People
Principal investigator
Dongkyun “DK” Kang, PhD
Students
Kenneth Marcelino (PhD student, OSC)
B.S. Loyola University Maryland, Baltimore, MD, 2021
Momoka Sugimura (PhD student, OSC)
B.S. University of Arizona, 2020
Paige Sawyers (PhD student, OSC, co-advised by Dr. Travis Sawyer)
B.S. University of Arizona, 2021
Rafael Romero (PhD student, BME)
B.S. University of Arizona, 2021
M.S. University of Arizona, 2023
Yong Jun Kim (MS student, BME)
B.S. South Dakota State University, 2019
Ameer Nessaee (MS student, ECE)
B.S. University of Arizona, 2024
Carmella Ocaya (MS student, BME)
B.S. University of Arizona, 2024
Michael Gnesda (MS student, OSC)
B.S. University of Arizona, 2024
Kayma Konecny (Undergraduate, OSC)
Jason Datta (Undergraduate, BME)
Adiba Haque (Undergraduate, BME)
Tara Patel (Undergraduate, OSC)
Hana Diamond (Undergraduate, BME)
Kian Ali Sadat (Undergraduate, ECE)
Alumni
Dr. Wenbin Zhu (Postdoc fellow, 2019) – Last known position: Rivian
Dr. Nachiket Kulkarni (PhD, 2021) – Last known position: KLA
Dr. Jingwei Zhao (PhD, 2024) – Last known position: Apple
Christopher Nguyen (MS, 2019) – Last known position: Tufts
Cheng Gong (MS, 2020) – Last known position: Columbia
Raphael Osifeso (MS, 2020)
Patrick O’Neal (MS, 2021) – Last known position: EyeQue
Andrew Masciola (BS, 2021) – Last known position: University of Arizona
Hasina Shir (Keys high-school summer intern, 2018) – Last known position: University of Arizona
Katie Canedo (Keys high-school summer intern, 2019)
Becky Han (Keys high-school summer intern, 2020)
Shivam Kedia (Keys high-school summer intern, 2021)
Shirley Xiang (Keys high-school summer intern, 2022) – Last known position: UCLA
Collaborators
Eric J. Yang, MD, PhD
Department of Pathology, Stanford University (Stanford, CA)
Clara Curiel, MD
Department of Dermatology, University of Arizona
Jaya Chidambaram, MD, PhD
University of Manchester (UK)
Esther E. Freeman, MD, PhD
Department of Dermatology, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital (Boston, MA)
Aggrey S. Semeere, MB, chB
Infectious Diseases Institute (Uganda)
Jeffery N. Martin, MD, MPH
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California San Francisco (San Francisco, CA)
Milind Rajadhyaksha, PhD
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (New York, NY)
Guillermo J. Tearney, MD, PhD
Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital (Boston, MA)
Salvador González, MD
Department of Medicine and Medical Specialties, Alcalá University and Ramon y Cajal Hospital (Spain)