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Principal Investigator 

Dae Kun Hwang

Associate Professor

Chemical Engineering

dkhwang@torontomu.ca

Dae Kun Hwang (Rilla), PhD, P.Eng

Canada Research Chair

Massey Ryerson Fellow at Massey College, Univeristy of Toronto

Associate Professor

Department of Chemical Engineering

Toronto Metropolitan University 

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Education
Ph.D. McGill University, Montreal, Canada 2006
MSc. McGill University, Montreal, Canada 2002
B.Eng. Chosun University, Kwang-Ju, South Korea 1998

 

Professional Experience

Assistant Professor, Ryerson University, Canada, 2011 - 2016

Assistant Professor, University of Saskatchewan, Canada, 2009 - 2011
Postdoctoral Fellow, MIT, Cambridge, USA Nov. 2006 - Feb. 2009

Postdoctoral Fellows

Graduate students and research associates

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Reza Aghazadeh

PhD student (Chemical Eng.)

reza.aghazadeh@torontomu.ca

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Cell culture using micro carriers

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Yi Ren

PhD student (Chemical Eng)

yiren1@torontomu.ca

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Fuel Cell membrane

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Shengxi Lan

PhD student (Chemical Eng)

Shengxi.lan@torontomu.ca

 

Hydrogel-based detection

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Bowo Owaje

MASc (Biomedical Eng.)

mowoaje@torontomu.ca

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Quantum beads-based detection

Undergraduate students

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Nicole Aracama

BEng Candidate

Chemical Engineering

naracama@torontomu.ca

Madeline Bryan

BEng Candidate

Chemical Engineering (MacMaster Univ.)

bryanm14@mcmaster.ca

Alumni

Postdoctoral researchers 

​Sinthuran Jegatheeswaran (City of Toronto)

Basel Khader (AUE)

Daniel Foster (UBC)

Marziye Mirbagheri (Paraza PHarma Inc.)

Minggan Li (ChipCare Corporation,Toronto)

Byeong-Ui Moon (NRC, Montreal)

Graduate students

Omar Rahman (University of Toronto)

Yifan Liu (Dalian Institution of Chemical Physics)

Ahmad Manzoor

Shyan Thompson

Seungyoon Han (AMD)

Bethany Hughes (Discovery Zone at Ryerson)

Navid Hakimi (University of Toronto)

Kelvin Guobadia (EPCOR Water Services Inc, Edmonton)

Nasim Hashemi (GE Healthcare)

Morteza Jayhani (Ryerson iBEST)

Dehi Joung

Lauren Romita (Integrity Analyst, JANA Corporation)

Chitra Das

Undergraduate students

2023 class: Madison Fernandez (Stem Cell Technologies)

2022 class:  Adrian Nash (Stem Cell Technologies)

Medical school: Kenneth Choi (Queen's University), Dental school: Seyed Riazi (University of Pittsburgh), Emily Fong (James Cook University of Australia)

Gradate Schools: Mouhita Humayun (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Seoungyoon (Ryerson), Parnian Saberi (University of Toronto)

Sheema Khan, Hoang Vu Pham, Sara Moghareh Dehkordy, Du Jin, Hansol Na, Tony Lam, Jing Feng, Peter Schalm, Heejung Lee, Jenny Nguyen

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