Former Members
Former Postdoctoral Researchers

Dr. Valerie Soo
Ph.D.
Massey University (New Zealand)
2012

Dr. Nityananda Chowdhury
Ph.D.
Osaka Prefecture University (Japan)
2010

Dr. Fayin Zhu
Ph.D.
Wuhan Univeristy (China)
2014

Dr. Venkata Giridhar Poosarla
Ph.D.
Indian Institute of Technology Madras (India)
2012

Dr. Wenzhao Wang
Ph.D.

Dr. Hsin-Yao Cheng
Ph.D.
National Chiao Tung University (Taiwan)
2010

Dr. Devon Otani Osbourne
Ph.D.
Loma Linda University (United States)
2011

Dr. Cecilia Quiroga
Ph.D.
University of Buenos Aires (Argentina)
2007

Dr. Ying Hu
Ph.D.
Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics
2009

Dr. Hazel O’Connor
Ph.D.
University College Cork
2011

Dr. Xiaoxue Wang
Ph.D.
Texas A&M University
2006

Dr. Mingming Pu
Ph.D.
Boston College
2009

Dr. Yunho Lee
Ph.D.
Korea University
2010

Dr. Akihiro Ueda
Ph.D.
Nagoya University
2002

Dr. Younghoon Kim
Ph.D. Korea University 2007

Dr. Uma Sagaram
Ph.D.
Texas A&M University
2007

Dr. Sage R. Hiibel
Ph.D.
Colorado State University
2008

Dr. Jintae Lee
Ph.D.
Rutgers University
2004

Dr. Chang-Ping (Michael) Yu
Ph.D.
National Taiwan University
2001

Dr. Xuesong Zhang
Ph.D.
The City University of New York
2006

Dr. Rodolfo Garcia Contreras
Ph.D. National Autonomous University of Mexico UNAM 2005

Dr. Toshinari Maeda
Ph.D.
Kyushu Institute of Technology
2006

Dr. Moshe Herzberg
Ph.D.
Technion-Technical Institute of Israel
2003

Dr. Youngsoon Um
Ph.D.
University of Maryland
2004

Dr. Ayelet Fishman
Ph.D.
Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
2002

Dr. Young Man Kwon
Ph.D.
Korea University
1999

Dr. Dogan Ornek
Ph.D.
Cornell University
1998

Dr. Keith Canada
Ph.D.
Louisiana State University
1998

Dr. Hojea Shim
Ph.D.
Ohio State University
1997

Dr. Sadhana Chauhan
Ph.D.
Indian Institute of Technology
1996

Dr. Kang Ryu
Ph.D.
Hanyang University
2002

Dr. Karna Prasanthi
Ph.D.
Central Food Technology Research Institute
2001

Dr. Sajja Hari Krishna
Ph.D.
Central Food Technology Research Institute
2001
Former Postdoctoral Researchers not pictured
- Dr. Evgeny Gak: Ph.D., Cornell University, 1997
- Dr. Ik-Sung Ahn: Ph.D., Institute of Genetics and Selection of Industrial Microorganisms, 1995