Former Graduate Students - Ph.D

USC

  • 1979, Nagy Sabet M. Nossier

      • "On the Feedback Phenomenon and Noise Generation of an Impinging Jet"

      • Professor | Aerospace Engineering, San Diego State University

  • 1985, Fei-Bin Hsiao

      • "Small Scale Transition and Preferred Mode in an Initially Laminar Plane Jet"

      • Late Associate Dean | National Cheng Kung University

  • 1985, Shin-Hsing Chen

      • "The Unsteady Aerodyanmics of a Plunging Airfoil"

      • Senior Engineering Specialist | The Aerospace Corporation

  • 1985, Lein-Saing Huang

      • "Small Scale Transition in a Two-Dimensional Mixing Layer"

  • 1988, Chiang Shih

      • "Unsteady Aerodynamics of a Stationary Airfoil in a Periodically-varying Free Stream"

      • Professor and Chair | Mechanical Engineering Department, Florida State University

  • 1990, Yitshak Zohar

      • "Fine Scale Mixing in a Free Shear Layer"

      • Professor | Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, The University of Arizona

  • 1993, Thomas Robert Austin

      • "The Small-scale Topology of a 2:1 Aspect Ratio Elliptic Jet"

      • Counter Terrorism & CBRNE Countermeasures Programs | The Boeing Company

  • 1994, Judith Kathleen Foss

      • "Small Scale Turbulence in a Plane Mixing Layer"

  • 1998, Hank I-Hung Lin

      • "Vortex Breakdown Over Delta Wings in an Unsteady Free Stream"

      • Principal Engineer | Avery Dennison

UCLA

  • 1994 - Tzong-Shyng (Jeremy) Leu

      • "The Control of Two-dimensional Wakes/Mixing Layers Via Suction at the Trailing Edge of a Splitter Plate"

      • Professor | Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, National Cheng Kung University

  • 1995, Ming-Dar Gibson Chen

      • "Transition Processes in a Plane Wake"

      • President | UD Info Corp.

  • 1997, Wen Jung Li

      • "Microelectromechanical Systems on Contoured Substrates"

      • Chair Professor | Department of Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering, The City University of Hong Kong

  • 1997, Chung-Hsing Alex Hu

      • "Noise Generated by Rotor-stator Interactions"

  • 1998, Gwo-Bin "Vincent" Lee

      • "Control of a Delta-wing Aircraft by Micromachined Sensors and Actuators"

      • Professor | Department of Power Mechanical Engineering, National Tsing Hua University

  • 1998, Fan-Gang Kevin Tseng

      • "A Micro Droplet Injector System"

      • Professor | Department of Engineering and System Sciences, National Tsing Hua University

  • 1998, Hani Alexander

      • "Active Control of Dynamic Stall"

      • Managing Director | Alvarez & Marsal Corporate Performance Improvement, Los Angeles

  • 2000, John Dzung Hoang Mai

      • "Heat Convection in a Micro Impinging Jet System"

  • 2001, Jen-Jr Vincent Gau

      • "The Enzyme-based Electrochemical DNA Detector Chip using MEMS Technology"

      • Co-founder, CEO, President and CTO | GeneFluidics, Inc.

  • 2001, Yi-Kuen Lee

      • "Manipulations of Molecules by Microfluidics"

      • Associate Professor | Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Biomedical Engineering, HKUST

  • 2001, Tzung K. Hsiai

      • "MEMS Sensors to Characterize Shear Stress on Endothelial Cell Dynamics"

      • Professor | Department of Medicine and Bioengineering, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

  • 2002, Joanne Helene Deval

      • "Electrokinetic Sub-Micron Particle Manipulation for Micromixing in Bioreactors"

      • Deputy Chief Executive Officer | AIR LIQUIDE IT

  • 2002, Tza-Huei Jeff Wang

      • "Nano/Micro Technologies for Single-molecule Manipulation and Detection"

      • Professor | Mechanical Engineering, The Johns Hopkins University

  • 2003 - Umberto Ulmanella

    • "Molecular Effects on the Boundary Condition in Micro and Nano Fluidic Channels"

    • Product Manager | Life Technologies Corporation

  • 2003 - Steven Ho

      • "Unsteady Aerodynamics and Adaptive Flow Control of Micro Air Vehicles"

      • Director | Cost Estimating and Program Evaluation , National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)

  • 2004 - James Lew

      • "An Active Control System for the Turbulent Boundary Layers"

