2023 SSSiN Participants

Ellie Bauer
BIO: Ellie Bauer is a student at Mission Bay High School (class of 2024), participating in the 2023 Summer School for Silicon Nanotechnology (SSSiN). She has a passion for mathematics, chemistry, and biology. She is interested in exploring the applications of nanotechnology in the medical field, specifically, its role in drug delivery and cancer treatment. She is also excited to learn the chemistry behind silicon and how to manipulate it.
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ORCID: 0009-0008-1705-7042
Mentor: Siran Rao
Safety tour: 5 March 2023
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Jiuk Byun
BIO: Jiuk is a PhD student in Materials Science and Engineering at UC San Diego. She received her B.A. in Chemistry with a minor in Mathematics from Mount Holyoke College. She conducted her undergraduate research with Professor Wei Chen and helped developed a new procedure for spin coating polydopamine thin films. She also worked with Professor Dirk Englund’s group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she worked on a simultaneous annealing and irradiating system to generate the nitrogen-vacancy center in diamond. Before joining UCSD, she researched coatings and carbonization of nature-inspired polymer materials in Professor Haeshin Lee’s lab at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology. She participated in the Summer School for Silicon Nanotechnology remotely in 2021 and in-person in 2023. Her research interests include surface modification of porous silicon nanoparticles and polymeric materials development for drug delivery.
email:jibyun_at_ucsd.edu
ORCID: 0000-0001-9810-8869
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Safety tour: 26 Jun 2023
Etch test: 27 Jun 2023

