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 device-bioengineering approaches, sensors, sensing systems, biochips, and electronic and photonic materials and devices, to study the water-energy-food-health nexus for food security, sustainability, and human and animal health. His group aims to create new sensors, diagnostic tools and instrumentation that can enable direct, accurate, and continuous measurements for the plant-soil-environment system and One-Health system. His research will help geneticists, breeding scientists, physiologists, and agronomists to develop new cultivars and management practices for increasing food security, reducing resource inputs, and lowering greenhouse gas emissions; and will provide new means of detecting biomarkers, and hence disease diagnosis and prognosis at low cost, high speed, and high accuracy. Dr. Dong's research has been recognized by several best paper awards and best paper finalists at major conferences in his research area (e.g., IEEE Sensors, IEEE Nanotechnology, Transducers, uTAS). He was a Keynote or Plenary speaker on the topic of digital agriculture at several 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).
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 (acquired by CropX in September 2024).
Phone: 515-294-0388; Fax: 515-294-8432
Email: [email protected]
Office at Coover Hall: 2201A Coover.
Office at Applied Science Complex: 115A, ASC 2.
Scientist
Dr. Sam Xing
(MRC Research Scientist II) |
Post-docs
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Dr. Vignesh Kumar Thoomatti Haridass
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Dr. Nawab Singh
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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) |
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 ) |
