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Group Members

Principal Investigator

 Daesung Lee
Daesung Lee, Professor

B.S., Seoul National University, Korea, 1988 (with Prof. Eun Lee)
M.S. Seoul National University, Korea, 1990 (with Prof. Eun Lee)
Ph.D., Stanford University, 1998 (with Prof. Paul A. Wender)
Postdoc, Harvard Univeristy, 1998–2000 (with Prof. Stuart L. Schreiber)
Fellow of the A. P. Sloan Foundation, 2004–2006
Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin- Madison, 2000-2007
Associate Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago 2007-2014
Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2014-present
Adjunct Professor, Wenzhou University, 2018-2021

 

 

Graduate Students

Anh Le

BSc, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2015
ale7@uic.edu

 

Saswata Gupta

BSc, Presidency College, Kolkata 2013
MSc, IIT Kharagpur, India,  2015
sgupta97@uic.edu

Siyuan Su

BSc, Sichuan University, China 2013
MSc, Stony Brook University, NY, 2017
ssu26@uic.edu

 

Erandi Liyange Perera

BSc, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2018
eliyan2@uic.edu

 

Alumni
Dr. Sang Young Yun

PhD, Marquette University, 2005
Postdoc, University of Chicago, 2005-2007
Postdoc, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2007-2016

Dr. Jingwei Li

BSc, Lanzhou University, China, 2001
MS, University of New Hampshire, 2007
PhD, Univeristy of Illinois at Chicago, 2012

Current position: Postdoctoral associate with Prof. Yoshito Kishi at Harvard Univeristy, 2013-present

 

Dr. Chunrui Sun
Chunrui Sun

BSc, East China Univ. of Science and Tech., China, 2005
PhD, Univeristy of Illinois at Chicago, 2012

Current position: Postdoctoral associate with Prof. James Morken at Boston College, 2013-present

 

Kung-Pern Wang
Dr. Kung-Pern Wang

BSc, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, 2002
MS, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, 2004
PhD, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2013

Current position: Postdoctoral associate with Prof. David Spiegel at Yale University, 2013-present

 

 

Dr. Huaqing Liu

M.E. Nanjing Institute of Chemical Technology, China, 1990
M.S. University of Illinois at Chicago, 1996
PhD, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2013

Current Position: Research Scientist at AbbVie, 2013-present

Dr. Nam-Kyu Lee

BSc, Soongsil University, Korea, 2002
MS, Yonsei University, Korea, 2008
PhD, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2013

Current position: Scientist at SK, S. Korea, 2013-present

Dr. Ivan Volchkov

BSc, Lomonosov Moscow state University, Russia, 2008
PhD, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2013

Current Position: Postdoctoral associate with Prof. Michael Krische at The University of Texas Austin, 2014-present

Dr. Phani Raja P.K. Mamidipalli

BSc, Andhra University, India, 2002
MS, Osmania University, India, 2004
PhD, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2014

 

 

Dr. Matthew J. O'Connor

BSc, Northern Illinois University 2007
MS, Northern Illinois University 2010
PhD, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2015

Current Position: Postdoctoral associate with Prof. Karl A. Scheidt at Northwestern University from 2016

Dr. Venkata Reddy Sabbasani

BSc, Acharya Nagarjuna University, India, 2005
MS, Osmania University, India, 2008
PhD, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2016

Current Position: Postdoctoral associate with Prof. David Spiegel at Yale University, 2016-present

 

Dr. Rajdip Karmakar

 

BSc, The University of Burdwan, India, 2008
MSc, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India, 2010
PhD, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2017

Current Position: Postdoctoral associate with Prof. Glenn C. Micalizio at Dartmouth College, 2017-present

 
Dr. Hyunjin Lee

BSc, Univerisity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2012
PhD, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2018

Current Position: Abbot Laboratories

 

 

Sourav Ghorai

BSc, Ramakrishna Mission Residential College, Narendrapur, University of Calcutta, 2012
MSc, IIT Kanpur, India,  2014

PhD, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2020

 

Current Position: Postdoc at Calibr, Scripps

Fa-Jie Chen

BSc, Fuzhou University, China, 2011
PhD, Zhejiang University, China, 2016
Postdoc, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, CAS, China, 2016-2018


fajiechen90@gmail.com

 

Hua Xu

BSc, SYPHU, China, 2015
MSc, Illinois Institute of Technology, 2017
hxu65@uic.edu