• Master defense (7/28/26)

Bushra defended her Master's thesis on "CRISPR-Based Point-of-Care HIV-1 RNA Detection Using a Microfluidic Platform." Great job, and congradulations!  We hope you the best of luck in your career!

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• Master defense (7/23/26)

Sabita defended her Master's thesis on "Single-Cell Phenotyping for Efficient Pathogen Diagnostics Using Artificial Neural Networks."​​ Great job, and congradulations!  We hope you the best of luck in your career!

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• Graduation (5/9/26)

Bushra and Anadil are graduating with the Master's degree from our lab.  Congradulations, and all the best in the future!

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• Master defense (3/25/26)

Anadil Faruque successfully defended her Master's thesis on "A self-actuating, magnetic microfluidic platform for rapid colorimetric & fluorescence pathogen detection and AST at the point-of-care UTI diagnosis". Anadil has accepted an offer to pursue Phd at NC State University. Good job, and congradulations!

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• IIN Fellowship (3/25/26)

Dr. Li has been selected as an Illinois Innovation Network Fellow. He will study to bridge the gap between an academic prototype and a commercially viable medical product.

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• IEEE Nanomed Conference (12/2/25) 

Dr. Li presented rapid pathogen diagnostic techniques at the IEEE Nanomed Conference. Our AI-powered single-cell analysis tech was recognized as the Best Paper Finalist. Meanwhile, we met many friends and had great fun!​​

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