Alumni
Cui Lab alumni have gone on to pursue careers in academia, industry, national labs, and even outside of research science, all around the world.
Academia
Wei Zhang
Associate Professor, PI, Department of Biology, Shenzhen University of Advanced Technology & Chinese Academy of Sciences
Postdoctoral Fellow, 2018-2026
Nano-Bio Interface
Yang Yang
Assistant Professor, School of Medicine, Southern University of Science and Technology
Postdoctoral Fellow, 2018-2025
Nano-Bio Interface
Viktoryia Shautsova
Assistant Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Central Florida
Postdoctoral Fellow, 2019-2025
Bioelectronics
Xiao Yang
Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University
Postdoctoral Fellow, 2020-2025
Bioelectronics
Chih-Hao Lu
Postdoctoral fellow with Bo Huang, University of California, San Francisco
PhD Student, 2018-2024
Nano-Bio Interface
Csaba Forró
Group leader, CZ Biohub Chicago
Postdoctoral Fellow, 2019-2024
Bioelectronics
Judith Martinez
Graduate students, Department of Neuroscience, University of Connecticut
Postbac Researcher, 2023-2024
Nano-Bio Interface
Yuecheng (Peter) Zhou
Assistant Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Postdoctoral Fellow, 2019-2024
Optical Electrophysiology
Tomasz Zaluska
Graduate students, Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University
Visiting Scholar, 2022-2024
Bioelectronics
Tommy Li
Postdoctoral fellow with Helen Bateup, University of California, Berkeley
PhD Student, 2015-2021
Nano-Bio Interface/Bioelectronics
Zeinab Jahed
Assistant Professor, Department of Nanoengineering and Bioengineering (Affiliate), University of California, San Diego
Postdoctoral Fellow, 2018-2020
Nano-Bio Interface/Bioelectronics
Xiao Li
Professor, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China
Postdoctoral Fellow, 2016-2020
Nano-Bio Interface
Felix Alfonso
Postdoctoral Fellow with Peng Chen, Cornell University
PhD Student, 2013-2019
Optical Electrophysiology
Lasse Hyldgaard Klausen
Researcher at iNANO, Aarhus University, Denmark
Postdoctoral Fellow, 2017-2019
Nano-Bio Interface
Luke Kaplan
Postdoctoral Fellow with Chenghua Gu, Harvard Medical School
PhD Student, 2012-2017
Axonal Transport
Liting Duan
Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR
PhD Student, 2011-2016
Postdoctoral Fellow, 2016-2017
Optobiology
Qunxiang Ong
Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, A*STAR, Singapore
PhD Student, 2013-2017
Optobiology
Wenting Zhao
Assistant Professor, School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Postdoctoral Fellow, 2010-2017
Nano-Bio Interface
Francesca Santoro
Professor, RWTH Aachen University and Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany
Postdoctoral Fellow, 2014-2017
Nano-Bio Interface
Lindsey Hanson
Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, Trinity College
PhD Student, 2009-2014
Nano-Bio Interface
Kai Zhang
Associate Professor of Biophysics & Quantitative Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Postdoctoral Fellow, 2009-2014
Optobiology
Yasuko Osakada
Associate Professor, Institute for Advanced Co-creation studies and Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research (ISIR), Osaka University, Japan
Postdoctoral Fellow, 2009-2013
Axonal Transport
Chong Xie
Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering and Neuroengineering, Rice University
PhD Student, 2008-2011
Nano-Bio Interface
Industry
Ching-Ting Tsai
Principal Engineer, TSMC
PhD Student, 2018-2024; Postdoctoral Fellow, 2024
Bioelectronics
Melissa Nakamoto
Technical Advisor, Bozicevic, Field & Francis LLP
PhD Student, 2018-2023
Nano-Bio Interface
Aofei Liu
Lead Data Scientist, Insitro
PhD Student, 2017-2023
Optobiology
Taylor Jones IV
Scientist II, International Flavors and Fragrances
PhD Student, 2017-2023
Optobiology
Allister McGuire
Chemist, Adecco @ Verily Life Sciences
PhD Student, 2012-2018
Nano-Bio Interface/Bioelectronics
Hsin-Ya Lou
Data Scientist, Adobe
PhD Student, 2012-2018
Nano-Bio Interface
Eric Wang
Co-Founder, Archon
MS Student, 2017-2018
Optobiology
Praveen Chowdary
Senior Scientist at Quantapore, Inc.
Postdoctoral Fellow, 2010-2016
Axonal Transport
Shunling Guo
Scientist at Confometrx
Postdoctoral Fellow, 2013-2016
Optobiology
Other Fields
Suguru Ueno
Venture Capitalist/Principal, JAFCO
Joint Visiting Scholar (with Michael Lin Lab), 2023-2025
Nano-Bio Interface
Jen Hope
Research Communities Manager, Stanford University
PhD Student, 2016-2021
Optobiology
Daphne Che
Senior Associate, Montage Ventures
PhD Student, 2010-2015
Optobiology
Carter Lin
Data Scientist, Stripe
PhD Student, 2009-2014
Nano-Bio Interface
Wenjun Xie
Associate, McKinsey & Company
PhD Student, 2009-2014
Axonal Transport
Harsha Mudrakola
Medical Resident, Baylor College of Medicine
MS Student, 2008-2010
Axonal Transport
Past Visiting Undergraduate Scholar
Chun-Hao Hwu, Master Student, France. (2024 summer)
Charlotte Moraldo, Master Student, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Selene De Martino, PhD Student with Francesca Santoro, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Naples, Italy
Past Undergraduate and High School Students
Victoria Tuffour (2024)
Vincent Chim (2021-2023)
Jennifer Wang (2021-2023)
Ghawayne Calvin (2019-2021)
Clare Phelps (2019)
Vamsi Varanasi(2018-2019)
Victor Acero (2016)
Alina Ying (2016)
Chase Bartholomew Navellier (2015)
Ruyan Zhang (2015)
Eleanor Collier (2014)
Cody Zeng (2014)
Jasmine Deng (2014)
Connie Zeng (2013-2014)
Dara Bobb-Semple (2013)
Comfrey McCarthy (2013)
Pooja Varman (2013)
Kai Xiao (2012)
Paige Solomon (2012)
Janina Motter (2011-2012)
Yousef Fararjeh (2012)
Lidia Arenas (2010)
Benz Chaijarasphong (2009-2010)
