcodes for textile labeling. In other words, we can encode certain information into these fibers that can be read only under light having a certain wavelength range. Besides research I play badminton, read mystery novels and like to sing as well!

Janice Huang
Undergraduate, MSE
I’m an undergrad in materials science, and my current project involves making orodispersible films and testing them with dissolutions. I think high school me would be elated to know I get to mix polymers with drugs and work with such cool people(no but really, I feel so lucky and will miss it when I graduate). In the lab, I enjoy doing experiments, making sure my nose is still working by smelling chemicals after forgetting which one I put in a beaker, leaving PET circles from my experiments everywhere, and blaming my own mistakes on the equipment. If you visit, I WILL make you smell the optics lab to see if you’re the 3rd person who can actually smell it. Outside of the lab, I enjoy making illustrations(I am minoring in art, and hope to illustrate children’s books someday), repeatedly dying in video games, and spending time with my friends.

Current Students

Brian Iezzi, PhD
Himself!
Pending
Alumni