Meet the Team

  • Dr. Ji-Young Kim

    Principal investigator

  • Dr. Myonghoo Hwang

    Postdoctoral Fellow

  • Punom Roy

    Graduate Student Assistant

    (Department of Physics)

  • Hyeongoo Jung

    Graduate Research Assistant

    (Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering)

    Fall 2024 - Current

  • Won-Ji Lee

    Dr. Won-Ji Lee

    Postdoctoral Fellow

  • Jade Nguyen

    Master Student Researcher

    (Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering)

    Spring 2024 - Current

URP Members

  • Abby Xiao

    Undergraduate Researcher

    (Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering)

    Spring 2024 - Current

  • Emma Midkiff

    Sub Group Leader

    Undergraduate Researcher

    (Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering)

    Spring 2024 - Current

  • Abby Spaniol

    Abby Spaniol

    Undergraduate Researcher

    (Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering)

    Summer 2024 - Current

  • Michelle Lian

    Undergraduate Researcher

    (Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering)

    Fall 2025 - Current

  • Mary Girardy

    Undergraduate Researcher

    (Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering)

    Fall 2025 - Current

Past URP Members

Justin Ng
Undergraduate Researcher(Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering)

Spring 2024 - Fall 2024

Hannah Nardini
Undergraduate Researcher (Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering)

Spring 2024 - Fall 2024

Joshua Kim
Undergraduate Researcher (Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering)

Spring 2024 - Fall 2024

Joey Smith
Undergraduate Researcher (Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering)

Spring 2024 - Fall 2024

Vivek Pandya
Undergraduate Researcher (Department of Biomedical Engineering)

Spring 2024 - Fall 2024

Brandon Lee
Undergraduate Researcher (Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering)

Spring 2024 - Fall 2024

Cara Nalbandian
Undergraduate Researcher (Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering)

Spring 2024 - Fall 2024

Virginia Tech(Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Master’s degree)

Nick Haytko
Undergraduate Researcher (Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering)

Spring 2024

Miranda Lee
Undergraduate Researcher (Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering)

Fall 2024

Sun Pharma

Sean Lim
Undergraduate Researcher (Department of Biomedical Engineering)

Fall 2024

Ben Sasso
Undergraduate Researcher (Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering)

Spring 2024 - Fall 2024

Janice Min
Undergraduate Researcher (Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering)

Summer 2024 - Spring 2025

Brian Siemienczuk
Undergraduate Researcher (Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering)

Spring 2024 - Spring 2025

Diar Murtovic
Undergraduate Researcher (Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering)

Spring 2025

Austin Yuan
Full Time Researcher (Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering)

Summer 2024 - Spring 2025