  • 2005 - Tony Jun Huang

      • "From Artificial Molecular Machines to Nanomechanical Devices"

      • Professor | Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Sciences, Duke University

  • 2005 - Pak Kin Wong

      • "Control of Cellular Signal Transduction Networks using a Stochastic Search Algorithm"

      • Professor | Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Surgery, The Pennsylvania State University

  • 2006 - Po-Hao Adam Huang

      • "The Micro Pulsed-Jet as a Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems Combustion Engine and Miniaturization Technologies for Aerospace Engineering"

      • Associate Professor | Mechanical Engineering, University of Arkansas

  • 2006 - Branden Brough

      • "Molecular Mechanics: The Integration of Synthetic and Natural Molecules into Nanomechanical Systems"

      • Deputy Director of Strategy and External Relations | Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  • 2006 - Arnaud Benahmed

      • "Band-gap Assisted Surface Plasmon Sensing"

      • Vice President | PIMCO

  • 2007 - Chien-Pin Sun

      • "Stochastic Search Algorithm in the Reactivation of Kaposi's Sarcoma-associated Herpesvirus (KSHV)"

      • Director | Promedian

  • 2007 - Winny Tan

      • "Functional Technology Integration: Biochemical Preparation and Analysis in Microsystems"

      • Partnerships Manager | IMEC

  • 2008 - Charlotte Ching-Han Kwong

      • "A Micro-deionizer for Dielectrophoretic Manipulation of Cells"

  • 2008 - Na Li

      • "A Therapeutic Nano Device Based on Molecualr Recognition-triggered Conformational Change"

      • Assistant Professor | Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Miami

  • 2008 - Eric David Dy

      • "Development of a Cytomic Force Transducer for Experimental Mechanobiology"

      • Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer | Bloomlife

  • 2008 - Daniel Ernest Garcia

      • "A Parametric Design Study of an Electrochemical Sensor"

      • Anesthesiology Resident | Montefiore Health System

  • 2009 - Tak Sing Wong

      • "Nanoscale Wetting and Its Implications to Macroscopic Surface Phenomena"

      • Assistant Professor | Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University

  • 2009 - Nan Li

      • "Lab-on-a-Chip Systems for Blood Cell Separation, Counting, and Characterization"

      • Project Manager | ACEA Biosciences, Inc.

  • 2009 - Hideaki Tsutsui

      • "Engineering Defined Embryonic Stem Cell Culture through Feedback System Control"

      • Assistant Professor | Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Riverside

  • 2009 - Ieong Wong

      • "Integrated Micro Devices for Single-Cell Microbiology Studies"

      • Vice President | Citi Bank

  • 2011 - Gauvain Haulot

      • "Optoelectronic Reconfigurable Microchannels"

      • Consultant | Boston Consulting Group

  • 2011 - Peter Bjorn Lillehoj

      • "Microfluidic Systems for Bioprocessing and Biodetection"

      • Assistant Professor | Department of Mechanical Engineering, Michigan State University

  • 2011 - Leyla Sabet

      • "Biomolecular Sensing and its Application in Feedback System Control: Optimization of Biofuel Production from Microalgae"

      • Senior Systems Engineer | Abbott Global Healthcare & Research

  • 2012 - Ting-Hsuan Cecil Chen

      • "Top-Down Engineering of Self-Organizing Cell Pattern Formation for Regenerative Medicine"

      • Assistant Professor| Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering, The City University of Hong Kong

  • 2012 - Xianting Ding

      • "Identification of Disease Mechanism Using an Engineering Top-Down Approach"

      • Executive Deputy Director | Institute of Personalized Medicine (IPM), Shanghai Jiao Tong University

  • 2014 - Hann Wang

      • "Predictive Optimization of Pharmeceutical Efficacy

      • Principal Scientist | Roche Sequencing, Santa Clara

  • 2014 - Wei Yu

      • "High biofuel production of Botryococcus braunii using optimized cultivation strategies"

      • Founder and President | Lyxia Corporation

  • 2014- Yitong Zhao

      • "Optimizing Biodiesel Production of a Cell-Free System by Feedback System Control Scheme"

      • Assistant Professor| Mechanical Engineering, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

  • 2014 - Christopher Richard Folk

      • "Optimized Mixing in Microchannels with Integrated Microactuators"

      • Director Product Engineering | ViaCyte, Inc.

  • 2014 - Aleidy Marlene Silva Vite

      • "Feedback System Control: optimizing drug combinations for tuberculosis treatment"

      • Applications Scientist | Tecan Group, Ltd.

