Past Members
Doctorates Awarded
Dr. Ou Chen
Research Area: Semiconductor quantum dot doping
Dr. Chen received his Ph.D. at UF in 2010 and now is at MIT.
Dr. Tian Jiang
Tian was a doctoral student from China. He graduated 2019.
Dr. Jared Lynch
Research Area: Nanoparticle Synthetic Methodologies
Dr. Lynch earned his Ph.D. at UF in 2012 and now is at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab.
Dr. Yasutaka Nagaoka
Dr. Yasu Nagaoka earned his Ph.D. at UF in the summer of 2013.
Dr. Xirui Wang
Research Area: Nanoparticle Superassemblies
Xirui was a doctoral student from Beijing, China. She graduated 2018.
Dr. Huimeng Wu
Research Area: Semiconductor quantum dot doping
Dr. Wu received her Ph.D. at UF and now is at Los Alamos National Research Lab.
Past Post-Doctoral Researchers
Dr. Fei Cheng
Research Area: Super-Assemblies of Nanoparticles
Dr. Cheng is a former post-doc from Rutgers University (Newark); now in China.
Dr. Yasutaka Nagaoka
Research Area: Nanorod/Nanoparticle Intercalation; Nanostructure Crystal Conversion
Yasutaka is a post-doc (and previous grad student)from Keio University, Japan.
Dr. Xiaoshuang Shen
Research Area: Assembly of Nanoparticles
Dr. Shen came from the University of Science and Technology of China.
Dr. Tie Wang
Research Area: Nanorod Superassemblies
Dr. Wang is a former post-doc from China; now in Beijing.
Dr. Zhongliang Wang
Research Area: Cancer Treatment using Nanoparticles
Dr. Wang is a fromer post-doc from the Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. He went on to join Dr. Xiaoyuan Chen’s Laboratory of Molecular Imaging and Nanomedicine, NIBIB/NIH. His current research interests focus on the development of smart and biomimetic materials for diagnosis and therapy of various diseases.
Dr. Yongan Yang
Dr. Ruili Zhang
Dr. Ruili Zhang, a post-doc from China, worked on Cancer Treatment using Nanoparticles. She is married to Dr. Zhongliang Wang, who also worked in the group.
Dr. Jiaqi Zhuang
He is currently a professor in China.
Past Graduate Researchers
Yuan Liu
Research Area: Chiral Ligand Nanoparticle Incorporation
Yuan is a former doctoral student from Harbin Institute of Technology, China.
Yiruo Lu
Research Area: Quantum Dot Enhancement
Yiruo is a doctoral student with a B.S. in Material Chemistry from the University of Science and Technology of China located in Hefei, Anhui, China.
Jiahua Qiu
Jiahua is a doctoral student from China. He received his bachelors degree from the University of Science and Technology of China
Adhish Singh
Adhish joined the group in Spring 2016.
Marcus Tirado
Marcus switched to Dr. Nick Polfer’s group at UF in 2009.
Qiong (Bruce) Wu
Qiong switched to Dr. Weihong Tan’s group at UF in 2016.
Hongxiao Yang
Research Area: Nanorod shell growth and square particles
Hongxiao now is at Shandong University, China.
Soon Hye Yang
Research Area: Silver- and Gold-Coated Nanoparticles for Biotechnology
Soon is a doctoral student from Kwangwoon University, Seoul, South Korea.
She is currently at Eastern New Mexico University.
Yiran Zhu
Zhu is a doctoral student from China.
Past Visiting Scholar
Xiaoman Zhai
Research Area: Nanoparticle synthesis
Xiaoman was a visiting graduate student from the Beijing Institute of Technology, China. After recieving her Phd from China Xiaoman is currently studying Information System and Operations Management (ISOM) at University of Florida.
Past Undergraduate Researchers
Julie Barnes
Research Area: Nanoparticle synthesis, gel formation, and purification
Julie graduated with B.S. in 2013.
Matthew Espinosa
Research Area: Nanoparticle synthesis, inert atmosphere control, and high-pressure crystal phase transitions.
Matt is currently a graduate student a Yale.
Jeffrey Francis
Research Area: Nanoparticle synthesis and bio-applications
Jeff is currently at University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine.
Shelby Goicochea
Research Area: Nanozymes for bioapplications.
Shelby is a former undergraduate student at UF.
Dmitriy Nikitin
Research Area:
Dmitriy is a Biology major at UF.
He joined Dr. Cao’s group in the Spring of 2016.
Phillip Rustenberghe
Research Area: Noble metal recycling.
Phillip is a former undergraduate student at UF.
Will Santos
Will is a sophomore undergraduate student at UF as of 2014.
Ruiying Zhou
