Chang-Beom Kim, Ph.D

Dr. Kim was a postdoctoral research fellow in the Kim Lab from 2006-07. He is currently a research assistant professor at Korea University in Seoul, South Korea.

Email) mikael0929@gmail.com

Ed Steager, Ph.D.

Ed was a PhD student in the Kim Group from 2006-09. His PhD work was to actuate and control microbiorobots powered by flagellated bacteria for manipulation and sensing in microfluidic environments. He was a recipient of prestigious GAANN, NSK GK12 and Koerner family fellowship during his PhD program. Now he is a postdoctoral research fellow at the GRASP labp in the University of Pennsylvania.

Email) esteager@gmail.com

Jigar Patel, M.S.M.E.

Jigar was a BS/MS student in the Kim Group from 2006-08. He is currently a project manager in Dupont. He worked on the development of bacterial transportation systems in microfluidic networks.

Email) princejigar@gmail.com

Socheth Bith, M.S.M.E.

Chet used existing cultureing techniques and developed effective techniques to manipulate micron-scale structures for a biofactory-on-a-chip device. Currently he is working in the Dominion Fairless Energy, LLC.

Email) socheth.bith@dom.com

Dave Casale, M.S.M.E.

Dave worked on a variety of cellular engineering projects in the Kim group.He developed microfluidic assays for microbial chemotaxis and numerical model for three-dimensional magnetic controllers.

Email) dmc642@gmail.com

William Hesse, B.S.M.E.

Bill researched the use of bacterial flagella for use in micro and nano architectures, including the biologically inspired microswimmer senior design group (2008-09). Bill is a recipient of NSFGRF & NDSEG. He is currently a graduate student in the Dept. of Mech. Eng. at the MIT.

Email) wrhesse@mit.edu & william.r.hesse@gmail.com

Peter Fink, B.S.M.E.

Peter joined us for his senior design project. He actively worked on the development of 3-D magnetic controllers using LabView systems. Recently he has settled in Washington D.C. for his industrial career.

Email) peter.k.fink@drexel.edu

Basil Milton, B.S.M.E.

Basil worked on a NSF funded project: Biologically-Inspired Microswimmers. His role was to control microswimmers using 3-D magnetic field generators in microfluidic environments.He is a recipent of Hess Honor Scholarship for his undergraduate research in the Kim group.

Email) basilmilton@gmail.com

John Smolko

John was a Hess Honor Scholar to develop bacterial transportation system in 2008. He is currently on his Coop program.

Email) jhs35@drexel.edu

Ted Bieniosek

Ted was working as a Hess Honor Scholar on biologically-powered microrobotic system in 2008.

Email) t.bieniosek@gmail.com

Alex Moraga, B.S.M.E.

Alex carried out his senior design project entitled as LDL apheresis in the Kim Lab from 2007-08. He is currently on internship under the Christian and Missionary Alliance.

Email) aamb37@gmail.com

Steve Olsen, B.S.M.E.

Steve worked on the LDL apheresis project for his senior design project from 2007-08.

Email) sao26@drexel.edu

Michael Cecchini, B.S.M.E.

Michael was a member of the 2007-08 senior design project team in the Kim Group for the LDL apheresis project. He is currently a Ph.D student in the Imperial College London. He is still living in small scale world with finding NANO, not NEMO.

Email) mpc47@drexel.edu

Chandan Naik, B.S.M.E.

Chandan was a member of the 2006-07 senior design project team in Kim Group. He developed new methods to control bacterial transportation system using bacterial phototaxis. Currently he is working in the Agusta Aerospeace Corporation.

Email) Chandan.Naik@agustawestland.com

Lindsay Reber, B.S.M.E.

Lindsay was in the bacterial actuation, sensing and transport team to develop a new class of micro-transporter utilizing flagellated bacteria from 2006-07.

Email) lmr35@drexel.edu

Paul Kim

Paul was a summer REU student in 2007. He is currently an undergraduate student at mechanical engineering department of Carnegie Mellon University.

Email) pskim@andrew.cmu.edu

Michael Johnson

Mr. Johnson was a summer RET fellow in 2007. He is currently a teacher in the Thurgood Marshall K-8. He joined in the development of bacterial microbots with his expertise in Robotics.

Email) mijohnson@phila.k12.pa.us

Peggy Savage

Ms. Savage was a summer RET fellow in 2007. She is currently a teacher in the Richmond Elementary School. She worked on single molecule detection project in the Kim Lab.

Email) taekwondospirit@gmail.com

Bonny Bradway

Bonny joined us under the 2008 summer mentorship program for high school students. She worked on the development of chemotactic gradients in a variety of microfluidic environment in the Kim Lab.

Email) bonbradway@comcast.net

Karuna Thomas

Karuna was a REU SENSOR fellow in 2008. She developed a way to harvest bacterial flagellar nanotubes for nanoscale engineering systems in the Kim Lab.

Email)krthomas@stkate.edu

Yaminah Watson

Yaminar was a REU student from the Cheyney University of Pennsylvania. She developed many chemical functionalization for surface chemistry in solid-state nanopore sensors in the Kim Lab.

Email) ywatson@cheyney.edu

Stephen Joo

Stephen was a high school research intern during 2009 summer. He worked on microbiorobotics and now is a freshman at the dept. of biomedical engineering in George Washington University.

Email) soodong.joo@comcast.net

Catherine Cho

Catherine worked on bacterial flagellar polymerization under the NSF REU program. She is now on a preMed course in Temple University and will join us next summer again.

Email) tub48525@temple.edu