
Sing Group
Principal Investigator

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
Graduate Students

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

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

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

Benjamin Chiu
bchiu7 at Illinois dot edu
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department, UIUC
2024 B.S. Chemical Engineering, Computer Science and Math, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Undergraduates
Luke Brann
Maximus McElyea
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. 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