Yang "Lexi" Gao

Lab Manager

M.S. Chinese Academy of Sciences

Starting date: Sep 2021

Research Topic: Wearable biobatteries

Ruohan "Astrid" Zhang

B.S. ShanghaiTech U.

Starting date: Sep 2024

Research Topic: MEMS with Exoelectrogens

Botian "Jackson" Wang

B.S. Florida International University

Starting date:  Sep. 2025

Research Topic: Biobatteries and Biosensors

Guangya  "Roger" Yuan

M.S. North Carolina State University

Starting date: Sep. 2025

Research Topic: Biobatteries and Biosensors

Siddhu Ravi

B.S. SUNY Binghamton

Starting date: Sep 2025

Research Topic: Plant Microbial Fuel Cells

Ron Alweiss

Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering

Starting date: Sep. 2022 

Research Topic: Biofuel cells

Jenny Huang

Department of Biological Sciences and Chemistry

Starting date: Sep. 2024

Research Topic: Sustainable Devices

Farewell party for Zahra (July, 2025)

Zahra's PhD defense (July, 2025)

  Transducers Conference (June 2025)

Maryam's PhD defense (June, 2025)

Farewell party for Maryam (June, 2025)

Maryam's Presentation at 3MT Competition(May, 2025)

Maryam: Graduate student excellence award in Research (March 2025)

Media spotlight on Maryam's artificial plant (Oct. 2024)

Lin's Wedding (Sep. 2024)

Lula's NSF REU Poster presentation (Aug. 2024)

Anwar's PhD defense (July, 2024)

Hilton Head Workshop (June, 2024)

Zahra: Graduate student excellence award in Research (March 2024)

IEEE MEMS Conference (Jan, 2024)

The State of the University Campus Showcase in Albany (May, 2023)

Anwar: Graduate student excellence award in Research (March 2023)

PowerMEMS (December 2022)

Hilton Head Workshop (June, 2022)

Mya's graduation (May, 2022)

Group picture after farewell party for Mya Landers (May, 2022)

Group picture after farewell party for Lin Liu (August, 2021)

 Liu's graduation ceremony (May, 2021)

Group picture (July, 2020)

Hilton Head Workshop 2018 (June, 2018)

Farewell party for Sumiao (August, 2017)

Group picture (May, 2017)

IEEE MEMS 2017 (January, 2017)

IEEE Sensors 2016 (November, 2016)

Farewell party for Arwa (May, 2016)

Arwa's graduation (May, 2016)

IEEE MEMS 2015 (January, 2015)

IEEE NEMS 2014 (April, 2014)

PH.D.

Zahra Rafiee  (2025) - Dissertation : Papertronic sensing platforms for real-time electrical monitoring of antibiotic susceptibility  (Engineer  at E tech group)

Maryam Rezaie  (2025) - Dissertation : Advanced Miniaturized Microbial Fuel Cells for Next-Generation Bioelectronic Applications (Senior R&D Engineer  at Saras Micro Devices)

Anwar Elhadad (2024) - Dissertation : Advancements in Miniaturized Biological Solar Cells and Microbial Fuel Cells for Powering IoT devices & Electronics (Assistant Professor at Binghamton U.)

Jihyun Ryu (2021) - Dissertation : Wearable Microbial Fuel Cells (Engineer)

Lin Liu (2021, Ph.D and Postdoc) - Dissertation : Performance Enhancement of Miniature Microbial Solar Cells (Assistant Professor at Seattle Pacific University)

Mehdi Tahernia (2020) - Dissertation : Papertronic sensing array for rapid and high-throughput screening of electroactive microorganisms (Program Manager at Vital Materials Co. Limited)

Maedeh Mohammadifar  (2020) - Dissertation : Biobatteries for Health and Environmental Monitoring (was Assistant Professor at the University of Texas at Permian Basin and now Engineer at Bio-Rad Laboratories))

Yang Gao (2020) - Dissertation : Flexible and Stretchable Bacteria-Powered Biobatteries (Postdoc at the University of Texas at Austin)

Arwa Fraiwan  (2016) - Dissertation : Paper-based Microbial Fuel Cells (Assistant Professor at Louisiana Tech. University)

M.S. Thesis

Mya Landers (2022) - Thesis: Paper-integrated Components for Disposable Papertronic Devices  - (Electronics Hardware Designer at Draper)

