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Fall 2020
From left to right: Ke Du, Gengchen Deng, Jimmy He, Grant Korensky, Mengdi Bao, Li Liu, Yu Chang, Xinye Chen, Chad ten Pas |
Fall 2019
From left to right: Ke Du, Teng Li, Xinye Chen, Mengdi Bao, Hillary Le, Grant Korensky, Kenny Hass, Yu Chang, Rohan Costa |
Principal Investigator
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Ke Du, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor ke.du@rit.edu Mechanical Engineering Kate Gleason College of Engineering Rochester Institute of Technology 76 Lomb Memorial Dr, Rochester, NY 14623
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Bio: Professor Du is currently a tenure-track assistant professor of mechanical engineering at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) and leads the Nanobiosensing, Nanomanufacturing, and Nanomaterials (3N) Lab. He also holds appointments in the microsystems engineering and school of chemistry and materials science. Before joining RIT in 2018, he was a postdoctoral researcher in the chemistry department at the University of California-Berkeley. Currently, Du’s research group at RIT has been studying the interactions between biomolecules and nanostructures at the single-molecule level to enhance biomarker trapping and sensing.
His group has published papers in journals such as ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, Advanced Functional Materials, ACS Infectious Diseases, ACS Omega, ACS Sensors, Biosensors and Bioelectronics, Electrophoresis, Nanotechnology, and Optics Express and has been widely covered by popular media including Science Daily, Yahoo Finance, The Science Times, and EurekAlert. Du has been recognized as one of the twenty five global rising stars in sensing by ACS Sensors, a special issue celebrating early stage investigators. He has also been the recipient of the NIH Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (2021), the Burroughs Wellcome Fund (BWF) Collaborative Travel Grant (2019), the National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Student Fellowship (2012), James H. Potter Award (2014), and Stevens Innovation & Entrepreneur (IE) Fellowship (2009–2014). He was the only recipient worldwide of the 2017 Biosensors Travel Award and one of only two recipients worldwide of the 2017 Micromachines Travel Award.
Du’s research is supported by NIH, NSF, DOE, The UNYTE Translational Research Network, and industry partners such as L3Harris, Colgate Palmolive, and Biological Mimetics.
His group has published papers in journals such as ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, Advanced Functional Materials, ACS Infectious Diseases, ACS Omega, ACS Sensors, Biosensors and Bioelectronics, Electrophoresis, Nanotechnology, and Optics Express and has been widely covered by popular media including Science Daily, Yahoo Finance, The Science Times, and EurekAlert. Du has been recognized as one of the twenty five global rising stars in sensing by ACS Sensors, a special issue celebrating early stage investigators. He has also been the recipient of the NIH Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (2021), the Burroughs Wellcome Fund (BWF) Collaborative Travel Grant (2019), the National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Student Fellowship (2012), James H. Potter Award (2014), and Stevens Innovation & Entrepreneur (IE) Fellowship (2009–2014). He was the only recipient worldwide of the 2017 Biosensors Travel Award and one of only two recipients worldwide of the 2017 Micromachines Travel Award.
Du’s research is supported by NIH, NSF, DOE, The UNYTE Translational Research Network, and industry partners such as L3Harris, Colgate Palmolive, and Biological Mimetics.
Senior Research Scientist
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Dr. Zhiheng Xu
zxxeie@rit.edu Mechanical Engineering/AMPrint Center Kate Gleason College of Engineering Rochester Institute of Technology 76 Lomb Memorial Dr, Rochester, NY 14623 |
Bio: Dr. Zhiheng Xu is a senior research scientist at 3N lab, co-advised by Denis Cormier. He received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Connecticut in 2017 and was a postdoctoral researcher working at the University of Connecticut Health Center. Dr. Xu’s current research is focused on nanobiosensing with solid-state nanopore.