Former Graduate Students - M.S.

  • 1992 - Chris Leroy Pettit Jr.

    • Professor | United States Naval Academy

  • 1995 - John Dzung Hoang Mai

  • 1995 - Tam Thanh Nguyen

  • 1995 - Jack Chung Jai Shih

  • 1995 - Turan Coratekin

  • 1995 - Martin Mischler

  • 1996 - Hong-Tao Zhang

  • 1996 - Winn Wong

  • 1996 - Wayne P. Liu

  • 1996 - Paul Charles Kendall

  • 1996 - Alexander Kammerer

  • 1997 - James Lew

  • 1998 - Umberto Ulmanella

  • 1998 - Chen-Wei Edward Chiu

  • 1998 - Jen Jr. Vincent Gau

  • 2000 - Eric Mitchell Prophet

  • 2000 - Brian Allan Christensen

  • 2000 - Joanne Helene Deval

  • 2000 - Christopher Richard Folk

  • 2000 - Tza-Huei Jeff Wang

  • 2000 - Steven Ho

  • 2001 - Christopher Silva

  • 2001 - Guo-Hua Howard Feng

  • 2001 - Pak Kin Wong

  • 2002 - Branden Brough

  • 2002 - Ali Shalchi

  • 2002 - Che-Yang Michael Yang

  • 2003 - Bi-Dan Yu

  • 2003 - Po-Hao Adam Huang

  • 2004 - Christian Dorrer

  • 2004 - Shannon Huang

  • 2004 - Chien-Pin Sun

  • 2004 - Winny Tan

  • 2005 - Arnaud Benahmed

  • 2005 - Samson Phan

  • 2005 - Daniel Ernest Garcia

  • 2005 - Charlotte Ching Han Kwong

  • 2006 - Leyla Sabet

  • 2006 - Satyashree Srinkanth

  • 2007 - Gauvain Haulot

  • 2008 - Peter Bjorn Lillehoj

  • 2008 - Michael James Fields

  • 2008 - David Wang

  • 2009 - Christopher Marc Adams

  • 2010 - Xianting Ding

  • 2011 - Aleidy Marlene Silva Vite

  • 2011 - Omar Adam Zarka

  • 2011 - Brian Michael De Vitis

  • 2011 - Cheng Kuang Shaw

  • 2011 - Mark Thomas Westfall

  • 2011 - Joel Chung-Yin Wong

Visiting Researchers

  • Alberer, Daniel | Johannes Kepler Universität, Linz, Austria

  • Ameli, Maria G | Politecnico di Milano

  • Professor Wamadeva Balachandran | Brunel University, England

  • Bauer, Walter | Johannes Kepler Universität, Linz, Austria

  • Berger, Achim | Johannes Kepler Universität, Linz, Austria

  • Black, Sarah

  • Brandstetter, Michael | Johannes Kepler Universität, Linz, Austria

  • Bruckner, Martin | Johannes Kepler Universität, Linz, Austria

  • Chao, Chien-Hsiang | National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan

  • Chen, Che-Yang (Michael) | Law Office of Michael Chen

  • Chen, Shin-Hsing | The Aerospace Corporation

  • Chen, Shu-Hui | National Cheng Kung University

  • Chen, Yih-far (Alfa) | U-Tech Media Corporation

  • Chiu, C-W Edward | Asia Pacific Microsystems, Inc.

  • Cho, Jae Soo | The Contents Company Inc.

