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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Roberto Paiella
2026 REU Project: Semiconductor nanofabrication process development for computational image sensors Professor Paiella’s research interests include plasmonics, nanophotonics, and metasurface-enhanced optoelectronics, terahertz photonics, and device physics and applications of semiconductor quantum structures and 2D materials. Previous REU/RET Projects Include: Manufacturing of Lens-Free Image Sensors for Ultrasmall Compound-Eye Cameras (REU, 2016) Manufacturing of Group-IV Semiconductor Nanomembranes […]
Jillian Goldfarb
Previous REU/RET Projects Include: Biorenewable Nanomaterials: Using Biomass as a Fuel Source and Nano-template (2015)
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 […]
Peggy Chern
Dr. Peggy Chern was a graduate student in the Dennis Lab. Previous REU/RET Projects include: Synthesis and Characterization of Thick-Shelled InP/ZnSe Quantum Dots (2015)
Thomas Stark
Dr. Thomas Stark was a graduate student in the David Bishop Lab. Previous REU/RET Projects include: Atomic Scale 3D Printing (2016) Atomic Scale 3D Printing (2015)
Studying Thermal Properties of Direct Air Capture Adsorbents with Hot Disk Instruments
Mentors Project Description Climate change is among the most critical challenges facing humanity today. Society’s infrastructure, agriculture, and health are threatened by global warming, which leads to floods, unprecedented weather patterns, and damaging natural disasters. No amount of emissions reductions alone will be able to reduce emissions enough to stop irreparable global warming. Thus, Direct […]
Christopher Chen
Dr. Christopher Chen is the principal investigator at the Tissue Microfabrication Lab. The lab’s projects include vascular, cardiac, and stem cell biology and engineering. Goals of the lab include building biomimetic tissues as experimental models and to direct tissue remodeling and regeneration through understanding how adhesive, mechanical and biochemical interactions drive cell and tissue function. Previous REU/RET Projects include: Developing Anchoring Methods to Generate and Mature […]