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Principal Investigator
📧 tsutsui@ucr.edu
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Hideaki is an Associate Professor of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of California, Riverside. He is also a participating faculty member of the Department of Bioengineering and the UCR Stem Cell Center. He received a B.E. from the University of Tokyo (2001), a M.S. from the University of California, San Diego (2003), and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles (2009), all in Mechanical Engineering. He then conducted postdoctoral research during 2009-2011 at the Center for Cell Control and the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department at UCLA. His current research interests include low-cost medical and agricultural biosensors, and macro- and micro-fluidic tools for cell-based biomanufacturing. He is a recipient of a Grand Challenges Explorations Phase I Award from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (2012) and a Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) Award from National Science Foundation (2017). He was named the 2018 Class of Influential Researchers by Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research. He serves on the editorial board of SLAS Technology.
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Previous Members
Postdocs
Daniel Nampe, 2017, Postdoctoral Scholar
Graduate Students
Carys Layton, 2024, Ph.D. ME
Jenna Roper, 2024, Ph.D. BIEN
Chia-Wei Liu, 2024, Ph.D. ME
Sidharth Modha, 2022, Ph.D. BIEN
Jianhou Zhang, 2020, MS ME
Brent Kalish, 2019, Ph.D. ME
Jessica Wen, 2016, Ph.D. BIEN
Carlos Castro, 2016, Ph.D. ME
Daniel Nampe, 2016, Ph.D. BIEN
Brent Kalish, 2014, MS ME
Daniel Nampe, 2012, MS BIEN
Undergraduate Students
Sean Wurtz, 2024, BS ME
Andrew Pham, 2023, BS Biology
Crystal Yang, 2022, BS Chemistry
Nicholas Lee, 2022, BS Biology
Jose Garcia, 2022, BS BIEN
Christopher Alvarez, 2020, BS ME
Hussein Chamouni, 2020, BS ME
Jeanette Valencia, 2019, BS ME
Alexandra Rodriguez, 2019, BS ME
Rei Tamaoka, 2018, BS ME
Agustin Moran Carmona, 2018, BS ME
Karen Bohorquez, 2017, BS ME
Ronak Joshi, 2017, BS Neuroscience
Jenna Roper, 2017, BS BIEN
James Luong, 2017, BS ME
Keith Kuboshima, 2016, BS ME
Joshua Karam, 2016, BS BIEN
Mick Tan, 2016, BS ME
Chad Beaudette, 2015, BS ME
Cindy Rosillo, 2015, BS ME
Brent Kalish, 2013, BS ME
Veronica Boulos, 2013, BS BIEN
John Yoo, 2013, BS BIEN
Exchange Students and Visitors
Sean Connolly, 2022, CIRM Bridges Intern, California State University San Bernardino
Jianhou Zhang, 2017, GPP-E Exchange Student, Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Shuyang Fang, 2016, GPP-E Exchange Student, Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Maribel Gonzalez, 2015, CIRM Bridges Intern, California State University, San Bernardino
Fernando Rivera-ServĂn de la Mora, 2014, MSRIP Program, Universidad AutĂłnoma de Baja California
Ricardo C. Paredes-González, 2014, MSRIP Program, Tecnológico de Monterrey