Principal investigator
Dr. Liang Dong is currently the Vikram Dalal Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Director of the Microelectronics Research Center, and Faculty Scholar of the Plant Sciences Institute, at Iowa State University (ISU). He is also an associate of the U.S. DOE’s Ames National Laboratory, and a member of the USDA/NSF-funded AI Institute for Resilient Agriculture at ISU. He received his Ph.D. degree in Electronic Science and Technology from the Institute of Microelectronics at Tsinghua University in 2004. His doctoral dissertation on MEMS based infrared imaging sensors won the National Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award (China). Before joining the faculty of ISU in 2007, he was a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Wisconsin-Madison, developing micro-optical and microfluidic devices. Dr. Dong previously held Northrop Grumman Professorship and Harpole-Pentair Professorship, and received the National Science Foundation CAREER Award, the PSI Faculty Scholar Award, the Early Career Engineering Faculty Research Award, and the Warren B. Boast Undergraduate Teaching Award at ISU.
Dr. Dong's research is focused on developing next-generation sensors and sensing systems to address challenges at the water-energy-food-health nexus, with applications in food security, precision agriculture, and sustainable ecosystems. His group is dedicated to designing and deploying innovative sensors, microelectronic devices, diagnostic tools, instrumentation, and cyber-physical systems for direct, accurate, and continuous monitoring of the plant-soil-environment system and the One-Health system. The goal of his research is to support the development of new cultivars resilient to various biotic and abiotic stresses, optimize agricultural management practices, improve profitability by enhancing crop yields and animal health, and minimize negative environmental impacts. Dr. Dong's research has been recognized by the Soil Science Society of America “Society Best Journal Paper Award” (2023) along with several other best paper awards and finalist recognitions at conferences and in journals. He was a plenary speaker on the topic of precision agriculture at several major conferences, including PAG (the 2018 Plant and Animal Genome PAG XXVI, the largest Ag-genomics conference in the world).
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 was Co-Founder and CTO of EnGeniousAg LLC from 2018-2024. The company was acquired by CropX in September 2024.
Phone: 515-294-0388
Email: [email protected]
Primary office: Applied Science Complex 2 (ASC 2): Room 115A (T, R, and afternoons on MWF).
Shared office at Coover Hall: 2135 Coover: (mornings on MWF when I teach)
Scientists
Dr. Sam Xing
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Dr. Vignesh Kumar Thoomatti Haridass
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Post-docs
Dr. Nawab Singh
Doctoral students
Shihao Yin
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Jacob Eisbrenner
(Co-advised with Dr. Meng Lu) |
Raufur Rahman Khan
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Sohini Mondal
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Mohammad "Anis" Rahaman
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Adnan Hossain Khan
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Qinming Zhang
(co-advised with Dr. Meng Lu) |
Rebeka Sultana
(co-advised with Dr. Jiming Song) |
Zhenhao Li
(co-advised with Cheng Huang) |
Other researchers
Erik Lee (EE, Iowa State University) Research: Biosensors
Email: [email protected] |
Marion Okoth (EE, Iowa State University) Research: Lab-chip devices
Email: [email protected] |
Philip Alarcon-Furman (ME & BioE, Iowa State University) Research: Drug screening biochips
Email: [email protected] |
Alumini
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Ph.D. graduates
Dr. Yang Tian (Ph.D. 2024) Dr. Seth Heerschap (Ph.D. 2022) Dr. Hussam Ibrahim (Ph.D. 2022) 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) Dr. Yifei Wang (Ph.D. 2019) Dr. Shawana Tabassum (Ph.D. 2018) Dr. Zhen Xu (Ph.D. 2018) Dr. Seval Oren (Ph.D. 2018) Dr. Qiugu Wang (Ph.D. 2017) Dr. Siming Yang (Ph.D. 2017) Dr. Peng Liu (Ph.D. 2016) Dr. Huawei Jiang (Ph.D. 2016) Dr. Depeng Mao (Ph.D. 2014) Dr. Haifeng Yang (Ph.D. 2012) M.S. Degree graduates Sung Min Kang (M.S. 2021) Carson Kneip (M.S. 2021) Matthew Davis (M.S. 2019) Ranjitha Narayanan (M.S. 2019) Xuan Qiao (M.S. 2017) Jikang Qu (M.S. 2017) Yuncong Chen (M.S. 2016) Clinton Young (M.S. 2015) Pooja Ramesh (M.S. 2010) Victor Roa Baerga (M.S. 2010) Postdoc researchers Dr. Md Tawabur Rahman (2020-2021) Dr. Satyanarayana Moru (2018-2019) Dr. Md Azahar Ali (2014-2019) Dr. Huawei Jiang (2017-2021) 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 ) |
