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Past members

Feel free to drop me an email (mscheung1@gmail.com) and tell me where you are now.

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DOE SULI Trainees

  • Briana Sobecks (Chem Eng, UIUC, Summer 2021)

  • Jose’ Villalobos (Physics, UT San Antonio, Spring 2022)

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DOE CCI Trainees

  • Ian Gildea (Eng, Tidewater Community College, Spring 2022)

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University of Houston 

Postdocs

  • Prof. Dirar Homouz (June 2007- May 2009). Associate Professor, Khalifa University (KUSTAR) in Abu Dhabi, UAE.

  • Dr. Balamurugan (Bala) Desinghu (February 2012-July 2014). Scientific Computing Consultant, Computation Institute, University of Chicago.

  • Dr. Swarnendu Tripathi (August 2012- March 2016). Postdoctoral Fellow of the Computational Cancer Biology Training Program (2014-2016). Scientist, Medical College of Wisconsin.

  • Prof. Victor M.-Y. Tsai (2014-2015) Assistant Professor at Tamkang University, Taiwan.

  • Dr. Oleg Starovoytov (2015-2016) Consultant

  • Dr. Jaebeom Han, (2018-2020) Research staff, University of Delaware.

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Graduate Students

Ph.D. students

  • Dr. Antonios Samiotakis (UH Physics, Ph.D. May 2011). Group Lead & Senior Scientist, Zymeworks Inc.

  • Prof. Qian Wang (UH Physics, Ph.D. May 2012). Assistant Professor at the University of Science and Technology of China.

  • Dr. Pengzhi Zhang (UH Physics, Ph.D. June 2016). Data Scientist, Methodist Hospital.

  • Prof. Fabio Zegarra (UH Physics, Ph.D. December 2018). Associate Professor at La Universidad Nacional Tecnológica de Lima Sur, Peru.

  • Dr. Millad Ghane (UH Computer Science, Ph.D. December 2019). Senior Engineer, Samsung

  • Dr. Jake Ezerski (UH Physics, Ph.D. May 2020). Mathematics Specialist, Start-up Clothing Tech LLC

  • Dr. Yossi Eliaz (UH Physics, Ph.D. September, 2020). Algorithm Research and Data Scientist, NRGene Ltd.

  • Dr. Andrei Gasic (UH Physics, Ph.D. October, 2020). NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, Rice University

  • Dr. Jacob Tinnin (UH Physics, Ph.D. October 2021). Research Scientist, National Security Agency

  • Dr. James Liman (Rice Bioengineering, Ph.D. December 2022). Consultant, Ernest & Young), EY-Parthenon

  • Dr. Jules Nde (UW Physics, Ph.D. May 2024).

 

Master students

  • Guoxiong Su (Physics, M.S. June 2012).

  • Fabio Zegarra (Physics, M.S. December 2012).

  • Jianfa Chen (Physics, M.S. December 2014).

  • Mohammadmehdi (Ezzat) Ezzatabadipour (Physics, M.S. December 2015)

  • Hoa Trinh (UH, Physics, 2016-2018)

  • Atrayee Sarkar (UH Physics, 2020-2021)

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Undergraduate Students

  • Marc Gonzalez (Physics, Summer 2007) UT Austin Graduate Student in Mechanical Engineering.

  • Byron Hoffman (Junior, Physics, Summer 2008) UH Graduate Student in Physics.

  • Nathianiel Morgan (Junior, Physics, Fall 2008)

  • Faheem Shahid (Junior, Mech. Eng., Summer 2009)

  • Rizwan Tai (Junior, Political Sci., Summer 2009)

  • Syed Razavi (Junior, Chem Eng. Summer 2009)

  • Tyler Quarton (Sophomore, Biochemistry. Fall 2009)

  • Ian Mitchell (Junior, Physics, SURF, Summer 2010) UH Graduate Student in Physics

  • Francis Tee (Junior, Biology and Biochemistry, Fall 2010)

  • Megan Scoppa (Senior, Biochemistry, NSF REU, Spring 2009-Spring 2011) Lab specialist. Chemistry teacher at Kingwood high school.

  • Sana Mateen (Junior, Chemical Engineering, PURS Fall 2011).

  • Ashlynne Monroe (Junior, Health Science, Spring 2010-Spring 2011).

  • Gabriela Bernardes (Sophormore, Mechanical Engineering, Summer 2011-Spring 2012).

  • Francis de Dios (Physics senior, PURS Fellow, Summer 2012-Spring 2013) UT Dallas graduate student in MSE.

  • Lionel Flores (Physics junior, NSF REU Fellow, CTBP FIS Fellow, Summer 2012-Summer 2013)

  • Nicole Davidson (Physics, junior, CTBP FIS Fellow, Summer 2013)

  • Johnathan (Yoni) Hankin (Physics sophomore, NSF REU Fellow, Fall 2012-Spring 2014)

  • Lenaya Flowers (Physics, CTBP FIS Fellow, Summer 2014-Fall 2015) U of North Texas graduate student in physics.

  • Billy Nisbett (Physics freshman, Summer 2014) U of Houston graduate student in physics

  • Sarai Vargas (Biochemistry, Fall 2015-Spring 2016) Receipt of the CPRIT Computational Cancer Undergraduate Fellowship; graduate student in Nutrition

  • Rodney Helm (Physics, 2014-2016, CTBP FIS Fellow) Mathematics teacher at Marshall High School

  • Marissa Soto (Physics, Noyce Scholar, Summer 2016-December 2017) Physics teacher at Waltrip High School

  • Caleb Daugherty (Physics, FIS Fellow, Summer 2016-December 2017) Avionics Engineer at NanoRacks LLC

  • Nate C. Jennings (Carnegie Mellon University, Summer 2019)

  • Lucas Babel, B.Sci. University of Houston (Physics, CTBP FIS Fellow, Summer 2018-Spring 2020).

  • Michelle Le ( Junior, Chemical Engineering, UH, Summer 2020).

 

Former high school summer interns

  • Joy Chou (Senior, Westbury Christian School, Fall 2007)

  • Hari Nair (George Bush High School, Quarknet Summer Fellow, Summer 2008)

  • David Jiang (Welch Summer Scholar Program Summer 2009). Rice University undergraduate student in Bioengineering.

  • Charlie Cheng (Kempner High School Summer 2009)

  • Vincent Su (Bellaire High School Summer 2009). Stanford University undergraduate student in computer science.

  • Albert Lee (High school graduate intern, Fall 2010-Spring 2011) UC Berkeley undergraduate student in Physics.

  • Sam Nelson (Summer 2012)

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