The Team!

Shukla Group Members and Alumni

Principal Investigator


Diwakar Shukla
Principal Investigator

Postdoctoral Fellows


Yiyang Lu
Postdoctoral Fellow, ChBE, 2022-
Ning Wang
Postdoctoral Fellow, 2024-

Graduate Students


Xuenan Mi
Graduate Student, Biophysics, 2019-
Prateek Bansal 2022
Prateek Bansal
Graduate Student, ChBE, 2019-
Hsin-Lan (Nicole) Chiang
Graduate Student, ChBE, 2020-
Diego E. Kleiman
Graduate Student, Biophysics, 2020-
Song Yin
Graduate Student, ChBE, 2021-
Tanner J. Dean
Graduate Student, Biophysics, 2021-
Lingyun Xu
Graduate Student, Bioengineering, 2021-
Arnav Paul
Graduate Student, Chemistry, 2022-
Hassan Nadeem
Graduate Student, Bioengineering, 2022-
Lin Zhu
Graduate Student, Information Science, 2023-
Adrija Dutta
Graduate Student, Chemistry, 2023-
Nathan Tvedt
Graduate Student, Biophysics, 2023-
Harrison Wu
Graduate Student, Biophysics, 2023-
Wilson G. Wu
Graduate Student, ChBE, 2023-
Michael Chen
Graduate Student, ChBE, 2024-
Miko Nina Miwa
Graduate Student, Chemistry, 2024-
Eric Giavedoni
Graduate Student, ChBE, 2024-
Yong-Cheol Cho
Graduate Student, ChBE, 2024-
Shaoming Chen
Graduate Student, MatSE, 2024-
Masi Dashtban
Graduate Student, ABE, 2024-

Undergraduate Students


Sabrina Mei
Undergraduate Researcher, BioE, 2024-
Joseph Clark
Undergraduate Student, Molecular and Cellular Biology, 2025

Group Alumni


Austin T. Weigle
PhD, Chemistry, 2017-2023
Krishna Kumar Narayanan
PhD, Biochemistry, 2019-2023
Soumajit Dutta
PhD, ChBE, 2018-2023
Matthew Chan
Graduate Student, ChBE, 2017-2022
Jiming Chen
Ph. D., ChBE, 2017-2022
Jiangyan Feng
Ph.D., ChBE, 2016-2021
Chuankai Zhao
Ph. D., ChBE, 2015-2020
Shriyaa Mittal
Ph. D., Biophysics, 2015-2020
Zahra Shamsi
Ph. D., ChBE, 2015-2019
Alexander S. Moffett
Ph. D., Biophysics, 2014-2019
Zhengyuan Xue
M.S., Biophysics, 2019-2022
Kihong (Max) Kim
B.S. ChBE, 2024
Sohom S. Dash
B.S., Bioengineering, 2024
Anh T. P. Nguyen
B.S., ChBE, 2023
Briana Sobecks
B.S., ChBE, 2022
Yazeed Alfawaz
B.S., ChBE, 2021
Amisha Patel
B.S., ChBE, 2021
Faisal Aldukhi
B.S., ChBE, 2019
Aik Rui Tan
B.S., MatSE, 2019
Qihua Chen
B.S., MatSE, 2018
Moeen Meigooni
B. S., ChBE, 2017
Zeynep Ali
B.S., ChBE, 2016
Lawrence Zhao
Student Researcher, University High School, 2020-2022
Balaji Selvam
Postdoctoral Fellow, ChBE, 2015-2020
Pouyan Khakbaz
Postdoctoral Fellow, ChBE, 2018-2020
Rabindranath Paul
Postdoctoral Fellow, ChBE, 2021-2023