Dr. Dae Kun Hwang, P.Eng
Toronto Metropolitan University
Department of Chemical Engineering
iBEST St. Michael's Hospital
Principal Investigator
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
Sinthuran Jegatheeswaran
Chemical Engineering, PhD
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C elegans warm encapsulation
Membrane patterning
Basel Khader
Chemical Engineering, PhD
Co-supervised with Dr. Waldman. S.
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Bioactive glass hydrogel compositee
Graduate students and research associates
Yifan Liu
PhD student (Chemical Eng.)
Co-supervised with Dr. Zarrin
Mechanical Engineering, MASc
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Highly-ordered 2D materials
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Omar Rahman
MSc Student (Biomedical Eng)
Biology, BSc
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Sieved-microwells for cancer spheroid cutlure
Shyan Thompson
Shengxi Lan
Undergraduate students
Christian Volpe
Jason Li
Alumni
Postdoctoral researchers
Daniel Foster (UBC)
Marziye Mirbagheri (Paraza PHarma Inc.)
Minggan Li (ChipCare Corporation,Toronto)
Byeong-Ui Moon (NRC, Montreal)
Graduate students
Ahmad Manzoor
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