Field-Of-Study: Engineering

Niles Pierce is working to engineer programmable molecular instruments capable of reading out and regulating the state of biological circuitry within intact biological organisms. In this pursuit, his laboratory has contributed to the founding of the new discipline of molecular programming, developing molecular mechanisms, design principles, and computational algorithms that enable the rational design and

Dr. Huimin Zhao is the Centennial Endowed Chair Professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, and professor of chemistry, biochemistry, biophysics, and bioengineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC).  He received his B.S. degree in Biology from the University of Science and Technology of China in 1992 and his Ph.D. degree in Chemistry from

Alan Willner received the Ph.D. (1988) in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University, as well as a B.S. (1982) and an Honorary Degree (Honoris Causa, 2012) from Yeshiva University. He was a Postdoctoral Member of the Technical Staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories and a Member of Technical Staff at Bellcore. He is currently the Steven and

Fiorenzo (Fio) G. Omenetto is a Professor of Biomedical Engineering and leads the laboratory for Ultrafast Nonlinear Optics and Biophotonics at Tufts University and also holds an appointment in the Department of Physics. His research addresses multiple themes ranging from optics, nanostructured materials (such as photonic crystals and photonic crystal fibers), nanofabrication, and biopolymer based

Hyongsok (Tom) Soh is a Professor in the departments of mechanical and materials engineering and holds the Ruth Garland Endowed Chair at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). He received bachelor’s degrees in mechanical engineering and materials science and a master’s degree in electrical engineering from Cornell University (1992, 1993) and both master’s and

Pat Doyle is an Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1992 he received his B.S.E in Chemical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania. He received his M.S. in 1993 and Ph.D. in 1997 from Stanford University, both in Chemical Engineering. From 1997 to 2000 he was a postdoctoral fellow

Constance Chang-Hasnain is the John R. Whinnery Chair Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley, and Chair of its Nanoscale Science and Engineering Graduate Group. In addition she is the Director of the Center for Optoelectronic Nanostructured Semiconductor Technologies at Berkeley. She is also the cofounder, and from 1998