Professor Rohit Karnik
D'Arbeloff Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Email: karnik-at-mit.edu
Phone: 617-324-1155
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Prof. Karnik obtained his PhD from the University of California at Berkeley in 2006, where he studied transport in nanofluidic systems and developed devices for nanofluidic flow control, biosensing, and patterning. He was a postdoctoral associate in the laboratory of Prof. Robert Langer (Institute Professor, MIT) from 2006-2007, where he developed microfluidic devices for nanoparticle synthesis and invented a new technique for controlling the transport of cells. He holds a Bachelors degree from the Indian Institute of Technology (Bombay), where he was a recipient of the Institute Silver Medal. He joined the department of Mechanical Engineering as Assistant Professor in Fall 2007.
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Administrative Assistant
Thea Szatkowski
Room 3-461
Email: theaszat-at-mit.edu
Phone: 617-324-2805
Dr. Minsoung Rhee
Email: rhee-at-mit.edu
Minsoung Rhee is currently a postdoctoral associate of the Nanodelivery research group (Dr. Omid Farokzhad) at the Department of Anesthesiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and a research affiliate at the departments of Chemical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Laboratories of Institute Prof. Robert Langer and Prof. Rohit Karnik). Minsoung Rhee received his Ph.D. from the department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan in 2008. He holds a Bachelor's degree from the Chemical Engineering department at Seoul National University (Korea). He received three Master's degrees in different fields; M.S. in Chemical Engineering at Stanford University (Stanford, CA), M.S. in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Michigan, and M.S. in Bioinformatics at the Medical School of the University of Michigan.
Dr. Jong-Min Lim
Email: jmlim -at-mit.edu
Postdoctoral associate (BWH and Koch Institute). Jong-Min obtained his B.S in Chemical Engineering from Sogang University in 2004, and PhD in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering from KAIST in 2009. He was a postdoctoral associate in the laboratory of Prof. Seung-Man Yang (KAIST) from 2009-2010. Currently, he is working with Prof. Robert Langer (Institute Professor, MIT) and Prof. Omid Farokhzad (BWH) as a postdoctoral associate (2010- present). He joined Prof. Karnik???s group in summer 2010.
Dr. Sung Young Choi
Email: s_choi -at-mit.edu
Postdoctoral associate (Dept. of Mechanical Engineering). Sung Young obtained his PhD in Prof. Je-Kyun Park's group at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology in 2009, whre he studied microfluidic separation (hydrophoresis and inertial ordering) and 3D microparticle image velocimetry (mirror-embedded microchannel). He was a postdoctoral associate in the same group from 2009-2010, where he developed microfluidic devices for hydrodynamic study of molecular rheology and channel networks. He joined Prof. Karnik's group in the fall of 2010.
Yi-Heng Sen (Jason)
Email: sacl-at-mit.edu
PhD student (Dept. of Mechanical Engineering). Jason obtained his B.S in Electrical Engineering at National Taiwan University in 2004 and M.S in Mechanical Engineering at MIT in 2008. He joined Prof. Karnik???s group in summer 2007
Suman Bose
Email: sumanb-at-mit.edu
PhD student (Dept. of Mechanical Engineering). Suman obtained his B.Tech and M.Tech (Dual Degree) in Mechanical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (Kharagpur) in 2007 where he received the Institute Silver Medal. He joined Prof. Karnik???s group in Fall 2007.
Pedro M. Valencia
Email: pedroval-at-mit.edu
Pedro is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Chemical Engineering. Pedro obtained a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2007, and was No. 1 of his class. He completed his M.S. in Chemical Engineering Practice from MIT in 2009. He is the recipient of the NSF Graduate Fellowship (2007 - present). Pedro is co-advised by Institute Porfessor Robert Langer and Dr. Omid Farokhzad (Brigham Women's Hospital - Harvard Medical School).
Chia-Hua Lee
Email: chiahua-at-mit.edu
PhD student (Dept. of Material Science and Engineering). Chia-Hua obtained her B.S in Chemical Engineering from National Taiwan University in 2003 and M.S in Material Science from MIT in 2008. Chia-Hua joined the group in Summer ???08.
Jongho Lee
Email: leejnasa-at-mit.edu
PhD student (Dept. of Mechanical Engineering). Jongho hails from Seoul (Korea) where he obtained his B.S and M.S degree in Mechanical Engineering from Seoul National University in 2003 and 2007 respectively. He joined the group in Fall ???08.
Marco Cartas Ayala
Email: mcartas@mit.edu
In 2006 Marco graduated from the National Autonomous University of Mexico with a B.S. in Mechatronics Engineering, with Honours and highest GPA of his department. He completed his M.S. in Mechanical Engineering at MIT in 2008. His current research focuses on the development of microfluidic devices that can sort cells based on deformability. He is a recipient of the Mexican National Science and Technology Council Fellowship (CONACYT).
Sean O'Hern
Email: scohern-at-mit.edu
Masters student (Dept. of Mechanical Engineering). Sean obtained his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Missouri - Rolla (now Missouri University of Science and Technology) in 2007. Upon graduation, Sean worked for a design/build mechanical contractor in St. Louis, MO, for two years. He joined Prof Karnik's group in the Fall of 2009.
Tarun Kumar Jain
Email: tjain-at-mit.edu
Tarun is a Masters student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. He received his B.A. with Honors in Physics and Mathematics from NYU (New York University), during which time he did research on the onset of irreversibility in low Reynolds number particle suspensions, magnetic domain formation in soft magnetic ellipses, and the Casimir self-energy of black holes. He was also a recipient of the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship. Tarun joined the group in the Fall of 2009. His current research focuses on the development of high performance nanopores for DNA sizing.
Mohamed Raafat
Email: raafat-at-mit.edu
Mohamed obtained his BS and MS in Mechanical Engineering from Cairo University (Egypt) in 2003 and 2007, respectively. He joined Prof. Karnik's group in the Spring of 2008, and completed his MS in Mechanical Engineering from MIT in 2010. He is the holder of the International Fulbright Science and Technology Award (2007-present).
Jeffrey Karp (Harvard-MIT HST and Brigham and Women???s Hospital, Harvard Medical School)
Robert Langer (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Jing Kong (MassachusettsInstitute of Technology)
Carlos Aguilar (Lincoln Labs: Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Professor Krystyn Van Vliet (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Patricia Hibberd (Massachusetts General Hospital)
Nicolas G. Hadjiconstantinou