Jonghyun Cho (2020) - Thesis: A paper-based microbial fuel cell sensor for water quality monitoring  - (PH.D. student at Rutgers University)

Sumiao Pang  (2017) - Thesis: Fexible and Stetchable Microbial Fuel Cells  - (PH.D. student at University of Maryland)

Gihoon Choi  (2015) - Thesis: A paper-based sensor array for electromicrobiology (Engineer at Sandia National Lab)

Weiyang Yang (2016) - Thesis: Microbial Toxic Sensors (Product Development Engineer at Luminus Devices)

Xuejian Wei  (2016) -Thesis: uL Bio-solar cells (Director at Intelligent Automation)

M.S. Project

Matthew K. Krug (2025) - Project: 3D-Printed Artificial Food (Engineer at L3Harris Technologies)

Luca Iacono (2025) - Project: Bacterial Microrobots (Engineer at Zebra Technologies)

Matthew Suttmeier (2025) - Project: Plant Microbial Fuel Cells (Engineer at Precision Filters)

Nicolette Cascioli (2024) - Project: Kombucha-based biofuel cells (Engineer at Constellation Clean Energy Center)

Jason Tang (2023) - Project: Paper-based biofuel cells (Engineer at Terran Orbital)

Stefan Richter (2022) - Project: Biosensors for monitoring Ankylosing Spondylitis 

Amit Madan (2021) - Project: Energy Harvesting (Engineer at Analog Devices)

Marwa Chowdhury (2021) - Project: Smart Bandage for Wound Healing (Program manager at Central Hudson)

Emily Kimiecik (2021) - Project: Moisture-Induced Energy Harvesting (Engineer at BAE Systems)

Shuai Feng (2020) - Project: Microbial fuel cells

Vishrut Vaman Shenoy (2020) - Project: Antibiotic susceptibility testing (Ph.D. at BU)

Andrew T. Barza (2020) - Project: Biosensors for monitoring micro-plastics

Mohammed F. Alyas (2019) - Project: Drug delivery (Engineer at Soudi Electricity Company)

Jason Ephraim (2019) - Project: Nanogenerators (Engineer at Harris Corp.)

Madhura R. Shanbhag (2017, Biomedical engineering Dept.) - Project:  3-D culture systems for C. elegans (Engineer at Fresenius Medical Care)

Mark Freithaler (2017) - Project: Sweat-based microbial fuel cells (Engineer at Macom)

Kamil Roszkowski (2016) - Project: Biofuel production (Engineer at General Dynamics)

Jiem Nguyen (2015) - Project: UV LED-based photolithography systems (Engineer at National Grid)

Shannon Rosario (2014) - Project: A Lab-on-a-chip for circulating tumor cells

B.S.

Hail Chun (2019) - Engineer at Protec. Inc (Korea)

Timothy S Kim (2017) - Engineer at National Security Agency

Eunyoung Cho (2017, Biology Dept.) - PH.D. student at Ryerson University (Canada)

Christopher Coogan (2016, Biomedical engineering Dept.) - PH.D. student at University of Minnesota

Weiye Li (2016) - M.S. student at ETH Zurich

Jiaqi Zhang (2015) - M.S. student at National University of Singapore

Bonnie Tran (2014) - M.S. student at Colombia University

WanChao Guo (2014) - Engineer at GE Aviation

San Yoon (2014, Biology Dept.) - Medical Student at St. George's University

Hankeun Lee (2014) - US ARMY

Simeng Chen (2014) - PH.D. student at University of Colorado Boulder

Chunhui Dai (2014) - PH.D. student at University of Minnesota

Thu Nguyen (2014) - PH.D. student at University of Waterloo

Steven J. Sundermier (2013) - Engineer at BAE systems

LSAMP

Bryanna S. Brown (2017 Summer) - M.S. student at Carnegie Mellon University

NSF REU

Jenny Huang (2025 Summer) from Binghamton University

Lula Baldriche (2024 Summer) from Middle Tennessee State University

Alexa R. Juran (2017 Summer) from Broome Community College

Landen Kwan (2015 Summer) from Queensborough Community College

Taneesha Beebe (2014 Summer) from Russel Sage College

High School

Kendra Zhang (2016 & 2017 Summer) from Jericho High School - Colombia University  

Chris Fischer (2014 & 2015 Summer) from Briarcliff High School - University of Pennsylvania

Reed Walter (2011 Summer) from Loveland High School - Ohio State University