Hye Eun Choi
BIO: Hye Eun Choi is a M.S/Ph.D. integrated course student working with Prof. Ki Su Kim at Pusan National University, School of Chemical Engineering in South Korea. She is interested in application of nanomaterials and hydrogels for photomedicine, especially triplet-triplet annihilation-upconversion (TTA-UC) nanoparticles. She will be visiting the labs from 23 June – 1 December, 2023.
email: nanobiohe_at_pusan.ac.kr
ORCID: 0000-0001-6936-6367
Mentor: Ji Ho Park
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Saanvi Dogra
BIO: Saanvi is a sophomore at Del Norte High School and is participating in the 2023 Summer School for Silicon Nanotechnology at UC San Diego. She has previous research experience in microbiology, bioinformatics, and molecular modeling, and she is interested in the application of nanotechnology for the development of more effective drug delivery systems. Her Discovery Project involves 3-D printed polymer composites of porous Si nanoparticles for delivery of BDNF to repair severed peripheral nerves.
ORCID: 0009-0009-2669-1747
Mentor: Oscar Calzada
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Clémentine Gevers
BIO: Clémentine is a PhD student of Prof. Laurent Francis in the ICTEAM, at the Université Catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain), Belgium. Clémentine holds a Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering from UCLouvain. The topic of her thesis involves design, construction, and analysis of Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (SERS) subtrates for bacterial detection, and she will participate in the SSSiN with a focus on trapping of plasmonic metal nanoparticples inside mesoporous silicon. She visits the laboratory from June to August to participate in the 2023 SSSiN.
email: clementine.gevers_at_uclouvain.be
ORCID: 0000-0002-2722-7438
Mentor: Yi Sheng Lu
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Zinia Khattar
BIO: Zinia, a junior at Del Norte High School (class of 2025) is passionate about bioengineering and biochemistry with prior experience working on a project that used computational biology to map gene function on regulatory networks. As a participant in the 2023 SSSiN at UCSD, Zinia will research methods to load hydrophobic drugs into porous Si nanoparticles for treatment of bacterial infections.
ORCID: 0009-0008-4303-8902
Mentor: Siran Rao, Qinglin Yang
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Angeline Kim
BIO: Angeline is an undergraduate chemistry major at UC San Diego (class of 2024), who was a transfer student from San Diego Mesa College. She is motivated to discover how nanotechnology can play a role in future energy storage sources. Through this research opportunity she hopes to understand how the topics in her coursework are applied to current research and development activities. Her project focuses on chemical modification of silicon nanostructures using thermal hydrosilylation reactions.
email: askim_at_ucsd.edu
ORCID: 0000-0003-0714-4173
Mentor: Michael Sailor
Safety tour: 03 Mar 2023
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Jaehoon Kim
BIO: Jaehoon Kim is a Ph.D. student in Basic Medical Science at the laboratory of Professor Dokyoung Kim at Kyung Hee University College of Medicine. Jaehoon received his Master’s degree in Pharmacy at Kyung Hee University. His interest in nanomedicine is focused on drug delivery and photodynamic therapy for cancer treatment. He has experience developing brain-targeted drug delivery systems for amyloid plaque-disaggregation agents, fluorescent probes for disease diagnosis, and glioblastoma-targeted therapies. He visits the lab from June to August 2023.
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ORCID: 0000-0003-4155-3640
Mentor: Ji Ho Park
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Ji Hee Kim
BIO: Ji Hee Kim, M.D. is an associate professor in the department of neurosurgery at the College of Medicine, Hallym University, South Korea. A board-certified neurosurgeon, she specializes in stereotactic and functional neurosurgery. She is interested in nanoengineered intracranial drug delivery systems for the treatment of various intractable neurological disorders. She will participate in the 2023 SSSiN as part of her sabbatical studies, staying in the labs through May 2024. Her research will focus on treatment of brain injuries using peptide-targeted nanoparticles in collaboration with the research group of Prof. Ester Kwon.
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ORCID: 0000-0001-6937-8093
Mentor: Ji Ho Park
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Minju Kim
BIO: Minju Kim is a PhD student in Biomedical Engineering at the laboratory of Professor Jinmyoung Joo at the Ulsan National Institute of Science & Technology (UNIST). She is currently working on transdermal drug delivery systems using porous silicon nano/microparticles, and she aims to perform research on targeting various diseases using this drug delivery platform. She will participate in the 2023 SSSiN as part of her graduate studies, staying in the labs through March 2024. Her research involves a collaboration with the research group of Prof. Ester Kwon. and Prof. Giuseppe Barillaro, on delivery of anti-sense oligonucleotides with microneedles.
email: minjuu_at_unist.ac.kr
ORCID: 0000-0003-1510-4999
Mentor: Ji Ho Park
Safety tour: 5 Jun 2023
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Eunjin Lee
BIO: Eunjin Lee is an MS student in professor Jinmyoung Joo‘s lab in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the Ulsan National Institute of Science & Technology (UNIST), Korea. She holds a BS in Chemistry from Chungnam National University. She is interested in drug delivery systems that utilize nanoparticles for gene therapy (RNA therapy), with a focus on neurodegenerative diseases. She will participate in the 2023 SSSiN as part of her graduate studies, staying in the labs through May 2024. Her research will involve collaboration with the research groups of Dr. Mark Tuszynski, MD and Kobi Koffler, PhD, with a focus on composite scaffolds for nerve regeneration.
email: ejlee_at_unist.ac.kr
ORCID: 0000-0001-7553-5630
Mentor: Ji Ho Park
Safety tour: 5 Jun 2023
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Louise Lejeune
BIO: Louise Lejeune is a second year PhD student in the laboratories of Prof. Sophie Hermans and Laurent Francis at the Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium. Louise holds a Masters Degree in Chemistry (Magna cum laude) from UCLouvain. She is working on the development of a porous silicon substrate decorated with plasmonic nanostructures relevant to the detection of pathogens by Raman spectroscopy. She visits the laboratory from June to August to participate in the 2023 SSSiN.
email: l.lejeune_at_uclouvain.be
ORCID: 0000-0002-7219-8074
Mentor: Oscar Calzada
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Jongwook Ryu
BIO: Jongwook “Daniel” Ryu is an undergraduate student at Yonsei University, double-majoring in Chemistry and in Biochemistry. He is interested in applications of nanomaterials in cancer therapy, as well as bioimaging of tumors, and other therapeutic applications. He will participate in the 2023 SSSiN as part of his undergraduate research in the laboratory of Prof. Dokyoung Kim. He will stay in the labs through August 2023.
email: daniel81good_at_yonsei.ac.kr
ORCID: 0000-0002-2800-6098
Mentor: Ji-Ho Park
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Thomas Sendino
BIO: Thomas Sendino is an undergraduate pharmacological chemistry student at the University of California, San Diego (class of 2024). He has an interest in the application of porous nanoparticles as a means of targeted drug delivery to damaged tissue. In his free time, he likes to lift weights, go to the beach, and attend concerts. He is participating in the program as a UC San Diego Undergraduate RIMSE trainee. He was introduced to the program through participating in the 2023 RIMSE Spring Break Research Experience.
email: tsendino_at_ucsd.edu
ORCID: 0009-0006-0048-9442
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Safety tour: 27 Mar 2023
Etch test: 27 Mar 2023

