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Andrea R. Tao

Brief Bio
E-mail: atao_at_eng.ucsd.edu
Office: Structural and Materials Engineering, 244K
Phone: (858) 822-4237

A.B. in Chemistry and Physics, Harvard
Ph.D. in Chemistry, UC Berkeley

 

• Professor & Vice Chair of Education, NanoEngineering
• Deputy Director  |  San Diego Nanotechnology Infrastructure: sdni.ucsd.edu
• IRG1 Lead  |  UC San Diego MRSEC: mrsec.ucsd.edu
• Founding Faculty | UC San Diego Institute for Materials Discovery & Design: imdd.ucsd.edu 

Lab Manager

Jacqueline Lampert
B.S. in Chemistry, Cal Poly Pomona
Email: jalampert@eng.ucsd.edu
Phone: (626) 660-4642

Group Members

Bin Wang
Post-Doctoral Researcher
B.S. in Applied Chemistry, Central South University
M.S. in Chemical Engineering, Fudan University
Ph.D. in Chemistry, UC Davis

 

 

Yu Xie
NanoEngineering
B.S. in Materials Science, ShanghaiTech University

 

 

Wade Shipley
Materials Science
B.S. in Chemical Engineering, California State University Long Beach

 

 

Yufei Wang
Materials Science
B.S. in Chemistry, minor in Math, Davidson College

 

 

Alexander Fuqua
B.S. in Materials Science, UCLA

 

 

 

 

America Mendoza Rascon
B.Sc. in Nanotechnology, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

 

 

 

Undergraduate Researchers

Emily Infante
B.S. in Biochemistry, UCSD
(expected 2024)

 

 

James Young
B.S. in Computer Science with Specialization in Bioinformatics, UCSD
(expected 2025)

 

Zachary Yam
B.S. in Chemical Engineering, UCSD
(expected 2024)

 

 

 

High School Researchers

Rishika Kulkarni

 

Group Alums

• Elora Ocampo (B.S. in Chemical Engineering) – Proctor & Gamble
• Kathy On (M.S. in Chemistry) – NanoImaging Services
• Jonathan Chen (B.S. in Neuroscience)- Yale, graduate student in Bioengineering
• Vivian Li (B.S. in Chemical Engineering) 
• Marvin Lav (B.S. in Chemical Engineering)
• Wilson Wong (B.S. in Chemical Engineering) – Fluor 
• Bo Gao (Post-doc 2009-2013)
• Yahya Alvi (B.S. in NanoEngineering, 2013; M.S. in NanoEngineering, 2014)
• David Rosen (B.S. in NanoEngineering, 2013; NE Dept. Award of Excellence; M.S. in NanoEngineering, 2014)
• Vincent Li (B.S. in Chemical Engineering, 2014; Huppert Award) – Georgia Tech, grad student in Chemical Engineering
• Melissa Wette (B.S. in NanoEngineering, 2014; NE Dept. Award of Excellence)- Stanford, graduate student in Materials Science
• Nathan Velez (B.S. in NanoEngineering, 2014) – UC Berkeley, graduate student in Materials Science
• Charles Ngo (B.S. in Chemical Engineering, 2014)
• Kargal Gurunatha (Ph.D. in Chemistry, CEMES-CNRS in Toulouse)
• Nimai Mehta (M.S. in NanoEngineering, 2014)
• Brandon Marin (M.S. in NanoEngineering, 2014)
• Tarah Sullivan (M.S. in NanoEngineering, 2014)
• Andrea Rodarte (Ph.D. in Physics, 2014) – Sandia National Laboratories
• Madhura Som (M.S. in NanoEngineering, 2015)
• Darwin Zwissler (M.S. in NanoEngineering, 2016)
• Sarrah Marvi (M.S. in Chemical Engineering, 2016)
• Eric Brown (M.S. in NanoEngineering, 2016)
• Eduardo Lupi (B.S. in NanoEngineering, 2016) – UC Berkeley, grad student in Mat Sci
• Tyler Dill (Ph.D. in NanoEngineering, 2017) – Illumina
• Whitney Bryks (Ph.D. in NanoEngineering, 2017) – Intel
• Matthew Rozin (Ph.D. in Materials Science, 2017)
• Stephen Palani (M.S. in NanoEngineering, 2017) – OHSU, grad student
• Reiko Liu (M.S. in Chemical Engineering, 2017)
• Stephanie Smith (B.S. in NanoEngineering and Chemistry, 2017) – UCSD, grad student in Nano
• Matthew Tse (Rutgers/REU mentor, Summer 2017)
• Zandra Rojo (B.S. in NanoEngineering, 2017) – University of Washington, grad student in Mat Sci
• Oanh Nguyen (B.S. in NanoEngineering, 2017)
• Aidan Lucas (NanoEngineering, Fall 2017-Summer 2018)
• Erick Alvarado (Chemical Engineering, Winter 2018-Summer 2018)
• Samuel Spraker (M.S. in NanoEngineering, 2018) – Intel
• Matthew Creyer (M.S. in NanoEngineering, 2019)
• Mi Do (NanoEngineering, Spring 2019-present)
• Emmanuel Rojas (ENLACE undergraduate intern, Summer 2019)
• Axel Gaona (ENLACE undergraduate intern, Summer 2019)
• Lauren Hoffman (M.S. in Chemical Engineering, 2019)
• Riddhi Ananth (B.S. in Chemistry, 2020) – Northwestern, Ph.D. program
• Jake Bilyk (M.S. in Materials Science, 2021)
• Beatrice Jeffries (B.S. in Mathematics and Physics, 2022 École Polytechnique)
• Diana Sanchez Ramírez (ENLACE undergraduate intern, Summer 2022)
• Maria Garcia (ENLACE undergraduate intern, Summer 2022)
• Sean Garner (Ph.D. in Materials Science, 2022) – Apple, Engineer
• Yuan Zheng (Ph.D. in Materials Science, 2022) – ASM, Senior Process Engineer
• Sha Wu (M.S. in Materials Science, 2023)