Postdoctoral Scholars
Dr. Hyeongjoo Row
PhD, Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology (2022)
Email: hrow@berkeley.edu
Dr. Manish Gupta (Miller Fellow)
PhD, Chemistry, University of Chicago (2025)
Email: manishg@berkeley.edu
Dr. Rachana Deven Somaiya
PhD, Neuroscience, Virginia Tech (2022)
Co-advisor: Prof. Marla Feller
Email: somaiya@berkeley.edu
Dr. Fangming Xie
PhD, Biophysics, University of California San Diego (2021)
Co-advisor: Prof. Larry Zipursky
Email: fmxie@ucla.edu
Graduate Students
Joshua B. Fernandes (2021-)
BS, Chemical Engineering, University of Maryland College Park
Email: jbfern@berkeley.edu
Kushal Nimkar (2021-)
BS, Chemical Engineering, University of California Los Angeles
Email: kushalnimkar@berkeley.edu
Dario Tommasini (2022-)
BS, Neuroscience, University of California Los Angeles
Email: dtommasini@berkeley.edu
Jafar Farhadi (2023-)
BS and MS, Mechanical Engineering, University of Tehran
Email: jfarhadi@berkeley.edu
Sanket Biswas (2025-)
BS, Chemical Engineering, Sant Longowal Institute of Engineering and Technology
MS, Chemical Engineering, The University of British Columbia
Email: sanket_biswas@berkeley.edu
Staff Scientists
Amogh Changavi
Alumni and Last Known Whereabouts
Saumya Jain Postdoctoral Scholar (primary advisor: Larry Zipursky)
Current Affiliation: Assistant Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology
Alhad Deshpande Graduate Student (Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering)
Thesis: Odd Transport Phenomena of Chiral Fluids
Joshua Hahn Graduate Student (Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering)
Current Affiliation: Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Washington
Thesis: A Molecular Perspective on the Evolution of Cell Types in the Vertebrate Retina
Salwan Butrus Graduate Student (Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering)
Current Affiliation: Computational Biologist, Curve Biosciences
Thesis: Single-Cell Molecular Profiling of Experience-Dependent Cell Type Development in Mouse Retina and Cortex
Undergraduate Alumni
Ravtej Kaur BS, Chemical Engineering (2023)
Current Affiliation: Graduate Student, Princeton University
Xiaoqi Sun BS, Chemical Engineering (2022)
Current Affiliation: Graduate Student, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jason Hou BS, Chemical Engineering (2022)
Current Affiliation: Analytics, BP
Srikant Sagireddy BS, Chemical Engineering (2021)
Current Affiliation: Graduate Student, Stanford University