Ha Research Group

 University of Illinois directory

Professor of Physics and Investigator of Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Taekjip Ha BS, Seoul National University, Korea, 1990, physics
MA, University of California, Berkeley, 1991, physics
PhD, University of California, Berkeley, 1996, physics
Research Assistant Professors

Sua Myong

 

BA, University of California, Berkeley, 1994, molecular cell biology
PhD, University of California, Berkeley, 2001, nutritional science and toxicology

Jaya Yodh

BA, Cornell University, New York, 1987, biology w/concentration in biochemistry
PhD, Johns Hopkins University, Maryland, 1993, biochemistry

Post-doctoral Research Associates

Hamza Balci BS, Koa University, Turkey, 1998
MS, University of Maryland, College Park, 2004, physics
PhD, University of Maryland, College Park, 2004, physics

Peter Cornish

 

BS, Graceland University, Iowa, 2000, biology, chemistry, mathematics
PhD, Texas A&M University, 2005, biochemistry

Yuji Ishitsuka

 

BS, Wheaton College, Illinois, 2000, chemistry
MS, University of Chicago, Illinois, 2001, chemistry
PhD, University of Chicago, Illinois, 2006, chemistry

Gwangrog Lee

BS, Sungkyunkwan University, S. Korea, 1997
MS, Sungkyunkwan University, S. Korea, 2000
PhD, Duke University, North Carolina, 2006

Eli Rothenberg

 

BSc, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, 2000, physics
MSc, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2002, physical chemistry
PhD, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2006, physical chemistry
Xinghua Shi BS, University of Science and Technology, China, 2001, chemical physics
PhD, Stanford University, California, 2007, biophysical chemistry

Graduate Research Assistants

Sinan Arslan

 

MS, University of Illinois, Urbana, 2002, physics
BS,  Bilkent University, Turkey, 1999, physics

Michael Brenner

BS, University of Georgia, Athens, 2005, biochemistry and molecular biology

Ibrahim Cisse

 

BS, North Carolina Central University, 2004, physics
MS, University of Illinois, Urbana, 2005, physics

Jiajie Diao

 

BS, Xian Jiaotong University, China, 2001
Sultan Doganay BS, Koc University, Turkey, 2007, physics
Ankur Jain BS, IIT-Kharagpur, India, 2007, biotechnology and biochemical engineering

Prakrit Jena

 

BS, Illinois Wesleyan University, 2005, physics and mathematics

Kyung Suk Lee

 

BS, Seoul National University, Korea, 2006

Cheng Liu

 

BS, University of Science & Technology, China, 2004, physics

Jeehae Park

BS, Yonsei University, Korea, 2004, biotechnology 

Kaushik Ragunathan

 

B.Tech, PSG College of Technology, 2005, biotechnology
 

Maria Sorokina

 

  MS, Moscow Technical University, Russia, 2006, physics

Reza Vafabakhsh

 

Ruobo Zhou

 

BS, University of Science and Technology, China, 2005, physics
Support Personnel
Salman Syed BS, University of Illinois, Urbana, 2005, molecular and cellular biology
Julia Wright MA and GMA