D-line Alumni

Ruipeng Li

Fellowship by the Chinese Scholarship Council
Visiting graduate student at CHESS, summer 2007 - summer 2008
Projects:
- developing sample environments
- developing the use x-ray microbeams at D-line
- programming GUIs for data analysis and indexing
Ph. D. in Materials Science, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) '09

career:
Postdoc at KAUST Cornell Center and Materials Science Department at KAUST 2009-2013
Postdoc at CHESS 2013-2016
Staff Scientist at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 2017

Stephanie Milazzo

Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program at CLASSE
REU student, summer 2011:
Project: Exploring deposition methods of aromatic molecules on glass substrates
B. A. in Physics, Rhodes College 2012

career: science teacher at a Memphis inner city high school
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Masters of Engineering Program at the Cornell School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

George Guo

Independent study: a high-current analog temperature controller for Peltier heaters
Master of Engineering Mai '14
Temporary Technician June-September 2014: design and development of a knife coater
and slot-die coaters for use at D1

career: Engineer at Brady Corporation, Milwaukee, MI

Vincent Rosa

MEng Design Project: design a solvent vapor control system
Independent Study: build a solvent vapor control system
CHESS student June-December 2014: Labview programming for temperature controllers and slot-die coating
Master of Engineering December '14

career: Engineer at SciTec Corporation, Princeton, NJ

Patrick Dorion

MEng Design project: monitoring the adsorption of nanoparticles on functionalized surfaces using a quartz crystal microbalance (QCM-D)
Independent Study: adsorption of gold nanoparticles with DNA ligands as a function of salt concentration
Masters of Engineering December '14

career: Production Engineer at Infineum, Linden, NJ
then Engineer at Mondelez R&D Group

Matt Chang

Independent study: adsorption of proteins (BSA, ConA) on APTES-functionalized
and succinylated surfaces using QCM-D
Masters of Engineering May '15

career: switched to the Masters of Science program at the Cornell School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
then Senior Lab Technician at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA.

Zhenyang Wang

Design Project: Programming and testing of the vapor pressure control system built be V. Rosa
Masters of Engineering May '15

career: Ink Application Engineer at Domino Printing Solutions Inc. in Shanghai, China
Application Engineer at Materialise (3D printing) in Shanghai, China

Bryan Louie

Design Project: Adsorption of streptavidin and horseradish peroxidase on biotin-functionalized surface
using QCM-D and comparison with fluorescence methods
Masters of Engineering May '15

career: engineer at Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Tarrytown NY

Siming Gao

Independent study: Synthesis and adsorption of iron oxide nanoparticles
Masters of Engineering May '16
Lab Manager at the CHESS Sample Environment Lab

career: Global Scholar at PreScouter
Chemical analyst at Seagate, Minnesota
Process engineer in the environmental technologies devision at Corning Inc., Corning, NY

Willy Halim

MEng Design Project: Coating of iron oxide nanoparticles
Masters of Engineering May '16
Masters of Science May '17

Teaching associate at Cornell Chemical Engineering.
Junior scientist for energy storage at Eenovate technology, Sunnyvale, CA.

Huawei Zhou

Design Project: Slot-die coating organic dyes and testing as OFETs
Masters of Engineering May '16
Lab Manager at the CHESS Sample Environment Lab

career: Global Scholar at PreScouter, Inc., Glastonbury, CT
Solutions Consultant at MEGVII, an AI company in Beijing

Aleksander Itskovich

MEng Design Project: Turbulent jet mixer for the study of fast anion exchange reactions of nanoparticles

career: CESR Operator and MEng student of Chemical Engineering, now switched to Computer Engineering

Thomas Derrien

CHESS Visiting Scientist and Lab Manager at the CHESS Sample Environment Lab
Project: Multilayers of single-stranded DNA-coated gold nanoparticles

career: postdoc at Diamond Light Source, UK

Sarah Chen

Design Project: Adsorption of PbS nanoparticles on functionalized surfaces.
Masters of Engineering May '18

Li-Wei Lo

Design Project: Solvent vapor annealing studies of novel block copolymers.
Masters of Engineering May'18

career: accepted into the graduate program at Washington University St. Louis