Former trainees (i.e. graduate students and postdocs) in faculty positions



1. [Postdoc] Yong Sheng Zhao, Professor, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academic of Sciences (NSF-C Outstanding Young Investigator awardee, Chemical Communication Lectureship)

2. [Postdoc] Franklin Kim, Associate Professor, Shanghai Tech University (previously a faculty member at Kyoto University, Japan)

3. [Postdoc] Rodolfo Cruz-Silva, Associate Professor, Shinshu University, Japan

4. [Postdoc] Vincent Tung, Associate Professor, King Abdullah University for Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia (previously at UC Merced, USA)

5. [Postdoc] Bo Hu, Professor, Xidian University

6. [Postdoc] Tae Hee Han, Associate Professor, Hanyang University, South Korea

7. [Postdoc] Kalyan Raidongia, Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, India

8. [Postdoc] Ying Tao, Associate Professor, Tianjin University

9. [Postdoc] Victor Hugo R. de Souza, Associate Professor, Federal University of Grande Dourado (UFGD), Brazil

10. [Postdoc] Yu-Cong Jiao, Professor, Donghua University

11. [Postdoc] Yige Zhou, Professor, Hunan University

12. [Postdoc] Jun Gao, Professor, Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocessing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

13. [PhD student] Jiayan Luo, Professor, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (Electrochemical Society Nanocarbons Young Investigator awardee)

14. [PhD student] Che-Ning Yeh, Assistant Professor, National Tsinghua University

15. [PhD student] Kevin Chiou, Assistant Professor, National Sun Yat-sen University

16. [Visiting graduate student] Jiao-Jing Shao, Professor, Guizhou University (youngest Full Professor in her university)

17. [Visiting graduate student] Sahin Coskun, Assistant Professor, Osmangazi University, Eskişehir, Turkey

18. [Visiting graduate student] Xiao-Jiao Zhu, Associate Professor, Anhui University

19. [MS student] Alvin T.L. Tan, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), Singapore



Former trainees in industry



[PhD student] Laura Cote, Senior Material and Process Engineer, Continental

[PhD student] Kwon Nam Sohn, Senior Manager, LG Chem

[PhD student] Jaemyung Kim, Materials Scientist, Merck

[MS student] Wendy Tsai, Process Integration Engineer, Headway Technologies

[PhD student] Alexander Smith, Senior Quality Engineer, GM Cruise

[PhD student] Deepti Krishnan, Process Engineer, Intel

[PhD student] Andrew Koltonow, Cardinal Intellectual Property

[PhD student] Lily Mao, Process Engineer, Intel

[PhD student] Xuan Dou, in financial industry

[Visiting PhD student] Chenlong Cui, in financial industry

[PhD student] Alane Lim, in Data analysis industry

[Research associate] Murat Kadir, Staff Scientist, Combe Incorporated



Selected former MS and BS trainees (  indicated those with a significant publication)



[B.S./M.S student], Ken Pradel (1st author publication, PhD from Georgia Tech)

Thesis title: Cross-flow Purification of Nanowires (2011)

[B.S./M.S student] Alvin L.T. Tan (1st author publication, PhD from MIT)

Thesis title: Imaging 2D Sheets by Fluorescence Quenching Microscopy (2012)

[MS student] Cheng Wei Lin (1st author publication, PhD from UCLA)

Research topic: Pencil-drawn strain gauges and chemiresistors on paper (2013)

[MS student] Wendy Tsai (co-authored a publication, in industry)

Research topic: 3D graphene oxide architectures from thin films

[MS student] Hao Wei (1st author publication, moved to UT Austin for PhD)

Research topic: Carbon based multifunctional coatings (2016)

[MS student] Lingye Zhou (1st author publication, moved to UT Austin for PhD)

Research topic: Graphene-based hair dyes (2017)

[MS student] Zhizhi Kong (1st author publication, moved to UC Berkeley for PhD)

Research topic: Fluorescence quenching microscopy (2018)

[Visiting MS student] Lars Klemeyer (1st author publication, returned to Hamburg University for PhD)

Research topic: Geometry-dependent chemical reaction in graphene oxide solids (2019)

[MS student] Chier Zhang (coauthored a manuscript, to be in Australia for PhD)

Research topic: Carbon nanotube/resin composites (2019)

[MS student] Yihan Liu (coauthored 2 publications, moved to Duke for PhD)

Research topic: Chemical modulation of respiratory droplets (2020)

[BS student] Philip E. Goins (coauthored 1 publication, PhD from Carnegie Mellon)

Research topic: Graphene oxide nanocolloids (2010)

[BS student] Zakaria Y. Al Balushi (coauthored 1 publication, PhD from PennState, currently Assistant Professor at UC Berkeley)

Research topic: Graphene oxide nanocolloids (2010)

[BS student] Yoo Joo Na (coauthored a publication, PhD from Gorgia Tech)

Research topic: Graphene capsules in oil (2012)

[BS student] Zhibo Zhao (1st author publication, PhD from MIT)

Research topic: Pencil draw circuits on paper (2013)

[BS student] Jesus M. Lopez Baltazar (moved to Cornell for PhD)

Research topic: Healing of graphene oxide structure by water (2018)

[BS student] Yakira Mirabito (winner of the top department award for Leadership, Scholarship and Service, an exchanged student at ETH Zurich in Switzerland, TU Munich in Germany, and currently at UC Berkeley for PhD)

Research topic: Electronic composite for monitoring athlete conditions (2019)

[BS student] Simona G. Fine (1st authored manuscript, currently an DAAD RISE intern in Germany)

Research topic: Self-charging textiles for air filtration and face masks (2021)






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