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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

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

 

  • 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

Rand Kingsford
M.S. in Chemistry, University of Utah
B.S. in Chemistry, University of Utah
Email: rkingsford@ucsd.edu

 

 

 

Postdoctoral Researchers

Shalaka Varshney
Nano Engineering
Ph.D. in Chemistry, Ariel University
M.Tech. in Nanotechnology, University of Rajasthan
B.Tech. in Nanotechnology, University of Rajasthan

 


Graduate Researchers

Alexander Fuqua
Nano Engineering
B.S. in Materials Engineering, UCLA

 

 

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

 

 

 

Yu Xie
Nano Engineering
B.S. in Materials Science, ShanghaiTech University

 

 

 

Mohd. Sahil Akhtar
Chemical Engineering
B. Tech in Chemical Engineering, NIT in Karnataka, India

 

 

Undergraduate Researchers

Austin Birch
B.S. in Nano Engineering, UCSD
(expected 2025)

 

 

 

Joelle Chien
B.S. in Nano Engineering, UCSD
(expected 2025)

 

 

 

Yutong She
B.S. in Biochemistry, UCSD
(expected 2025)

 

 

 

Fiona Liang
B.S. in Pharmacological Chemistry, UCSD
(expected 2026)

 

 

 

High School Researchers

Rishika Kulkarni
Francis Parker School

 

 

 

Group Alums

  • Shayan Mukherjee (NanoEngineering, Summer 2024)
  • Lucy Huang (NanoEngineering, Summer 2024)
  • Jacqueline Lampert (Lab Manager, 2024) – University of California Irvine, Ph.D. program
  • Emily Infante (B.S. in Biochemistry, 2024)
  • Zachary Yam (B.S. in Chemical Engineering, 2024)
  • Bin Wang (Postdoctoral Researcher, 2024) – University of Michigan, Postdoc
  • James Young (Nanoengineering, Summer 2022 to Fall 2023)
  • Sha Wu (M.S. in Materials Science, 2023)
  • Yuan Zheng (Ph.D. in Materials Science, 2022) – ASM, Senior Process Engineer
  • Sean Garner (Ph.D. in Materials Science, 2022) – Apple, Engineer
  • Maria Garcia (ENLACE undergraduate intern, Summer 2022)
  • Diana Sanchez Ramírez (ENLACE undergraduate intern, Summer 2022)
  • Beatrice Jeffries (B.S. in Mathematics and Physics, 2022 École Polytechnique)
  • Jake Bilyk (M.S. in Materials Science, 2021)
  • Riddhi Ananth (B.S. in Chemistry, 2020) – Northwestern, Ph.D. program
  • Lauren Hoffman (M.S. in Chemical Engineering, 2019)
  • Axel Gaona (ENLACE undergraduate intern, Summer 2019)
  • Emmanuel Rojas (ENLACE undergraduate intern, Summer 2019)
  • Mi Do (NanoEngineering, Spring 2019-present)
  • Matthew Creyer (M.S. in NanoEngineering, 2019)
  • Su-Wen Hsu (Ph.D. in NanoEngineering, 2014; Postdoctoral
  • Samuel Spraker (M.S. in NanoEngineering, 2018) – Intel
  • Erick Alvarado (Chemical Engineering, Winter 2018-Summer 2018)
  • Aidan Lucas (NanoEngineering, Fall 2017-Summer 2018)
  • Oanh Nguyen (B.S. in NanoEngineering, 2017)
  • Zandra Rojo (B.S. in NanoEngineering, 2017) – University of Washington, grad student in Mat Sci
  • Matthew Tse (Rutgers/REU mentor, Summer 2017)
  • Stephanie Smith (B.S. in NanoEngineering and Chemistry, 2017) – UCSD, grad student in Nano
  • Reiko Liu (M.S. in Chemical Engineering, 2017)
  • Stephen Palani (M.S. in NanoEngineering, 2017) – OHSU, grad student
  • Matthew Rozin (Ph.D. in Materials Science, 2017)
  • Whitney Bryks (Ph.D. in NanoEngineering, 2017) – Intel
  • Tyler Dill (Ph.D. in NanoEngineering, 2017) – Illumina
  • Eduardo Lupi (B.S. in NanoEngineering, 2016) – UC Berkeley, grad student in Mat Sci
  • Eric Brown (M.S. in NanoEngineering, 2016)
  • Sarrah Marvi (M.S. in Chemical Engineering, 2016)
  • Darwin Zwissler (M.S. in NanoEngineering, 2016)
  • Madhura Som (M.S. in NanoEngineering, 2015)
  • Andrea Rodarte (Ph.D. in Physics, 2014) – Sandia National Laboratories
  • Tarah Sullivan (M.S. in NanoEngineering, 2014)
  • Brandon Marin (M.S. in NanoEngineering, 2014)
  • Nimai Mehta (M.S. in NanoEngineering, 2014)
  • Kargal Gurunatha (Ph.D. in Chemistry, CEMES-CNRS in Toulouse)
  • Charles Ngo (B.S. in Chemical Engineering, 2014)
  • Nathan Velez (B.S. in NanoEngineering, 2014) – UC Berkeley, graduate student in Materials Science
  • Melissa Wette (B.S. in NanoEngineering, 2014; NE Dept. Award of Excellence)- Stanford, graduate student in Materials Science
  • Vincent Li (B.S. in Chemical Engineering, 2014; Huppert Award) – Georgia Tech, grad student in Chemical Engineering
  • David Rosen (B.S. in NanoEngineering, 2013; NE Dept. Award of Excellence; M.S. in NanoEngineering, 2014)
  • Yahya Alvi (B.S. in NanoEngineering, 2013; M.S. in NanoEngineering, 2014)
  • Bo Gao (Post-doc 2009-2013)
  • Wilson Wong (B.S. in Chemical Engineering) – Fluor
  • Marvin Lav (B.S. in Chemical Engineering)
  • Vivian Li (B.S. in Chemical Engineering)
  • Jonathan Chen (B.S. in Neuroscience)- Yale, graduate student in Bioengineering
  • Kathy On (M.S. in Chemistry) – NanoImaging Services
  • Elora Ocampo (B.S. in Chemical Engineering) – Proctor & Gamble