Ahmet Akosman

Dr. Ahmet Akosman was a graduate student in the Ultrafast Optics Laboratory. Previous REU/RET Projects include: Patterning Graphene with an Ultrafast Laser (2017)

Thomas Bifano

Dr. Bifano directs the Boston University Photonics Center (BUPC), a core facility and academic center of excellence comprised of forty-nine faculty members from eight academic departments and sixteen staff staff members. He leads BUPC programs for education, scholarly research and development of advanced photonics device prototypes for commercial and military applications. His research focuses on design, […]

James Bird

The research interests of James Bird include fluid dynamics and its application to many fields including environment, healthcare, energy, and forensics. In 2022, Dr. Bird and Garam Lee mentored Mark Greer (RET) and Jack Verich (REU). Their project was titled How Do Micro and Nanoparticles Deposit on a Surface Following Oblique Impact and a Drop Drying? Learn more […]

David Bishop

In addition to a focus on low temperature physics, Dr. Bishop has a wide variety of research interests, including the study of cardiac tissue engineering, micro-electromechanical (MEMS) systems and nano-electromechanical systems (NEMS), the Casimir Effect, superconductivity and superfluidity, nanotechnology, and feedforward control theory algorithms. Previous REU/RET Projects Include: Coupled Oscillator Simulations (2023) Chip-scale Magnetocardiography (REM […]

Keith Brown

Dr. Brown primarily studies polymers and smart fluids in order to measure their useful properties, and the order in which they emerge, defining importance. Namely, he seeks to develop methods which increase the throughput of materials research using scanning probe lithography, autonomous experimentation, additive manufacturing, and combinatorial chemistry. Previous REU/RET Projects Include: Nanocombinatorial Electrochemistry for […]

Douglas Densmore

Previous REU/RET Projects Include: Microfabrication of Lab on a Chip Devices (2017)

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 […]

Helen Fawcett

Previous REU/RET Projects Include: IRIS Microchip Process Validation (2017) Evaluation of Automated Incubation of Viral Hemorrhagic Fever Virus (2016) Development of NGSS-MA Curriculum (2016)  

Ali Lashkaripour

Dr. Ali Lashkaripour was a graduate student in the Cidar Lab. Previous REU/RET Projects include: Microfabrication of Lab on a Chip Devices (2017)

Le Li

Dr. Le Li was a graduate student in the Nanometer Scale Engineering Lab (NEMS) Lab. Previous REU/RET Projects include: Mathematical Model for Liquid-Vapor Thermal Expansion Soft Actuators (2018) Patterned Enzymatic Growth of Materials (2017) Knudsen Transport in Atomically-Smooth Nanochannels (2015)