Our People

We are from all over the world

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Lab Hangout - Summer 2024

At Santo Boulder - Left to Right: Xiaoyun, Funda, Meiou, Umar, Aaron, Logan, Nakul, Yu, Sen, Leyla, Sunwoo

Lab Hangout Hiking - Fall 2023

At Chautauqua Park - Front Left to Right: Sarah, Sen, Kefin, Umar, Meiou, Sunwoo; Back Left to Right: Xiaoyun, Lillian, Yinan, Mir, Nakul, Leyla, Yu, Funda, Kun

Lab Hangout Hiking - Spring 2022

At Eldorado - Left to Right: Kefin, Yu, Nakul, Meiou, Kun, Funda, Ian, Daniel

Lab Hangout Hiking - 2021

At Brainard Lake - Front Left to Right: Yinan, Sarah, Xiaoyun, Adam, Kieran, Funda, Sean, Meiou, Ze, Shyam; Back Left to Right: Kefin, Yu, Gazendra, Nakul, Ian

Lab Hangout Hiking - 2020

At Heil Valley Ranch - Left to Right: Gazendra, Yu, Kefin, Adam, Xiaoyun, Kun, Nakul

In the Lab - 2020

In the Lab, Left to Right: Adam, Yuki, Kefin, Yu, Tao, Gazendra, Nakul, Xiaoyun

Lab Hangout - Summer 2019

At Busaba, Left to Right: Gazendra, Yu, Nakul, Kefin, Kun, Adam, Xiaoyun, Yonghui

Principal Investigator

Xiaoyun Ding

Bruce S. Anderson Associate Professor
Paul M. Rady Department of Mechanical Engineering
Biomedical Engineering Program, Materials Science & Engineering Program
Faculty Council Member, BioFrontiers Institute

Research Interests:
Biomedical Devices and Microfluidics for Fast Diagnosis and Therapeutics, Intracellular Drug Delivery, Cell Mechanics, micro/nano Manipulation.

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Xiaoyun.Ding(a)Colorado.edu
Curriculum Vitae

Research Associate

Yu Gao

BS in Chemical Engineering
PhD in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

Research Interests:
Black Technology of Acoustic Microfluidics

Yu.Gao@colorado.edu
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Postdoctoral Associate

Graduate Students

Meiou Song

BS in Chemical Engineering
MS in Mechanical Engineering

Research Interests:
Protein charaterization, Blood diagnostics

Meiou.Song@colorado.edu
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Meiou Song

Funda Kus

MS in Engineering Physics 

Research Interests:
SAW sensors, Microfluidics, Lab-on-chip

Funda.Kus@colorado.edu
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Google Scholar

Funda Kus

Leyla Akh

BS in Chemical and Biological Engineering
MS in Biomedical Engineering

Leyla.Akh@colorado.edu
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Leyla Akh

Sunwoo Sohn

MS in Robotics Engineering

Research Interests:
Intracellular drug delivery

SunWoo.Sohn@colorado.edu
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Sunwoo Sohn

Sen Gao

BS in Physics
MS in Electrical Engineering

Research Interests:
Cell sensing, Technology of Acoustics Biofluidics

Sen.Gao@colorado.edu

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PhD and Postdoc positions available.

Please see more details in Open positions (https://www.colorado.edu/lab/bmmlab/open-positions).

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Undergraduate Students

High School Students

BMMLab Alumni

Former Postdocs

  • Dr. Yonghui Ding - 2018 – 2019 
    Assistant Professor (Research Track) at Northwestern University
  • Dr. Tao Yang - 02/2020 – 08/2020 
    Associate Professor at Southeast University

Former PhD Students

  • Dr. Nakul Sridhar - 2018 – 2024
    Initial position: Sr. Semiconductor Process Development Engineer at Raytheon
  • Dr. Apresio Kefin Fajrial - 2017 – 2023
    Initial position: Technology Development Engineering at Intel
  • Dr. Gazendra Shakya - 2017 – 2021  
    Initial position: Postdoc at ETH Zurich

Former Undergraduate Students

  • Aaron Russ - 2024
  • Logan Blair - 2024
  • Daniel Rivkin - 2021 – 2022
  • Adam Vega - 2020 – 2022
  • Yuki Wang- 2020
    Graduate student at University of Washington
  • Kun Liu - 2018 – 2019
    Graduate student at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  • Amanda Merrick - 2017 – 2018
  • Katie Simon - 2017 – 2018
  • Cameron Graves - 2017 – 2018
  • Faisal Almehaimid - 2017 – 2018
  • Caitlyn Hughes - 2017 – 2018

Former Highschool Students

  • Qing Qing He - 2019 – 2020
    Undergraduate student at University of California Berkeley