People
principal investigator (PI)
Aram Chung received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Seoul National University (SNU) in 2006 and earned a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University in 2011. Between 2011 and 2013, he conducted postdoctoral studies in Bioengineering at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He later joined Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) as an Assistant Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department, and in 2017, he moved to the School of Biomedical Engineering at Korea University where he now serves as a Professor. His research pioneered the establishment of microfluidic platforms for immunotherapy, genome editing and cell engineering. He has also taken on a leadership role in technology entrepreneurship, founding a company (MxT Biotech) that commercializes intellectual property developed in his lab. Among his many honors, he was a finalist for the SLAS Innovation Award in 2020 and received the Seok-Top Technology Award from KU in 2022 and 2023. Further accolades include the BioChip Journal Award in 2021, the KOSMBE Young Investigator Award in 2019, and the Early Career Award from the BioChip Society in 2018. He was honored with the KSEA Young Investigator Award in 2017 and the RPI Class of 1951 Outstanding Teaching Award in 2016. Additionally, he received the UCLA Chancellor's Award for Postdoctoral Research in 2013, along with the Grand Prize and the 1st Prize Poster Award at ASME-IMECE in 2010 and 2009, respectively. He also won the Samsung HumanTech Paper Silver Award in 2008. Contact: ac467 at korea.ac.kr |
Graduate students
You Jeong Kim | Ju Hee Lee | ||
Qingluan Liu | Chae-lim An | ||
SungWon Bang | Minjae Kim | ||
Soohyun Jeon | Myungsuk Sung | ||
Dongwhan Seo |
Undergraduate students
Research Administrator
Jiyeon Park |
Lab Alums
Name |
Role |
Year |
Current Position |
Hyelee Kim |
M.S. |
2020-2023 |
MxT Biotech |
Minjeong Lee |
M.S. |
2020-2023 |
MxT Biotech |
Hyunjung Lim, PhD |
Postdoc |
2023-2023 |
Dodam IP Law firm |
Suyeon Kim |
M.S. |
2021-2023 |
CMU BME |
Chan Kwon |
M.S. |
2020-2022 |
DongKook Pharmaceutical |
Gi-beom Kim |
M.S. |
2019-2022 |
MxT Biotech |
Jeongsoo Hur |
M.S. |
2018-2021 |
Caltech BE |
Byeongju Joo |
M.S. |
2018-2021 |
KITECH |
Hasung Lee |
M.S. |
2019-2021 |
Samsung Biologics |
GeoumYoung Kang |
M.S. |
2018-2020 |
KIST |
Yanxiang Deng |
PhD |
2014-2018 |
Asst Prof. at Penn Pathology |
Kevin Paulsen |
PhD |
2013-2017 |
LLNL |
Ekram Karim |
Undergraduate |
2013-2014 |
RPI ME |
Kristen Young |
HS |
Summer 2014 |
MIT ME/NE |
Jing Xiao |
M.Eng. |
2014 |
QuEST Global |
Brendan Jablonski |
Undergraduate |
2015 |
Thoratec |
Zhenlong Wu |
Visiting/Postdoc |
2014-2015 |
Asst Prof. at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics |
Will Chang |
Undergraduate |
2015 |
RPI AE |
Bum-Joon Jung |
Undergraduate/M.Eng |
2013-2016 |
KAIST Nano Sci. & Tech |
Mengqian Gao |
Undergraduate |
2015--2016 |
AKF Group |
Markus Ricardo |
Undergraduate |
2015--2016 |
RPI ME Under |
Hannah Eckstein |
HS |
Summer 2016 |
Harvard ME |
Vincent Ahn |
Undergraduate |
Summer 2016 |
Purdue EE |
Andrea Curie |
Undergraduate |
2016-2017 |
KAPL |
Frank Charbonier |
Undergraduate |
2016-2017 |
Stanford ME |
Erin Mahoney |
Undergraduate |
2017 |
Cornell BME |
Jiaying Yu |
Undergraduate |
2016-2017 |
UPenn ME |
Jessica Mastropietro |
Undergraduate |
2016-2017 |
RPI BME |
Bradley Johnson |
Undergraduate |
2016-2017 |
Ecovative |
Scott Merrullo |
Undergraduate |
2015-2016 |
Raytheon |
Michael Cintron
|
Undergraduate |
2013--2016 |
Dynamic Systems Inc |
Dana Stevens
|
Undergraduate |
2016-2017 |
RPI MANE |
Jaewoo Lee
|
Undergraduate |
2017-2018 |
KU BME |
Eunsil Yoo
|
Undergraduate |
2018 |
Duksung Women's Univ Pharmacy |
Eun Sung Kim
|
Undergraduate |
2020 |
KU BME |