Sing Group

Principal Investigator


Dr. Charles E. Sing

Charles E. Sing

2024-Present: Professor and James M. and Karen S. Morris Faculty Scholar, UIUC Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

2020-2024: Associate Professor, UIUC Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

2014-2020: Assistant Professor, UIUC Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

2012-2014: International Institute for Nanotechnology Postdoctoral Fellow, Northwestern University

2008-2012: Ph.D. Materials Science and Engineering/PPST, MIT

2008: M.S. Macromolecular Science and Engineering, Case Western Reserve University

2004-2008: B.S.E. Polymer Science and Engineering, Case Western Reserve University

Postdocs


Graduate Students


Hyeonmin Jeong

hj20 at Illinois dot edu
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department, UIUC
2019 B.S. Chemical Engineering, Purdue University

Tsai-Wei Lin

twlin2 at Illinois dot edu
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department, UIUC
2019 M.S. Chemical Engineering, National Taiwan University
2017 B.S. Chemical Engineering, National Taiwan University

Dejuante Walker

dww4 at Illinois dot edu
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department, UIUC
Sloan Scholar, GEM University Fellow
2020 B.S. Chemical Engineering, California State University, Long Beach
Minor: Applied Math

Haisu Kang

haisuk2 at Illinois dot edu
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department, UIUC
2021 M.S. Chemical Engineering, Pusan National University
2019 B.S. Organic Materials Science And Engineering, Pusan National University

Yun-Ju Chen

yunju2 at Illinois dot edu
Materials Science and Engineering Department, UIUC
2020 M.S. Materials Science and Engineering, National Taiwan University
2018 B.S. Materials Science and Engineering, National Taiwan University

Siri Phuangthong

sp55 at Illinois dot edu
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department, UIUC
2021 B.S. Chemistry and Physics, Illinois College

Min-Hsien Lin

ml154 at Illinois dot edu
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department, UIUC
2017 M.S. Chemical Engineering, National Taiwan University
2015 B.S. Chemical Engineering, National Taiwan University

Undergraduates


Luke Brann

Alumni


Graduate Students

Dr. Tyler Lytle

2019 Ph.D. Chemistry, UIUC
2014 B.S. Professional Chemistry and Physics, University of Evansville
Now: Technical Solutions Engineer at Epic

Dr. Kate Dahlke

2019 Ph.D. Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, UIUC
CBI Training Program
2014 B.S. Chemical Engineering, Iowa State University
Minors: Math
Now: Instructional Faculty at University of Wisconsin (Link)

Dr. Charlie Young

2021 Ph.D. Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, UIUC
3M Fellow
2016 B.S. Chemical Engineering, University of Connecticut
Minors: Math, Chemistry
Now: Postdoctoral Research Associate at Los Alamos National Laboratory

Dr. Jason Madinya

2022 Ph.D. Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department, UIUC
NSF GRFP, Sloan Scholar
2016 B.S. Chemical Engineering, Florida State University
Now: Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Delaware

Dr. Liliana Bello

2023 Ph.D. Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department, UIUC
SURGE Fellow, Illinois Sloan Scholar, GEM Johnson & Johnson Fellow
2018 B.S. Chemical Engineering, University of Florida
Minor: Packaging Science
Now: Consulting Associate in Data Science at Exponent

Dr. Tianyuan Pan

2023 Ph.D. Materials Science and Engineering Department, UIUC
Mavis Future Faculty Fellow
2018 B.S. Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University
Now: Senior Research and Development Engineer at Polymaker

Dr. Ashley Knoerdel

2023 Ph.D. Biophysics and Quantitative Biology Program, UIUC
2018 B.A. Biological Physics, Washington and Jefferson College
Now: Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Michael Marvin (M.S. 2016)

Gary Ong

Linling Miao

Michael Samp

Postdocs

Dr. Mithun Radhakrishna

2014-2016
Now: Assistant Professor at IIT Gandhinagar

Dr. Sarit Dutta

2018-2021
Now: Computational Researcher at Laboratoire de Chimie, ENS Lyon

Dr. Whitney Blocher McTigue

2020-2022
Now: Assistant Professor at Lehigh University (Link)

Dr. Neha Tyagi

2022 – 2024

2021 Ph.D. Biophysics, Indian Institute of Science
2015 M.Ss. Chemistry, Banasthali University
2012 B.Sc. Chemistry Hons., Delhi University

Now: Postdoctoral Researcher at Northwestern University

Undergraduates

Christina Mardyla (2015-2016)

June Qian (2016-2018)

Jing Zhao (2017-2019)

Anthony Salazar (2017-2019)

Natalia Markiewicz (2018-2020)

Sejal Karwa (2020-2021)

Tiffany Yen (2021)

Charles Carroll (2022-2023)

Chantal Korde (2022-2023)

Kyle Boone (2024)