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Former Members

Former Postdocs and Graduate Students
with Tenure-Track Academic Appointments (Bailey-ites)

Jun-Seob Kim

Dr. Jun-Seob Kim

Ph.D. Sungkyunkwan University (South Korea) 2013.
Currently Assistant Professor in the Department of Nano-Bioengineering, Incheon National University, 2021.

Sooyeon Song

Dr. Sooyeon Song

Ph.D. Chonnam National University (South Korea) 2016.
Currently Assistant Professor in the Department of Animal Science, Jeonbuk National University, 2020.

Ryota Yamasaki

Dr. Ryota Yamasaki

Ph.D. Kyushu Institute of Technology (Japan) 2016.
Currently Assistant Professor in the Department of Infections and Molecular Biology, Kyushu Dental University, 2019.

Sage Hiibel

Dr. Sage R. Hiibel

Ph.D., Colorado State University, 2008.
Currently Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering at the University of Nevada, Reno, 2016.

Dr. Venkata Giridhar Poosarla

Ph.D., Indian Institute of Technology Madras (India), 2012.
Currently Assistant Professor in the Department of Microbiology and Food Science and Technology at Gitam University, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India, 2017.

Seok Hoon Hong

Seok Hoon Hong

M.S., Seoul National University, 2007.
Currently Assistant Professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology.

Viviana Sanchez Torres

Viviana Sanchez Torres

B.S., Universidad Industrial de Santander, 2005.

Xiaoxue Wang

Dr. Xiaoxue Wang

Ph.D., Texas A&M University, 2006.
Currently Research Professor at South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (China).

Younghoon Kim

Dr. Younghoon Kim

2008-2009.
Ph.D., Korea University, 2007.

Rodolfo Garcia Contreras

Dr. Rodolfo Garcia Contreras

2006-2008.
Ph.D., National Autonomous University of Mexico UNAM, 2005.
Currently Associate Professor in the National Cardiology Institute (Mexico).

Akihiro Ueda

Dr. Akihiro Ueda

2006-2010.
Ph.D., Nagoya University, 2002.
Currently Lecturer at Hiroshima University (Japan).

Chang-Ping Yu

Dr. Chang-Ping (Michael) Yu

2008.
Ph.D., National Taiwan University, 2001.
Currently Professor in Chinese Academy of Sciences (China).

Jintae Lee

Dr. Jintae Lee

2004-2009.
Ph.D., Rutgers University, 2004.
Currently Assistant Professor at Yeungnam University (Korea).


Photo of former postdoctoral scholar Moshe Herzberg.

Dr. Moshe Herzberg

2004-2005.
Ph.D., Technion-Technical Institute of Israel, 2003.
Currently Assistant Professor at Ben Gurion University of the Negev (Israel).

Gonul Vardar

Dr. Gonul Vardar

Ph.D., 2005.
Currently Assistant Professor at University of Hawaii.
B.S., Istanbul Technical University, 2000.

Toshinari Maeda

Dr. Toshinari Maeda

2006-2007.
Ph.D., Kyushu Institute of Technology, 2006.
Currently Assistant Professor at the Kyushu Institute of Technology (Japan).


Andres Fernando Gonzalez Barrios

Dr. Andres Fernando Gonzalez Barrios

Ph.D., 2007
Currently Assistant Professor at Universidad de los Andes, Colombia.

Thammajun Leungsakul

Dr. Thammajun Leungsakul

Ph.D., 2005
Currently Assistant Professor in Chemical Engineering Department at Sirindhorn International Institute of Technology, Thailand.

Ayelet Fishman

Dr. Ayelet Fishman

2002-2004.
Ph.D., Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, 2002.
Currently Assistant Professor at Technion-Israel Institute of Technol.


Dacheng Ren

Dr. Dacheng Ren

Ph.D., 2003.
Currently Assistant Professor at Syracuse University.
Formerly post-doctoral student at Cornell University with Prof. Kelvin Lee.
Prior degrees: B.S. Shanghai JiaoTong University 1996, M.S. Tianjin University 1999.

Hojea Shim

Dr. Hojea Shim

1999-2000, 2001, 2002. Ph.D., Environmental Science, 1997, The Ohio State University. Currently Associate Professor at the University of Macau (Hong Kong).

Arul Jayaraman

Dr. Arul Jayaraman

Ph.D., 1998.
Currently Assistant Professor at Texas A&M University.
B.S., Chem. Engr., Birla Institute of Technology and Science.
M.S., Chem. Engr., Tufts University.
Then was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Harvard University-Massachusetts General Hospital.


Deokjin Jahng

Dr. Deokjin Jahng

Ph.D., 1995.
Currently Professor of Environmental Engineering & Biotechnology, Myongji University, Korea.
B.S., Microbiol., Seoul National University.
M.S., Chem. Engr., Yonsei University.

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