D-line Alumni

Ruipeng Li

RPLi





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

SMilazzo  









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
https://twitter.com/stephmilazzo


Masters of Engineering Program at the Cornell School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

George Guo

GGuo








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

VRosa








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

PDorion









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

MChang










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

ZhWang












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


career: application engineer for an UK company producing ink products

Bryan Louie

BLouie











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

SGao











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., NY


Willy Halim

WHalim












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

Teaching associate at Cornell Chemical Engineering.


Huawei Zhou

HZhou











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 Beijing Sensing Technology

Aleksander Itskovich

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

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

Sarah Chen














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


Li-Wei Lo

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