Principal Investigator

Dr. Guan received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Yale University in 2013 and did his postdoctoral training in Biomedical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University from 2013 to 2014. Dr. Guan’s research interests are in the multidisciplinary areas of micro- and nanotechnology, micro/nanofluidics, bioMEMS, lab-on-a-chip devices, and point-of-care devices. His research group focuses on developing micro and nanoscale devices as well as novel sensing principles for advanced medical diagnostics and testing. Through his work, Dr. Guan is contributing to the development of cutting-edge biomedical technologies that have the potential to revolutionize the way diseases are diagnosed and treated. In addition to his research activities, Dr. Guan is a Senior Member of IEEE, Member of BMES, and Member of the Biophysical Society. He has also served as the Associate Editor for Nanotechnology and Precision Engineering since 2019 and on the Editorial Board of Diagnostics since 2017. Dr. Guan is a frequent reviewer for more than 30 journals and Federal Funding Agencies such as NSF and NIH. Dr. Guan’s contributions to the field have been recognized with several awards and honors. He is a recipient of the HHMI International Research Fellowship and NSF CAREER award, among others.

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Postdoctoral Scholar

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 Graduate Students

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Alumni

Postdoctoral Scholars

1. Dr. Xiaodong He,  Feb 2019 – Jul 2020, Assistant Professor at Lanzhou University
2. Dr. Xiaonan Yang, Feb 2016- Jan 2017, Associate Professor at Zhengzhou University

Ph.D. Students

1. Reza Nouri, Dec 2022, Thesis: Solid-state nanopore CRISPR-assisted diagnostic systems toward digital nucleic acid testing | First Job: Nationwide Children’s Hospital | Linkedin
2. Zifan Tang,  May 2022, Thesis: Digital solid-state nanopore fabrication and sensing towards integrated nucleic acid testing | First Job: Illumina Inc | Linkedin
3. Gihoon Choi, May 2020, Thesis: Microfluidic molecular and cellular detection of malaria Towards elimination | First Job: Sandia National Laboratories | Linkedin

Master Students

1. Fanming Liu, August 2022-March 2023
2. Wenxin Cao, August 2020– May 2021
3. Kamyar Akbari Roshan, August 2017 – May 2019
4. Qi Yan, August 2016 – December 2017
5. Nicholas Budzinski, August 2017 – May 2018

Undergraduate Students

1. Hueyue Pan, Aug 2022-March 2023
2. Naqiyah Peatiwala, Jan 2022- May 2022
3. Jiarui (Jerry) Cui, Aug 2020- May 2022
4. Dean DeRosa, Jan 2021- May 2022 (Schreyer Scholar)
   • Thesis: Design and Validation of a Low-Cost 8-Channel qRT-LAMP Test with Real-Time Result Readout
5. Xiayu Wang, October 2019 – March 2020
6. Erica Murphy, August 2018 – May 2019 (Schreyer Scholar)
   • Thesis: Microfluidic Time-Division Multiple Access Resistive Pulse Sensor For Particle Analysis
7. Tianyi Liu, January 2018 – May 2019 (CoE REU)
8. Swasti Mehra, August 2018 – Dec 2018 (CoE REU)
9. Fuchang Jiang, January 2018 – May 2018
10. Minkyu Lee, August 2017 – May 2018
11. Rui Xia, August 2017 – December 2017
12. Shiming Fan, August 2017 – December 2017
13. Tong Hu, August 2017 – December 2017
14. Theodore Prince, February 2016 – December 2017 (CoE REU)
15. Daniel Song, February 2016 – May 2017
16. Jeffery Miller, August 2015 – December 2015
17. John DiDonato, August 2015 – December 2015
18. Kristina Ly, January 2015 – December 2015 (CoE REU)
19. Parker Reusch, January 2015 – May 2015