Principal investigator
Dr. Liang Dong is currently the Northrop Grumman Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering (by courtesy), a Faculty Scholar of the Plant Sciences Institute, and an Associate Director of the Microelectronics Research Center, at Iowa State University (ISU). He is also an associate of the U.S. DOE’s Ames Laboratory. He received his Ph.D. degree in Electronic Science and Technology from the Institute of Microelectronics at Tsinghua University in 2004. His doctoral dissertation was on MEMS based infrared imaging sensors. Before joining the faculty of ISU in 2007, he was a postdoc in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Wisconsin-Madison, developing micro-optical and microfluidic devices.
Dr. Dong's research has been recognized by the "Best Advanced Materials Technologies 2017" paper (2018), the Young Researcher Poster Award (as advisor) at µTAS (2021), the Best Student Paper Award (as advisor) and the Best Paper Award Finalist at the IEEE Nanotechnology Conference (2017), the Outstanding Paper Award Finalist at the International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems (Transducers 2017), and the Best Student Paper Award Finalist (as advisor) at the IEEE Sensors Conference (2016). He was a Keynote or Plenary speaker on the topic of plant and soil analytics at the major conferences, such as µTAS (International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences, 2017), PAG (Plant & Animal Genome Conference, 2018) and Phenome (Phenome 2019) He received the National Science Foundation CAREER Award, the PSI Faculty Scholar Award, the Early Career Engineering Faculty Research Award, the Harpole-Pentair Developing Faculty Award, the Warren B. Boast Undergraduate Teaching Award. He also was a recipient of the Top 100 National Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award of China.
Dr. Dong currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, Associate Editor of Micro & Nano Letters, Topic Editor of Biosensors, and Editorial Board Member of Scientific Reports and Journal of Nanomedicine.
Dr. Dong is also Co-Founder of EnGeniousAg, a startup company based in Ames, Iowa.
Phone: 515-294-0388; Fax: 515-294-8432
Email: ldong@iastate.edu
Office Address: 2115 Coover Hall; Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011
Post-docs
Dr. Azahar Ali (Postdoc researcher)
Research: MEMS agriculture sensors Email: azahar@iastate.edu |
Dr. Huawei Jiang (Postdoc researcher)
Research: Plant phenotyping and microfluidics Email: jhw0114@iastate.edu |
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Doctoral students
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Praveen Gurrala
Research: Wearable electromagnetic devices (co-advised with Dr. J. Song) Email: praveeng@iastate.edu |
Xinran Wang
Research: Electronic circuits and sensors for plant phenotyping and biochips Email: xrwang@iastate.edu |
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Yifei Wang
Research: Nanophotonics (co-advised with Dr. M. Lu) Email: yifeiw@iastate.edu |
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Other researchers
Erik Lee (EE, Iowa State University) Research: Biosensors
Email: eglee@iastate.edu |
Marion Okoth (EE, Iowa State University) Research: Lab-chip devices
Email: mookoth@iastate.edu |
Philip Alarcon-Furman (ME & BioE, Iowa State University) Research: Drug screening biochips
Email: philipa@iastate.edu |
Alumini
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Ph.D. graduates
Dr. Le Wei (Ph.D. 2021) Dr. Yuncong Chen (Ph.D. 2021) Dr. Praveen Gurrala (Ph.D. 2020) Dr. Yueyi Jiao (Ph.D. 2019) Dr. Xinran Wang (Ph.D. 2019; now at EnGeniousAg, IA) Dr. Yifei Wang (Ph.D. 2019; now at ASML, CA) Dr. Shawana Tabassum (Ph.D. 2018; now at Iowa State) Dr. Zhen Xu (Ph.D. 2018, now at Bright Dream Robot) Dr. Seval Oren (Ph.D. 2018, now faculty at Anadolu University) Dr. Qiugu Wang (Ph.D. 2017, now at Brion Technologies, CA) Dr. Siming Yang (Ph.D. 2017, now at Itron, SC) Dr. Peng "Patrick" Liu (Ph.D. 2016, now at Epic, WI) Dr. Huawei Jiang (Ph.D. 2016, now at Iowa State) Dr. Depeng Mao (Ph.D. 2014, now at Amazon, WA) Dr. Haifeng Yang (Ph.D. 2012, now at Skyworks, IA) M.S. Degree graduates Sung Min Kang (M.S. 2021) Carson Kneip (M.S. 2021) Matthew Davis (M.S. 2019) Ranjitha L. Narayanan (M.S. 2019, now at GlobalFoundries) Xuan Qiao (M.S. 2017) Jikang Qu (M.S. 2017, now at Iowa State) Yuncong Chen (M.S. 2016, now at Iowa State) Clinton Young (M.S. 2015, now at Rockwell Collins, IA) Pooja Ramesh (M.S. 2010, now at Intel, OR) Victor Roa Baerga (M.S. 2010, now at 3M, MN) Visiting professors Prof. Tongyan Tang (Visiting professor, 2009, Professor at Harbin Institute of Technology, China) Prof. Haiying Du (Visiting professor, 2016-2017, Dalian Minzu University, China) Others Haisong Lin (B.S. 2016, now at UCLA) Weikun Han (B.S. 2016, now at UCLA) Mingda Yang (B. S. 2016, now at Cornell) Jingyu Xie (B.S. 2015, now at University of South California) Sicong Yu (B.S. 2015, now at UC-Davis) Alexandra Bruce (B.S. 2012, now at Purdue) Eric Ng (B.S. 2011, now at Micron, Idaho) Carin Lightner (B.S. 2011, now at Cornell ) |
