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Team Members

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Lan Luan, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Department of Bioengineering, Rice NeuroEngineering Initiative

Ph D. in Physics, Stanford University

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Rongkang Yin, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow (2021/05 - )

Rice Neuroengineering Initiative

Ph. D Integrated Life Sciences (Chemistry), with a focus on neuroengineering, Peking University

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Yingchu Sun

Graduate student (2020/09)

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

B.S. Optical Engineering, Zhejiang University, China

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Yifu Jin

Graduate student (2019/08 -)

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

B. S. Bioengineering, UCSD

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Xiaorong Zhang

Graduate student (2023/09)

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

B.S. Biophysics, University of Science and Technology of China

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Robin Kim

Graduate student (2019/11 - )

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

B.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University

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Luis De La Palma Piedras

Graduate student (2024/01)

Department of Biochemistry

B.S. Chemistry with an emphasis of biochemistry, University of California, Santa Cruz

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Jia-ao Zhang

Graduate student (2022/01)

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

B.S. Biomedical Engineering, Tsinghua University

Alumni

POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW 

  • Dr. Fei He (Sep 2017 – June 2021). Current position: Professor, CAS Shanghai 

  • Dr. Mehran Ganji (Aug 2019 – April 2022), Current Position: IC design engineer, Keysight technology 

GRADUATE STUDENTS

  • Haad Rathore, Ph. D. (2020-2024, APP), next step: Apple Inc.

  • Xinyu Li, MS (2021/09 – 2022/05, Department of Bioengineering), current Position: Ph. D. Student, Department of Biomedical Engineering, UIUC

  • Brian Noble, MS (2019-2022, Applied Physics Program), next step: Ph. D. Student @ UT Health

  • Nicole Sevilla, Department of Bioengineering

  • Matthew Gibson, Department of Bioengineering

UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS

  • Ms. Olivia Nail-Beatty, Neuroscience program, 2022/01 - 2022/05

  • Ms. Heather Szczesniak, Department of Computer Science, 2021/06 -  2022/05

  • Mr. Frank Cheng, Department of Computer Science, 2021 Summer

  • Ms. Tanya Cruz, BUILD REU program, Department of Biomedical engineering, University of Texas, San Antonio, 2021 summer

  • Ms. Elise Gibney, Department of ECE, 2019 – 2020

  • Ms. Dara Okeremi, Department of Bioengineering, 2019 – present 

  • Mr. Alex Li, Department of Computer Science, 2020 summer research assistant. 

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