Graduate Students

Graduate students

Bingyu Kuang

Education

  • B.S., Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota Twin-Cities, 2016
  • B.S., Chemistry, University of Minnesota Twin-Cities, 2016

Research Areas: Untargeted/Targeted Metabolomics, Transcriptomics, Amino Acid Metabolic Pathways

Office: Perry 307

Email: bingyu_kuang@student.uml.edu

Duc Hoang

Education:

  • B.S., Chemical Engineering, University of Minnesota Twin-Cities, 2017
  • B.S., Chemistry, University of Minnesota Twin-Cities, 2017

Research Areas: Genome Scale Modeling, Cell Culture Media Optimization

Office: Perry 307

Email: duc_hoang@student.uml.edu

Rich Marx

Education

  • B.S., Chemical  Engineering, Villanova University, 2007

Research Areas: Lyophilization, Drug Delivery Systems

Office: Perry 307

Email: richard_marx@student.uml.edu

Qiang Fu

Education

  • B.S., Biological Engineering, Hunan Agricultural University, 2011
  • M.S., Pharmaceutical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 2014

Research Areas: Gene Therapy, Bioprocessing

Office: Perry 307

Email: qiang_fu@student.uml.edu

Caitlin Morris

Education

  • B.S., Chemical Engineering, University of Massachussetts Lowell, 2017

Research Areas: Viral Vaccine Modeling, Metabolomics

Office: Perry 307

Email: caitlin_morris@student.uml.edu

Ashli Polanco

Education:

  • B.S., Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012

Research Areas: System Biology, Genomics

Office: Perry 307

Email: ashli_polanco@student.uml.edu

Zhao Wang

Education:

  •  B.A., Chemical Engineering, University of Cambridge, 2007
  • M.E., Chemical Engineering, University of Cambridge, 2009

Research Areas: Cell Culture, Bioreactor modeling

Office: Perry 307

Email: zhao_wang@student.uml.edu

YongSuk Kevin Lee 

Education:

  • B.S., Physiology, McGill University, 2010

Research Areas: Next Gene Sequencing, Adventitious Agent Detection

Office: Perry 307

Email: yongsuk_lee@student.uml.edu 

SoYoung Park

Education:

  • B.S., University of Wisconsin Madison, 2011

  • M.S., Seoul National University, 2014

Research Areas: Gene Therapy

Office: Perry 307

Email: soyoung_park@student.uml.edu 

George Liang

Education:

  • M.S.E., Chemical Engineering, University of Massachusetts Lowell, 2019

Research Areas: CQA  Modulation and Analytics for rAAV & mAb, Computational Modeling of CHO glycosylation 

Office: Perry 307

Email: george_liang@student.uml.edu

Jaeweon Lee

Education:

  • M.S.E., Chemical Engineering, University of Massachusetts Lowell, 2020

Research Areas: Continuous Biomanufacturing

Office: Perry 310

Email: jaeweon_lee@student.uml.edu

Yongdan Wang

Education:

  • B.S., Chemical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, 2020

Research Areas: Gene Therapy, Cell line Engineering and Media Optimization

Office: Perry 307

Email: yongdan_wang@student.uml.edu

Hung Tran

Education:

  • B.S., Chemical Engineering, University of Massachusetts Lowell, 2022

Research Areas: rAAV Production 

Office: Perry 307

Email: hung_tran1@student.uml.edu

Hourieh Ahi

Education:

  • B.S., Medical Laboratory Sciences
  • M.S., Medical Virology

Research Areas: Gene Therapy, Media Optimization

Office: Perry 307

Email: hourieh_ahi@student.uml.edu

Zahra Foroozanjahromi

Education:

  • B.S.,

Research Areas: Metabolic Flux Analysis (MFA), iPS Cell

Office: Perry 307

Email: zahra_foroozanjahromi@student.uml.edu

Kanika Goel

Education:

  • Master’s degree, Pharmaceutics and Drug Delivery, University of Mississippi, 2019

Research Areas: Modulation of Cellular Pathways for Enhanced AAV Production to improve viral titer & bioprocess efficiency; Metabolic engineering of mammalian cells using electrochemical probes as PAT Technology, Media Component Optimization for Enhanced Cell Growth and AAV Production

Office: Perry 207

Email: Kanika_Goel@uml.student.edu

Karna Shah

Education:

  • M.S., Biotechnology, Northwestern University

Research Areas: Cell Culture Process Optimization, Predictive Modeling, Hybrid Modeling, Omics Applications

Office: Perry 307 karna.shah@abbvie.com

Email: karna.shah@abbvie.com