Meet the Zia Research Group
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Roseanna Zia
Associate Dean for Research, Dave Wollersheim Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
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Past Postdoctoral Associates
- Dr. Jae Hwan Jeong, currently a postdoctoral associate at Cornell University
- Dr. Monica E. A. Zakhari, currently Assistant Professor at Eindhoven University of Technology
- Dr. Nicholas J. Hoh, currently Senior Data Scientist at Intuit
- Dr. Poornima Padmanabhan, currently Assistant Professor at Rochester Institute of Technology
Past Graduate Students
- Dr. Jen Hofmann, Ph.D. Stanford University 2023. Currently a Sr. Scientist at Prescient / Genentech
- Dr. Alp M. Sunol, Ph.D. Stanford University 2023. Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Harvard University
- Dr. Akshay J. Maheshwari, currently in medical school at Stanford University
- Dr. J. Galen Wang, currently a Research Scientist at University of Missouri
- Dr. Derek E. Huang, currently a postdoctoral scholar at the National Institute of Standards and Technology
- Dr. Benjamin E. Dolata, currently a postdoctoral scholar at the National Institute of Standards and Technology
- Dr. Lilian C. Johnson, currently a postdoctoral scholar at the National Institute of Standards and Technology
- Dr. Christian Aponte-Rivera, currently a postdoctoral scholar at Duke University
- Dr. Henry Chu, currently Assistant Professor at the University of Florida
- Dr. Benjamin Landrum, currently at Beeswax
- Dr. Ritesh P. Mohanty, currently a Senior Scientist at Corning
- Dr. Yu Su, currently a Senior Scientist at Google