“…Dependeth the might of the chain.”
-5th Law of the Navy
Principal Investigator
Michael Daniele
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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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.
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Jack Twiddy
PhD, Biomedical Engineering
Dr. Twiddy works on developing embedded sensor systems for biosensing.
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Kirstie Queener
PhD, Biomedical Engineering
Dr. Queener works on wearable elastomeric sensor design and fabrication.
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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Hannah Nissan
ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER 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 AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING
Chris is a graduate student working on biosensor regeneration and integrated systems for health monitoring.
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Kaila Peterson
ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING
Kaila is a graduate student interested in wearable sensing systems.
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Junhyeong Wang
ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING
Junhyeong is a graduate student working on label-free biosensors.
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I Mohamed Irfan
ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING
Irfan is a graduate student working on biosensing and label-free detection.
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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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Elizabeth Byrnes
BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING
Elizabeth is a graduate student studying microfluidic systems.
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Taylor Pleines
BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING
Taylor is a graduate student working on affinity ligand development for lentivirus purification.
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Seada Sloboda
BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING
Seada is a graduate student working with bacterial nanocellulose for the food engineering field.
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Ashley Dehn
ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING
Ashley is a graduate student working on the development on continuous biosensors.
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Lily Ro
BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING
Lily is an undergraduate student and team member in the 2026 SensUs Student Competition!
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Lauren Mabe
BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING
Lauren is an undergraduate student and captain of the 2026 SenseNC team.
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Ameerah Abazid
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
Ameerah is an undergraduate student and team member of the 2026 SensUs Team!
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Anna Shay
CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
Anna is an undergraduate student working on enhancing the attributes of MNC scaffolds.
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Emma Willis
MATERIAL SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
Emma is an undergraduate student working with Microbial nanocellulose scaffolds.
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Noah Anderson
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
Noah is an undergraduate student working EGFET sensors.
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Ratan Gundami
ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING
Ratan is a master’s student working in embedded systems
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Shivashanker Swaminathan
ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING
Shivashanker is a master’s student working on embedded systems design.
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Jai Ramani
COMPUTER SCIENCE
Jai is a master’s student decoding AAV signatures from sensor data using ML. -
Ebenezer Amare
BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING
Ebenezer is an undergraduate student and team member in the 2026 SensUs Student Competition!
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Clint Powers
BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING
Clint is an undergraduate student and member of the 2026 SenseNC Team.
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Sahiti Mudireddy
ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING
Sahiti is an undergraduate student and member of the 2026 SenseNC Team. -
Akshay Balasubramanian
BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING
Akshay is an undergraduate student and member of the 2026 SenseNC Team. -
Diyora Akbarova
BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
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Biruk Kebede
ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING
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Nicolas Anzola
BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING
Nicolas an undergraduate student and team member on the 2026 SenseNC team. -
Malcolm Cormier
ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING
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Juliana Gelfuso
BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING
Juliana is an undergraduate student working on wearable device.
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Chiara Messex
BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING
Chiara is an undergraduate student working on biomaterial synthesis.
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Ford Bryson
ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING
Ford is working on embedded sensor systems and firmware design for biosensing.
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Hayley Marlowe
CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
Hayley is an undergraduate student working with microfluidic systems.
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Ianna Baum
BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING
Ianna is an undergraduate student working on biomaterial synthesis.
Alumni
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Kirstie completed her doctorate in Biomedical Engineering in 2026.
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Jacob completed hir bachelor’s in Electrical Engineering in 2026.
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Bella completed her bachelor’s in Biomedical Engineering in 2025.
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Jack completed his doctorate in Biomedical Engineering in 2025.
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Gabby completed his masters in Biomedical Engineering in 2025.
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Mahshid now works at Novartis.
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Halston completed his doctorate in Biomedical Engineering in 2024.
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Praveen currently works as an R&D engineer at Medtronic.
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Ethan completed his masters in Electrical Engineering in 2024.
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Max completed his undergraduate degree in Electrical & Computer Engineering, and is now pursuing doctoral studies at Stanford University.
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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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McKenna is currently a doctoral student at Georgia Tech.
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Sydney currently works as a process engineer at Novo Nordisk.
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Matthew is now a Software Engineer at Apple.
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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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Omar is currently a graduate student at MIT.
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Madison is now a Medical Student at Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine.
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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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Veronica received doctor of medicine in 2022 from East Carolina University.
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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.
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Sidharta currently works as a technical representative for Revvity.
Collaborators
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![biopep-collab]()
Dr. Stefano Menegatti
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![alper-collab]()
Dr. Alper Bozkurt
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Dr. Ashley Brown
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![Pavlidis]()
Dr. Spyridon Pavlidis
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![Lobaton]()
Dr. Edgar Lobaton
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![Sode]()
Dr. Koji Sode
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![Gluck]()
Dr. Jessica Gluck
