Alice White
With over 125 publications and 7 patents issued/pending, Alice White is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the IEEE Photonics Society, and the Optical Society of America. She is also conducting research as part of CELL-MET, a multi-institutional National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center in Cellular Metamaterials (EEC-1647837). CELL-MET aims to grow functional and […]
Daniel Lookadoo
2026 REU Project: Coming Soon StataDX aims to build the first point-of-care diagnostic platform for Neurology– a “liquid MRI for the brain.” The company’s technology supports multi-biomarker guided disease management strategies both in clinical settings and at home using a simple finger-prick blood sample. Previous REU/RET Projects Include: Advancing Early Alzheimer’s Detection with Biosensing (REU, 2025) […]
Ruifeng Hu
Ruifeng Hu is a graduate student in the Bifano Lab. Previous REU/RET Projects include: Breaking the Mold (2024) Making Heart Tissue Dance (2023) Scaffold Manufacturing for Heart Tissues (2022)
Francisco Sanchez
Francisco Sanchez is a graduate student in the Bifano Lab. Previous REU/RET Projects include: Blinking Heart Lights (2024) Imaging Gas Vesicle Dynamics (2023) High Throughput Screening of Cardiomyopathy in 3D Engineering Tissues (2023) Measuring Dynamic Stiffness of Engineered Cardiac Tissue (2022)
Sean Lubner
Professor Lubner specializes in nano-to-macro energy transport and conversion, and has worked on a variety of energy-related systems including biomedical devices, electrochemical and thermal energy storage systems, solid state energy conversion devices, machine learning models, and water desalination. Lubner works extensively with both industry and academia, and holds numerous joint patents and publications. Previous REU/RET […]
Savannah Schisler
Savanah Schisler is a graduate student in the Lubner Lab. Previous REU/RET Projects include: Studying Thermal Properties of Direct Air Capture Adsorbents with Hot Disk Instruments (2024)
Tommaso Ranzani
2026 REU Project: Coming Soon Professor Tommaso Ranzani leads the Morphable Biorobotics Lab whose focus is robotic technologies for medicine, surgery, rehabilitation, and exploration. Dr. Ranzani has extensive experience in the development of medical robots for Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS). He explored different technologies and developed a number of manufacturing paradigms to design and manufacture […]
Vi Vo
Vi Vo is a graduate student in the Morphable Biorobotics Lab. Previous REU/RET Projects include: User Interface for Electronic Control of a Biospired Soft Robot (2024)
Sheila Russo
2026 REU Project: Pneumatically Tunable Soft Optical 3DOF Contact Sensor for Force and Touch Detection Professor Sheila Russo’s Material Robotics Lab focuses on the design, mechanics, and manufacturing of novel multi-scale and multi-material biomedical robotic systems.background is at the intersection of biomedical robotics, soft robotics, advanced manufacturing, and advanced materials technologies. Her research focuses on […]
Chuanhua Duan
Previous REU/RET Projects Include: Developing a Nanofluidic Volatile Memory Cell (2022) Rapid Detection of Ultra-Low concentration of Nanoparticles using trapping-based Nanopore Sensing and Free-Flow Electrophoresis (2021) Nanofluidic Sensor for Clogging Monitoring (2019) High Permeable Graphene Oxide Membranes for Water Desalination and Purification (2017) Facile and Scalable Fabrication of PDMS-Glass Nanochannel Devices (2016) Exploring the Effect […]