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Dr. Valerie Soo
Ph.D.
Massey University (New Zealand)
2012
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Dr. Nityananda Chowdhury
Ph.D.
Osaka Prefecture University (Japan)
2010
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Dr. Fayin Zhu
Ph.D.
Wuhan Univeristy (China)
2014
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Dr. Venkata Giridhar Poosarla
Ph.D.
Indian Institute of Technology Madras (India)
2012
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Dr. Wenzhao Wang
Ph.D.
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Dr. Hsin-Yao Cheng
Ph.D.
National Chiao Tung University (Taiwan)
2010
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Dr. Devon Otani Osbourne
Ph.D.
Loma Linda University (United States)
2011
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Dr. Cecilia Quiroga
Ph.D.
University of Buenos Aires (Argentina)
2007
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Dr. Ying Hu
Ph.D.
Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics
2009
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Dr. Hazel O’Connor
Ph.D.
University College Cork
2011
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Dr. Xiaoxue Wang
Ph.D.
Texas A&M University
2006
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Dr. Mingming Pu
Ph.D.
Boston College
2009
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Dr. Yunho Lee
Ph.D.
Korea University
2010
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Dr. Akihiro Ueda
Ph.D. Nagoya University
2002
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Dr. Younghoon Kim
Ph.D. Korea University 2007
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Dr. Uma Sagaram
Ph.D.
Texas A&M University
2007
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Dr. Sage R. Hiibel
Ph.D.
Colorado State University
2008
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Dr. Jintae Lee
Ph.D.
Rutgers University
2004
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Dr. Chang-Ping (Michael) Yu
Ph.D.
National Taiwan University
2001
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Dr. Xuesong Zhang
Ph.D.
The City University of New York
2006
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Dr. Rodolfo Garcia Contreras
Ph.D. National Autonomous University of Mexico UNAM 2005
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Dr. Toshinari Maeda
Ph.D.
Kyushu Institute of Technology
2006
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Dr. Moshe Herzberg
Ph.D.
Technion-Technical Institute of Israel
2003
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Dr. Youngsoon Um
Ph.D.
University of Maryland
2004
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Dr. Ayelet Fishman
Ph.D.
Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
2002
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Dr. Young Man Kwon
Ph.D.
Korea University
1999
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Dr. Dogan Ornek
Ph.D.
Cornell University
1998
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Dr. Keith Canada
Ph.D.
Louisiana State University
1998
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Dr. Hojea Shim
Ph.D.
Ohio State University
1997
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Dr. Sadhana Chauhan
Ph.D.
Indian Institute of Technology
1996
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Dr. Kang Ryu
Ph.D.
Hanyang University
2002
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Dr. Karna Prasanthi
Ph.D.
Central Food Technology Research Institute
2001
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Dr. Sajja Hari Krishna
Ph.D.
Central Food Technology Research Institute
2001
Former Postdoctoral Researchers not pictured
- Dr. Evgeny Gak: Ph.D., Cornell University, 1997
- Dr. Ik-Sung Ahn: Ph.D., Institute of Genetics and Selection of Industrial Microorganisms, 1995