Principal Investigator

Hideaki Tsutsui

Hideaki Tsutsui, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
(Participating Faculty, Department of Bioengineering)
(Member, UCR Stem Cell Center)

Tel: (951) 827-2444
Email: htsutsui < at > engr.ucr.edu

Link to CV

Hideaki Tsutsui is an Associate Professor of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of California, Riverside. He is also a participating faculty member of the Department of Bioengineering and the UCR Stem Cell Center. He received a B.E. from the University of Tokyo (2001), a M.S. from the University of California, San Diego (2003), and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles (2009), all in Mechanical Engineering. He then conducted postdoctoral research during 2009-2011 at the Center for Cell Control and the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department at UCLA. His current research interests include low-cost medical and agricultural biosensors, and macro- and micro-fluidic tools for cell-based biomanufacturing. He is a recipient of a Grand Challenges Explorations Phase I Award from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (2012) and a Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) Award from National Science Foundation (2017). He was named the 2018 Class of Influential Researchers by Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research. He serves on the editorial board of SLAS Technology.

Postdoctoral Researcher

Graduate Students

Carys Layton

Carys Layton

Ph.D. Candidate (BS Physics, Southern Oregon University)
clayt001 < at > ucr.edu
Jenna Roper

Jenna Roper

Ph.D. Candidate (BS Bioengineering, UC Riverside)
jrope001 < at > ucr.edu
ChiaWeiLiu

Chia-Wei Liu

Ph.D. Candidate (BS Chemical Engineering and MS Engineering Science, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan)
cliu196 < at > ucr.edu

Undergraduate Students

Crystal Yang

Crystal Yang

Senior, Chemistry Major
Andrew Pham

Andrew Pham

Junior, Biology Major

Previous Members

Graduate Students

Daniel Nampe 2012 MS BIEN
Jessica Wen 2013 MS BIEN
Brent Kalish 2014 MS ME Ph.D Student, UCR
Jessica Wen 2016 Ph.D. BIEN MIDP Fellow, Vanderbilt School of Medicine
Carlos Castro 2016 Ph.D. ME Assistant Professor, Cal Poly Pomona
Daniel Nampe 2016 Ph.D. BIEN Process Engineer, Kite Pharma
Brent Kalish 2019 Ph.D. ME
Jianhou Zhang 2020 MS ME
Sidharth Modha 2022 Ph.D. BIEN Consulting Firm

Undergraduate Students

John Yoo 2012-13 BS BIEN
Veronica Boulos 2013 BS BIEN
Brent Kalish 2012-13 BS ME Ph.D Student, UCR
Cindy Rosillo 2012-15 BS ME
Chad Beaudette 2012-15 BS ME MS Student, University of Minnesota
Mick Tan 2015-16 BS ME
Joshua Karam 2014-16 BS BIEN Ph.D. Student, UCLA
James Luong 2015-17 BS ME
Jenna Roper 2015-17 BS BIEN Ph.D. Student, UCR
Ronak Joshi 2013-17 BS Neuroscience
Karen Bohorquez 2015-17 BS ME
Keith Kuboshima 2016 BS ME
Agustin Moran Carmona 2018 BS ME
Rei Tamaoka 2018 BS ME
Alexandra Rodriguez 2018-19 BS ME
Jeanette Valencia 2018-19 BS ME
Hussein Chamouni 2019-20 BS ME
Christopher Alvarez 2019-20 BS ME
Jose Garcia 2019-22 BS BIEN
Nicholas Lee 2019-22 BS Biology

Exchange Students and Visitors

Fernando Rivera-Servín de la Mora 2014 MSRIP Program, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California
Ricardo C. Paredes-González 2014 MSRIP Program, Tecnológico de Monterrey
Maribel Gonzalez 2015 CIRM Bridges Intern, California State University, San Bernardino
Shuyang Fang 2015-16 GPP-E Exchange Student, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China (currently Ph.D student, Columbia University)
Jianhou Zhang 2016-17 GPP-E Exchange Student, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China (currently Ph.D student, UCR)
Sean Connolly 2021-22 CIRM Bridges Intern, California State University, San Bernardino