{"id":1410,"date":"2022-04-18T18:11:32","date_gmt":"2022-04-18T18:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.fau.edu\/sarahdu\/?page_id=1410"},"modified":"2025-09-10T15:30:38","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T15:30:38","slug":"people","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.fau.edu\/sarahdu\/?page_id=1410","title":{"rendered":"People"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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E (Sarah) Du, PhD<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Principal Investigator<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Email: edu@fau.edu<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Linkedin,<\/a> Google Scholar,<\/a> NCBI<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Curriculum Vitae<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hongyuan Xu<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Research Technician<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Email: hchou@health.fau.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Adeleh Kazemialamouti<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

PhD candidate, ME<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Research topic: blood impedance spectroscopy<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Email: akazemialamo2022@fau.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Liliana Ponkratova<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

PhD student, ME<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Email: lponkratova2022@fau.edu<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Research topic: Electro-deformation Spectroscopy<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Maria<\/strong> Largaespada<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Master student, Honors college BS\/MS, 2025 SURF fellow<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Deema Zaidan<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Undergraduate student<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Collaborators<\/h1>\n

Prof.\u00a0Ofelia Alvarez<\/a>, M.D.,\u00a0Professor of Clinical; Director, Pediatric Sickle Cell Program, University of Miami<\/p>\n

Prof.\u00a0Leif A. Carlsson<\/a>, Ph.D., J.M. Rubin Foundation Professor, Florida Atlantic University<\/p>\n

Prof.\u00a0Ming Dao<\/a>, Ph.D., Principal Investigator & Director, Nanomechanics Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology<\/p>\n

Prof.\u00a0Jeff Dvorin<\/a>, M.D., Ph.D., Boston Children\u2019s Hospital and Harvard Medical School<\/p>\n

Prof.\u00a0Erik Engeberg<\/a>, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Florida Atlantic University<\/p>\n

Prof.\u00a0Xuejin Li<\/a>, Ph.D., ZJU-100 Young Professor, Zhejiang Universitty<\/p>\n

Prof.\u00a0Andrew V. Oleinikov<\/a>, Ph.D.,\u00a0Associate Professor of Biomedical Science, Florida Atlantic University<\/p>\n

Prof.\u00a0Claudia O Rodrigues<\/a>, Ph.D., Research Associate Professor, University of Miami<\/p>\n

Dr. Tim Satchwell, Ph.D., Senior Research Associate, University of Bristol<\/p>\n

Prof.\u00a0Subra Suresh<\/a>, Ph.D., Vannevar Bush Professor of Engineering Emeritus, MIT; NTU President and Distinguished University Professor<\/p>\n

Prof.\u00a0Jianning Wei<\/a>, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Florida Atlantic University<\/p>\n

Prof.\u00a0Emmanuelle Tognoli<\/a>, Ph.D., Research Professor, Florida Atlantic University<\/p>\n

Prof.\u00a0Doug Hutchinson<\/a>, M.D., Professor, University of Utah<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Alumni<\/h2>\n

Graduate Students<\/h4>\n

Oladiran Oladokun (MS 2024)<\/p>\n

Mustafa Ayanoglu (PhD 2024)<\/p>\n

Darryl Dieujuste (PhD 2023), Electrical R&D Engineer, Hose McCann Communications, FL<\/p>\n

Samaneh Rikhehgaran (PhD 2023)<\/p>\n

Babak Mosavati (PhD 2022, RA of the Year at the 3rd COECS Graduate Academic Excellence Event), Senior Scientist, WellSIM Biomedical Technologies Inc<\/p>\n

KNU Galpayage Dona (PhD 2020), Postdoc at Temple University<\/p>\n

Jia Liu (PhD 2019, RA of the Year at the 1st COECS Graduate Academic Excellence Event), Postdoc at University of Connecticut<\/p>\n

Yuhao Qiang (PhD 2019), Assistant Professor, University of Maryland, Eastern Shore<\/p>\n

Yining(Evan) Tian (MS 2019), Charpie Intelligence Tech.<\/p>\n

Darryl Dieujuste (MS 2018, best Poster Award at the 1st COECS Graduate Academic Excellence Event)<\/p>\n

