Principal Investigator

Shu Jia, Ph.D.  (CV - short version)

Associate Professor, Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, GT/Emory              

Faculty member: BioEngineering Program, Petit Institute for Bioengineering & Bioscience (IBB), Institute for Electronics and Nanotechnology (IEN), Winship Cancer Institute  

Editorial Board: Communications Physics 

Office: Whitaker 2112  ||  Lab: Whitaker 2219, 2220, 2221, 2222 

Phone: 404.894.0290 

Email: shu.jia AT gatech.edu

Business Administrator: Sheyil Taylor, sheyil.taylor AT bme.gatech.edu, 404.385.1155, Whitaker 2104

Postdoctoral Associates

Dingding Han, Ph.D. (webpage)

M.S. in Fluid Mechanics, University of Science and Technology of China

Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University (with Dr. Ardekani)

Office: UAW 2221

Email: dhan314@gatech.edu

Xuanwen Hua, Ph.D. (webpage)          

B.S. in Biophysics, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC)

Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University

UAW 2219

Email: x.hua AT gatech.edu

Petit Scholar Mentor, 2019

Graduate Students

Kidan Tadesse (webpage)

B.S. in Biomedical Engineering, Physics Minor, University of Arkansas 

Bioengineering PhD Program, Department of Biomedical Engineering

UAW 2219  

Email: ktadesse3 AT gatech.edu 

Petit Scholar Mentor, 2022 

Suddath Award Honorable Mention, 2024

Keyi Han (webpage)

B.S. in Biomedical Engineering, Double Minor in Chemistry and Electrical Engineering, Boston University   

Biomedical Engineering PhD Program

UAW 2219  

Email: khan300 AT gatech.edu 

Corey Zheng (webpage)

B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Minor in Computing and Intelligence, Georgia Institute of Technology   

Biomedical Engineering PhD Program

UAW 2219  

Email: czheng45 AT gatech.edu 

President's Fellowship, GT 

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

Kyungduck Yoon (webpage)

B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Hanyang University, Korea   

M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota

Bioengineering PhD Program, Department of Mechanical Engineering

UAW 2219  

Email: leo.k.yoon AT gatech.edu 

Nels Nelson Memorial Fellowship

Zhi Ling (webpage)

B.S. & M.S. in Biomedical Engineering, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China

Bioengineering PhD Program, Department of Mechanical Engineering

UAW 2219  

Email: zling41 AT gatech.edu

National College Chinese Chess Championship 

Emil Wolf Best Paper Award, OPTICA (Optical Society of America), 2023

Zijun Gao (webpage)

B.S. in Materials and Nanosciences, University of Waterloo, Canada

M.S. in Materials Science and Engineering, University of Washington

Bioengineering PhD Program, Department of Materials Science and Engineering

UAW 2219  

Email: zgao326 AT gatech.edu

Emil Wolf Best Paper Award, OPTICA (Optical Society of America), 2023 

Xinzhu Xu (webpage)

Department of Biomedical Engineering, Peking University

GT/Emory/PKU Biomedical Engineering Ph.D. Program (co-advisor: Peng Xi, Peking University) 

Email: xuxinzhu AT pku.edu.cn

Shunan Wu (webpage)

Department of Biomedical Engineering, Peking University

GT/Emory/PKU Biomedical Engineering Ph.D. Program (co-advisor: Xunbin Wei, Peking University) 

UAW 2221  

Email: swu408 AT gatech.edu

GT/Emory/PKU BMEJ Fellowship 

Peng Chen (webpage)  

B.S. in Physics, Optoelectronics, Energy, Soochow University

M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, University of Hong Kong

Bioengineering PhD Program, Department of Biomedical Engineering

UAW 2219

Email: pchen406 AT gatech.edu 

Yan Huang (webpage)

B.S. in Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Tech / Emory   

Biomedical Engineering PhD Program

UAW 2221  

Email: yhuang711 AT gatech.edu 

Undergraduate Students

Adaimoabasi Ruth Udo (webpage)

Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Tech - Emory

UAW 2221  

Email: audo3 AT gatech.edu 

Amy Wang (webpage)

Material Science and Engineering, Georgia Tech 

UAW 2221  

Email: xwang3048 AT gatech.edu  

PURA 2023

Tianrui Qi (Eric) (webpage)

Computer Science, Georgia Tech 

UAW 2221  

Email: tqi36 AT gatech.edu  


Alumni

Former Postdoctoral Associates and Scholars

Biagio Mandracchia (2022), now RAMÓN Y CAJAL Professor at University de Valladolid 

Changliang Guo (2019), now Associate Investigator at Peking University

Abhijit Marar (2021), now at TOPTICA Photonics 

Haoyu Li (2017), now Professor at Harbin Institute of Technology

Jian Wang (2017), now Professor at Harbin Institute of Technology

Bin Yu (2018), now Professor at Shenzhen University

Former Graduate Students

Bryce Schroeder (MD/PhD, 2018), now Pediatric Gastroenterologist at SUNY Downstate Medical Center / Kings County Hospital

Jeonghwan (Dylan) Son (PhD, 2023), now Strategy Consultant at Siemens

Xuanwen Hua (PhD, 2023), now Postdoctoral Fellow at GT/Emory

Wenhao Liu (PhD, 2024), now academic in China    

Nikita Yadunath (MS, 2017), now Senior Engineer at Dexcom

Lipi Shah (MS, 2020), now Engineer at SpaceX

Tara Urner (NSF Graduate Research Fellow, 2018-20), now at Emory University 

Oluwatofunmi (Tofunmi) Sodimu (MS, 2023), now College of Computing, Georgia Tech 

Former Undergraduate Students

Taehyoung Kim (2017), now medical imaging engineer at Samsung 

Jimmy George (2018), now MD student at the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX

Milan Gunasekera (2018), now Data Scientist at Bristol Myers Squibb 

Sravan Munagavalasa (2018), now Ph.D. student at University of Chicago

Jacqueline Zhu (2019), Petit Scholar, now with Janssen Pharmaceuticals

Haoyu Xu (2019), now Ph.D. student at Georgia Tech 

Suraj Rajendran (2021), now Ph.D. student at Cornell 

Stella Yang (2021), now research staff at Stanford University 

Benjamin Lapid (2021), now MD student at Medical College of Georgia 

Andrew Inman (2022), now Systems/Robotics R&D at Johnson & Johnson 

Qingyu Chen (2023), now Ph.D. student at Johns Hopkins University  

Amy Wang (2024), now Ph.D. student at Northwestern University