Jihye Song
BIO: Jihye Song, M.D. is an associate professor in the department of neurosurgery at Ajou University Hospital, South Korea. She is a board-certified neurosurgeon specializing in open surgical and endovascular surgery. She also holds an ECFMG (Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates) certificate. She is interested in the application of nano-technology to develop materials for aneurysm treatment, and will participate in the 2023 SSSiN as part of her sabbatical studies. Her research will focus on treatment of brain injuries using peptide-targeted nanoparticles in collaboration with the research group of Prof. Ester Kwon. She will stay in the labs through May 2024.
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ORCID:0000-0003-1949-6459
Mentor: Ji-Ho Park
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Julia Stoneburner
BIO: Julia Stoneburner is a bioengineering undergraduate at UCLA and a transfer from Foothill Community College in the Bay Area. She will be participating in SSSiN as part of the SDNI REU program. Outside of academics she enjoys creating art, being outdoors, and working on her engineering design team. She is excited to explore nanotechnology applications in bioengineering.
email: jcstoneburner_at_g.ucla.edu
ORCID: 0009-0003-7278-430X
Mentor: Qinglin Yang
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Ashley Tamura
BIO: Prof. Ashley Tamura is an Adjunct Professor of Chemistry, teaching in the San Diego Community College and Southwestern College districts and is participating in the program as an RET. She received both her B.S. and M.S. from UC San Diego while working on the phase-tunable colloidal synthesis of tungsten disulfide nanocrystals with Dr. Alina M. Schimpf. She continues to have interests in both nanochemistry and teaching.
email: atamura_at_sdccd.edu
ORCID:0000-0002-2540-6125
Mentor: Michael Sailor
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Ahmad Turkistani
BIO: Ahmad Turkistani is an undergraduate student studying Chemical Engineering at UCSD, class of 2026. He is interested in the connection between nanotechnology and how it could further improve the production and the enhancement of polymers, related to sustainability. He is participating in the program as a UC San Diego Undergraduate RIMSE trainee. He was introduced to the program through participating in the 2023 RIMSE Spring Break Research Experience.
email: aturkistani_at_ucsd.edu
ORCID: 0009-0006-5394-8198
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Safety tour: 27 Mar 2023
Etch test: 27 Mar 2023 (update required)

William Chan
BIO: William Chan is an undergraduate Chemical Engineering major at UC San Diego (class of 2025), who began in the lab as a participant in the 2022 UCSD MRSEC RIMSE program, “Summer School for Silicon Nanotechnology”. His degree in Chemical Engineering will have a specialization in material science and environmental engineering. Outside of the laboratory, he enjoys mountain biking, hiking, and surfing. His project focuses on optimized methods to prepare porous silicon nanoparticles using high shear microfluidization.
ORCID:0000-0002-7648-6962

Han Chi
BIO: Han Chi is an undergraduate Chemistry major at UC San Diego (class of 2024), who was introduced to the lab as a participant in the 2022 Spring Break RIMSE research introduction program, then continued as a participant in the 2022 SSSiN, and in 2023 will serve as a Mentor. Her research focus is on chemical grafting of polymers and redox-active species to porous silicon to enhance chemical stability for environmental sensor applications. She works on mesoporous photonic crystals and related nanostructures.
ORCID: 0000-0002-4839-0912

Eileen Huffer-Ege
BIO: Eileen is a Science educator at the School of Engineering, Innovation and Design on the Kearny High Complex in San Diego, California. She participated in the 2022 UCSD MRSEC RIMSE program’s Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) program. She was instrumental in developing the silicone micro-lens project (converts your cell phone into a microscope) and in the 2023 SSSiN she is acting as a Senior Mentor to RET and other participants with interests in developing course content related to nanotechnology.

Ji-Ho Park
BIO: Prof. Ji-Ho Park is a Professor in the Department of Bio and Brain Engineering at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in South Korea, visiting the lab on a sabbatical from Feb 2023 to Feb 2024. His research is on nanomaterials and nanomedicine. He participates in the 2023 SSSiN as a Senior Mentor in the projects with focus on peptide-targeted nanoparticles for treatment of infectious diseases, brain injury, and cancer.
email: jihopark_at_kaist.ac.kr
ORCID:0000-0002-0721-0428

Megan Salek
BIO: Megan Salek is an undergraduate student at UC San Diego majoring in Physics with a Specialization in Biophysics (class of 2024). She is interested in the mechanics and biomedical applications of nanotechnology, with emphasis on radiation physics. She participated in the 2022 Summer School for Silicon Nanotechnology (SSSiN), one of the UC San Diego MRSEC RIMSE research immersion programs, and participates in the 2023 SSSiN as a Senior Mentor Megan’s project focuses on quantum materials and the role of quantum confinement effects in porous silicon nanoparticles.
ORCID: 0000-0003-1588-4833

Yutong She
BIO: Yutong is an undergraduate Chemistry major at UC San Diego (class of 2025), who was introduced to the lab as a participant in the 2022 SSSiN, and in 2023 will serve as a Mentor. She is supported by a prestigious Physical Sciences Dean’s Undergraduate Summer Research Award to support her summer 2023 studies. Her research focus is on photo-oxidation of porous silicon to enhance molecule capture for drug delivery and related therapeutic applications.
ORCID: 0000-0001-7024-0147

Qinglin Yang
BIO: Qinglin is a PhD student in Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) at UCSD. She began her work in the Sailor labs as a participant in the 2017 Summer School for Silicon Nanotechnology (SSSiN) and has served as a Senior Mentor in the 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022 SSSiN. Her research interests lie in the use of porous silicon nanoparticles for delivery of therapeutics to treat bacterial infections. This includes chemistries to capture and retain hydrophobic small molecule antibiotics and also to use peptides for selective targeting of the diseased tissues.
ORCID: 0000-0001-7845-4027

2023 Summer School for Silicon Nanotechnology (SSSiN)

2023 Participants

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