Chuchu Fan

Chuchu Fan joined the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics as an assistant professor in August 2020. She is finished her Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She received her Bachelor’s degree from Tsinghua University, Department of Automation in 2013. Her research interests are in the areas of formal methods and control for safe autonomy. She is a recipient of multiple prestigious awards including the Chinese Outstanding Student Abroad Award (2019), Mavis Future Faculty Fellowship (2018), Young Researcher for Heidelberg Laureate Forum (2017), Rising Stars in EECS (2016), EMSOFT ’16 Best Paper finalist, and Robert Bosch Best Verification Award in CPSWeek ’15.  Her research achievements are also recognized with a Robert T. Chien Memorial Award (2019), a Mac Van Valkenburg Research Award (2018), a Yi-Min Wang and Pi-Yu Chung Endowed Research Award (2017), and a Rambus Fellowship (2016).

Ariel Furst joined the Department of Chemical Engineering as an assistant professor in August 2019. She received her B.S. in Chemistry from University of Chicago in 2010, her Ph.D. In Chemistry from California Institute of Technology in 2015 where she was advised by Jackie Barton, and she recently completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California, Berkeley with Matthew Francis.  She was awarded the Arnold O. Beckman Fellowship in 2016-2018, and the Remsen Bird Lecturer Award in 2018. Her research interests include bioelectrochemistry, clinical diagnostics, biotechnology, surface chemistry and self-assembly, with particular interest in electrochemical diagnostic devices. The Furst group studies pathogenic bacteria in complex environments, answering questions at the intersection of chemistry and biology using electrochemistry as a tool. Her lab is developing new technologies based on electrochemistry to detect infectious disease, screen antibiotic candidates, elucidate mutagenesis pathways that lead to antibiotic resistance, and study fundamental mechanisms of pathogenesis. Her work focuses on improving the ability to fight infections and provide access to diagnostics and treatments. 

Anders Sejr Hansen joined the Department of Biological Engineering as an assistant professor in February 2020. He carried out his undergraduate studies and Master’s degree at Oxford University focusing on synthetic organic chemistry and his Pd.D. work at Harvard University where he developed new microfluidic and systems biology approaches to understand how cells can transmit gene expression information through temporal encoding in the dynamics of transcription factor activation. As a postdoc at UC Berkeley, he carried out cutting-edge work suggesting for the first time that genome organization and chromatin looping is highly dynamic inside single cells. His work has appeared in top journals and he was awarded a K99/R00 Pathway to Independence award from the NIH.

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