  • Cho, Sung Kwon | University of Pittsburgh

  • Choi, Jin Seo | Samsung

  • Chun, Linda

  • Coratekin, Turan A. | RWTH Aachen

  • Cubaud, Thomas | Stony Brook University

  • Delporte, Sylvain

  • Didden, Norbert | Deceased

  • Doppelbauer, Clemens | Johannes -Kepler-Universitat Linz

  • Dorrer, Christian | IMTEK Freiburg, Germany

  • DuMontelle, Paul | University of Southern California

  • Feng, Howard | National Central University, Chung-li Taiwan

  • Feinberg, Steve | Raytheon Systems Engineering Department

  • Fields, Michael

  • Fortner, Thomas | Johannes -Kepler-Universitat Linz

  • Foss, Judith K. | NASA

  • Fu, W.J. | Harbin Aeronautical Institute, China

  • Garstenauer, Michael | Johannes -Kepler-Universitat Linz

  • Gursul, Ismet | University of Bath , United Kingdom

  • Gutmark, Effi | University of Cincinnati

  • Hackl, Benjamin | Johannes Kepler Universität Linz , Austria

  • Hertzberg, Jean | University of Colorado

  • Hirschmanner, Martin | Vienna University of Technology

  • Hoffelner, Johann | Johannes -Kepler-Universitat Linz

  • Hong, Winn | Alfred E. Mann Institute - USC

  • Huang, Jin-Biao | Texas Instrument

  • Huang, Lein-Saing | University of Southern California

  • Huang, Shannon | ASLAN Pharmaceuticals

  • Kammerer, Alexander | Carillion

  • Karan, Rainer | VOEST Industrieanlagenbau

  • Kendall, Paul Charles

  • Kimura, Motoaki | Nihon University , Japan

  • Klaffenbock, Martin | Johannes -Kepler-Universitat Linz

  • Kumar, A Senthil | National University of Singapore

  • Lafouasse, Benoit | CNRS , France

  • Lai, Joseph | UNSW@ADFA

  • Landahl, Marten T. | Deceased

  • Lam, Robert | Northwestern University

  • Lefkowitz, Roy | UC San Diego

  • Lee, Mario | Stanford University

  • Li, Huaxing | Northwestern Polytechnical University , China

  • Lin, James | University of California , Los Angeles

  • Lin, Adam | Baylor School of Medicine

  • Lin, Hank | Avery Dennison

  • Liu, Wayne P. | Core MicroSolutions

  • Lu, Dr. Weixing | UCLA Physics Department

  • Ma, Martin | University of California, Merced

  • Maier, Florian | Johannes -Kepler- Universitat Linz , Austria

  • Masselin, Michelle |

  • Masset, Sylvain | Nouvelle Formation d’Ingénieur en Optronique

  • Medina , Rebeca | University of Southern California

  • Mischler, Martin | Ecole Polytechnique Federal, Lausanne |

  • Mochizuki, Osamu | Hokkaido University , Japan

  • Nassef, Hany | Mycometric

  • Neulinger, Christian | Johannes -Kepler-Universitat Linz

  • Nguyen, Audrey

  • Nguyen, Tam Thanh

  • Nosseir, Nagy | San Diego State University

  • El-Masry, Osama Ahmed | Alexandris University, Egypt

  • Phan, Samson | Stanford University

  • Pettit, Chris | US Air Force

  • Professor Kimura, Moto | Nihon University , Japan

  • Prophet, Eric | Superconductor Technologies Inc.

  • Rabl (Hirnschrodt), Michael | Univerisity of Applied Sciences Upper Austria

  • Rauecker, Richard | Johannes Kepler Universität Linz , Austria

  • Rechner, Nick | Johannes Kepler Universität Linz , Austria

  • Saniei, Nader | Loyola Marymount University

  • Saunier, Fabrice | Ecole Polytechnique Federal, Lausanne |

  • Scheurer, Fabien | Ecole Polytechnique Federal, Lausanne |

  • Schreck, Stefan | MediMorph Solutions

  • Silva, Chris | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

  • Steineder, Peter | Johannes Kepler Universität Linz , Austria

  • Stroppa, Florent | Nouvelle Formation d’Ingénieur en Optronique

  • Subramanian, Srini | Notre Dame University

  • Sung , Han-Jin | Advanced Institute of Science & Tech , Korea

  • Suzuki, Hiroaki | Chuo University School of Science and Engineering

  • Tabeling, Patrick | Laboratoire de Physiqui Statisqui, France

  • Tung, Steve | University of Arkansas

  • Usui, Takane | Stanford University

  • Vosseler, Michael | University of Ulm – Germany

  • Wang, Hansheng | Beijing University, China

  • Wei, Fang | Beijing University, China

  • Wong, Margaret | Symantec

  • Wu, Mingming | Cornell University

  • Xavier, Pelet | Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

  • Yan, William | Zhejiang University

  • Yang, Joon Mo | Genoptix, Inc.

  • Yen, Ta-Chun | Beijing University, China

  • Yoshihiro, Nagaoka | Hitachi Ltd., Japan

  • Yue, Zhicao | Fuzhou University

  • Zehentleitner, Kurt | Johannes -Kepler-Universitat Linz

  • Zhang, Feng-Yuan | University of Tennessee

  • Zhang, Hon Tao | Cirrus Logic

  • Zhang, Maggie | University of California , Berkeley

  • Zhang, Y.Q. | Northwestern Technology University , China

  • Zhou, Ming de | University of Arizona