“…Dependeth the might of the chain.”
-5th Law of the Navy
Principal Investigator
Michael Daniele
Associate Professor
University Faculty Scholar
PhD, MATERIALS SCIENCE & ENGINEERING
BS, MATERIALS SCIENCE & ENGINEERING
Dr. Daniele is a member of the Faculty in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering at North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and investigator in the NSF Nanosystems Engineering Research Center for Advanced Self-Powered Systems of Integrated Sensors and Technologies — ASSIST (assist.ncsu.edu). With Dr. Stefano Menegatti, he founded the North Carolina Viral Vector Initiative in Research and Learning (NC-VVIRAL). He joined the faculty in 2015 from the U.S. Naval Research Lab, where he was a National Academy of Sciences Postdoctoral Associate and Jerome and Isabella Karle Distinguished Scholar. Dr. Daniele’s primary area of interest is the broad application of materials and systems engineering to monitor, mimic or augment biochemical processes and biological functions.
Postdoctoral Scholars
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Nooshin Zandi
PhD, Nanotechnology
Dr. Zandi works on tissue engineering and regenerative medicine.
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Mahshid Hosseini
PhD, Physics
Dr. Hosseini works on novel microdevices and biosensors for viral vector manufacturing.
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He Sun
PhD, Biomedical Engineering
Dr. Sun investigates biodegradable materials for bioelectronics fabrication.
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Rajendra P. Shukla
PhD, Biomedical Engineering
Dr. Shukla works on Electrochemical and Field-effect transistor based Biosensors.
Students
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Angélica F. Aroche
BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING
Angélica is graduate student working on the development of a microneedle extraction system.
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Halston Deal
BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING
Halston is a graduate student working on vascular microfluidic systems and wound healing.
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Jack Twiddy
BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING
Jack is a Doctoral Student interested in developing embedded sensor systems for electrochemical biosensing.
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Hannah Nissan
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
Hannah is a Graduate Student interested in biosensing and wearables. She is currently investigating the integration of microneedles with wearable biochemical sensors.
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Chris Sharkey
ELECTRICAL & COMPUTER ENGINEERING
Chris is a graduate student working on biosensor regeneration and integrated systems for health monitoring. Also a team member in the 2024 SensUs Student Competition!
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Kaila Peterson
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
Kaila is a graduate student interested in wearable sensing systems.
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Junhyeong Wang
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
Junhyeong is a graduate student working on label-free biosensors.
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Kirstie Queener
BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING
Kirstie is a graduate student studying sensor design and fabrication.
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Gabby Rusch
BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING
Gabby is a graduate student on utilizing peptide engineering and cell biology.
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Lina M. Acosta Pérez
BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING
Lina is a graduate student working with EGFET sensors for disease detection.
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Crystal Marie Collazo
BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING
Crystal is a graduate student interested in Gene Therapy biomanufacturing.
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Irfan Ismail
ELECTRICAL & COMPUTER ENGINEERING
Irfan is a graduate student working on biosensing and label-free detection.
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Yousif Shwetar
BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING
Yousif is a MD/PhD student interested in working on device fabrication and data science for medical applications.
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Max Yates
ELECTRICAL & COMPUTER ENGINEERING
Max works investigating microsystems for wearable and remote sensing.
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Stacy Ban
BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING
Stacy is an undergraduate student investigating microfluidics for wound healing.
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Bella Agusta
BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING
Bella is an undergraduate student working in the development of a microneedle systems.
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Mikey Spaulding
BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING
Mikey is an undergraduate student and team member in the 2024 SensUs Student Competition!
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Ashley Dehn
BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING
Ashley is an undergraduate student and team member in the 2024 SensUs Student Competition!
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Munish Nidadavolu
BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING
Munish is an undergraduate student and team member in the 2024 SensUs Student Competition!
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Jacob Linnabary
ELECTRICAL & COMPUTER ENGINEERING
Jacob is an undergraduate student and team member in the 2024 SensUs Student Competition!
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Ethan Cove
ELECTRICAL & COMPUTER ENGINEERING
Ethan is a graduate student working in the miniaturization of wearable systems.
Alumni
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Brendan completed his doctorate in Biomedical Engineering in 2023, and he currently works as a research engineer at Ortec, Inc. in South Carolina.
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Katie completed her doctorate in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering in 2023, and she currently works as a account representative at Ajinomoto Health & Nutrition NA in North Carolina.
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Mike completed his doctorate in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2023, and he currently works as a assistant teaching professor at UNC-Chapel Hill.
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Travis completed his masters in Biomedical Engineering in 2023.
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Dr. Lee served as a postdoc from 2019 to 2022.
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Srivatsan completed his doctoral work in Chemical Engineering, and he is currently a scientist in gene therapy development at BridgeBio.
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Grace earned her M.S. in Electrical & Computer Engineering, and she is now pursuing doctoral studies at Stanford Univeristy.
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Raphael completed his doctorate in Chemical Engineering in 2021 with Dr. Stefano Menegatti.
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Parthi served as a postdoc from 2019-2021, and he is currently a Senior Development Engineer at Sarcura GmbH.
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Chuck completed his Masters in Biomedical Engineering in 2020, and he currently works as a researcher at Duke University.
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Kevin completed his doctorate in Chemical Engineering in 2020 with Dr. Stefano Menegatti, and he currently works as a Supply Chain Engineer at Intel.
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Ashlyn completed her doctorate in Biomedical Engineering in 2020, and she currently works as a research fellow at Beckton-Dickinson in North Carolina.
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Kristina completed her doctorate in Biomedical Engineering in 2020 with Dr. Scott Magness, and she currently works as a researcher at Novo Nordisk in Denmark.
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Murat completed his doctorates in Electrical & Computer Engineering and Textiles in 2020, and he currently works as a researcher at Facebook VR in Washington.
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Peter completed his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering in 2020. with Dr. Alper Bozkurt.
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Patrick completed his doctorate in Biomedical Engineering in 2019, and he currently works as a researcher at Canon in Virginia.
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Vladimir served as a postdoc from 2016-2019, and he is currently an Assistant Professor at Florida International University.
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Teng served as a postdoc from 2015-2019, and he is currently a Research Assistant Professor at Duke University.
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Shilpa served as a postdoc from 2016-2018, and she is currently an Assistant Professor at Acharya Insititute of Technology.
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Ethan completed his Masters in Biomedical Engineering in 2017, and he is currently working at Biogen.
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Terrika completed her Masters in Biomedical Engineering in 2017, and she is currently working at Beckton-Dickinson.
Collaborators
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Dr. Stefano Menegatti
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Dr. Alper Bozkurt
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Dr. Ashley Brown
