People

People – NSF iBioFoundry

Co-Principal Investigators

Huimin Zhao
Center Director

Huimin Zhao

Steven L. Miller Chair, Professor
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

Geir Dullerud

Geir Dullerud

W. Grafton and Lillian B. Wilkins Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Sarah Sterman

Sarah Sterman

Research Assistant Professor,
Siebel School of Computing and Data Science

Jonathan Sweedler

Jonathan Sweedler

James R. Eiszner Family Endowed Chair in Chemistry

Biofoundry Platform Operations

Prof. Huimin Zhao

Prof. Huimin Zhao

Director

George Heintz

George Heintz

Managing Director

Dr. Nilmani Singh

Dr. Nilmani Singh

User Program Manager

Dr. Jingxia Lu

Dr. Jingxia Lu

Automation Engineer

Steven Jarsen

Steven Jarsen

Automation Engineer

Affiliated Faculty

Nancy Amato

Nancy Amato

Abel Bliss Professor of Engineering; Director, Siebel School of Computing and Data Science

Matthew Berry

Matthew Berry

NCSA, Lead Research Programmer, Visual Analytics

Steven Burgess

Steven Burgess

Assistant Professor,
Department of Plant Biology

Kris Hauser

Kris Hauser

Professor,
Department of Computer Science

Jeremy Guest

Jeremy Guest

David C. Crawford Faculty Scholar Levenick Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering

Nathan Hillson

Nathan Hillson

Department Head of BioDesign, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Matthew Hudson

Matthew Hudson

Professor, College of ACES, Crop Sciences

Young-Su Jin

Young-Su Jin

Professor, Food Science & Human Nutrition, College of ACES

Stephan Lane

Stephan Lane

Assistant Professor,
Cornell University

Ge Liu

Ge Liu

Assistant Professor,
Department of Computer Science

Christopher Rao

Christopher Rao

Ray and Beverly Mentzer Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

Matthew West

Matthew West

Professor; William H. Severns Faculty Scholar, Mechanical Science and Engineering

Chengxiang Zhai

Chengxiang Zhai

Donald Biggar Willett Professor in Engineering, Department of Computer Science

NSF iBioFoundry
1206 W Gregory Dr, Urbana, IL, 61801
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