Jiaran Zhou (MS 2016)<\/p>\n

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Undergraduate Students<\/h4>\n

Joshua Masturzo (2025 Spring – Summer) Undergraduate researcher, ME, SURF fellow<\/p>\n

Jacob Askins (2024 Spring – Summer) Undergraduate researcher, ME, REU, SURF fellow<\/p>\n

Mohammad Hanif (2024 Spring – Summer) Undergraduate researcher, ME, REU, SURF fellow<\/p>\n

Senior design team (Shilei Richards, Abraham Silva, Alvaro Morales, Gineson Rousseau, Jacob Mullins, Smith Matthias, 2023 Fall – 2024 Spring), ME, FAU<\/p>\n

Nicolas Giovine (2024 Spring), REU researcher, ME, FAU<\/p>\n

Matthew McCrory (2024 Spring), REU researcher, ME, FAU<\/p>\n

Joshua Donjuan (2022- 2023), REU researcher, ME, FAU<\/p>\n

Connor Hopgood (2023 Spring), REU researcher, ME, FAU<\/p>\n

Brandon Yu (2022 Spring), ME, FAU<\/p>\n

Delaney Dobson (2021 Summer), ME, FAU<\/p>\n

Guillermo Gayoso (2021 Summer), ME, FAU<\/p>\n

Ladd Brown (2020 \u2013 2021), ME, FAU<\/p>\n

Roberson\u00a0Robert (2021 Spring), NSF learn scholar, FAU<\/p>\n

Anthony Nguyen (2021 Spring), NSF learn scholar, FAU<\/p>\n

Napatarong (Bill) Wannaphaschaiyong (2018), ME, FAU<\/p>\n

Lyndsey Mandelare (2016), ME, FAU<\/p>\n

Katrina Ramsamooj (2016), Chemistry, FAU, 2nd place -poster presentation in engineering, at the 8th FAU undergraduate research symposium<\/p>\n

Rachel Zhuang (2015), Biomedical engineering, University of Southern California<\/p>\n

Michal Mian (2015- 2016), ME, FAU<\/p>\n

Sara Zima (2015), Biology, FAU<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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High School Students<\/h4>\n

Diya Jain (2022), Pine Crest School<\/p>\n

Deeksha Kumaresh (2021-2022), American Heritage School, Ying Scholar, 1st place at the 2022 Florida State Science and Engineering Fair<\/p>\n

Kofi Meighan (2020), Pine Crest School<\/p>\n

Eeshani Behara (2019-2020), American Heritage School, Ying Scholar, 1st place in the 2018 Engineering and Induction, Sigma Xi Scientific Research Honor Society, 1st place at the 2019 Florida State Science and Engineering Fair<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Visiting Scholars<\/h4>\n

Dr. Shaofeng Wu (2019-2020), Lecturer, Hangzhou Dianzi University<\/p>\n

Jinrong Zhang (2018), Associate professor, Chang\u2019an University<\/p>\n

Fan Yang (2017-2018), PhD student, Nanjing University of Science and Technology<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

E (Sarah) Du, PhD Principal Investigator Email: edu@fau.edu Linkedin, Google Scholar, NCBI Curriculum Vitae Hongyuan Xu Research Technician Email: hchou@health.fau.edu Adeleh Kazemialamouti PhD candidate, ME Research topic: blood impedance spectroscopy Email: akazemialamo2022@fau.edu Liliana Ponkratova PhD student, ME Email: lponkratova2022@fau.edu Research topic: Electro-deformation Spectroscopy Maria Largaespada Master student, Honors college BS\/MS, 2025 SURF fellow Deema Zaidan Undergraduate student Collaborators Prof.\u00a0Ofelia Alvarez, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1410","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.fau.edu\/sarahdu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.fau.edu\/sarahdu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.fau.edu\/sarahdu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.fau.edu\/sarahdu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.fau.edu\/sarahdu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1410"}],"version-history":[{"count":67,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.fau.edu\/sarahdu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1793,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.fau.edu\/sarahdu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1410\/revisions\/1793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.fau.edu\/sarahdu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}