Alumni

Postdocs

Chanyoung Maeng

Postdoctoral Scientist

Years in lab: 2023-2024

Research Scientist at the South Korean Agency for Defence Development, Yuseong, Daejeon, South Korea

Pengfei Zhou

Postdoctoral Scientist

Years in lab: 2019-2022

Professor at Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China

Xinxin Shao

Postdoctoral Scientist

Years in lab: 2017-2019

Professor at Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, China

Sangjune Park

Postdoctoral Scientist

Years in lab: 2017-2019

Research Scientist at the South Korean Agency for Defence Development, Yuseong, Daejeon, South Korea

Angus Logan

Postdoctoral Scientist

Years in lab: 2014-2016

Systems Architecture Engineer at Arm Holdings, Ltd., Cambridge, United Kingdom

Graduate Students

Jiaqi Zhu

Graduate Student, Ph.D. 2026

Dissertation: “Transition Metal-Catalyzed Diastereo-, Enantio-, and Z/E-Selective Allylation and Alkylation of Azatrienes for the Preparation of Chiral Amine Derivatives”

Years in lab: 2019-2026

Postdoctoral Scientist with Alvin Chang, National Technological University of Singapore

Xiaoxiao Ma

Graduate Student, Ph.D. 2025

Dissertation: “The Development of Palladium-Catalyzed Regio- and Enantioselective Difunctionalizations of Conjugated Dienes and Enynes”

Years in lab: 2019-2025

Chibueze Onyeagusi

Graduate Student, Ph.D. 2022

Dissertation: “The Development of Palladium- and Cobalt-Catalyzed Methods for the Syntheses of α-Trifluoromethyl and Alkyl Amines”

Years in lab: 2017-2022

Senior Scientist, Process Chemistry Group, Merck and Co., Rahway, NJ

Nathan Adamson

Graduate Student, Ph.D. 2020

Dissertation: “The Development of Palladium-Catalyzed Regio- and Enantioselective Hydrofunctionalizations of Conjugated Dienes and Enynes”

Years in lab: 2015-2020

Senior Scientist, Discovery Chemistry, Genentech, San Francisco, CA

Kangnan Li

Graduate Student, Ph.D. 2018

Dissertation: “New Strategies and Transformations for the alpha-Functionalization of Amines to Access Chiral Amines”

Years in lab: 2013-2018

Software Engineer at MAI, San Francisco, CA

Paige Daniel

Graduate Student, Ph.D. 2018

Dissertation: “Synthesis of Protected Amines from Azaallyl Anion and Azadiene Building Blocks”

Years in lab: 2013-2018

Clinical Pharmacologist at Deciphera Pharmaceuticals, Waltham, MA

Myoungmi (Melanie) Lee

Graduate Student, M.S. 2022

Thesis: “Copper-Catalyzed Enantioselective Alkylation of Heteroarene N-oxides with Azadienes”

Years in lab: 2017-2022

Alexandria Weber

Graduate Student, M.S. 2017

Thesis: “The Diastereoselective Synthesis of 1,3-Diamines and Amino Alcohols via 2-Azaallyl Anion Ring-Opening of Aziridines and Epoxides”

Years in lab: 2015-2017

Global Project Manager, Synthesis and Life Science Division at CEM Corporation, Charlotte, NC

Ethan Hull

Graduate Student, M.S. 2017

Thesis: “Palladium-Catalyzed Enantioselective Intermolecular Hydroamination of 1,3-Dienes with Alkyl Amines”

Years in lab: 2015-2017

Senior Associate Scientist at KBI Biopharma, Durham, NC

Undergraduate Students

Annie Zhang

Undergraduate Student

Years in lab: 2021-2024

Faraan Rahim

Undergraduate Student

Years in lab: 2021-2023

Medical Student at Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

Jeffrey Zheng

Undergraduate Student

Amgen Summer Scholar: 2021

Graduate Student at UCSF, San Francisco, CA

Brandon Bui

Undergraduate Student

Years in lab: 2018-2019

Pathology Resident, Medical University of South Carolina

Katie Wilbur

Undergraduate Student

Years in lab: 2017-2018

Senior Data Scientist at Dataiku, New York, NY

Luke Tseng

Undergraduate Student

Years in lab: 2015-2017

Anesthesiology Resident at New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY

Hope Knochenhauer

Undergraduate Student

Years in lab: 2015-2017

OBGYN Physician at Duke University Hospital, Durham, NC

Jason Luo

Undergraduate Student

Years in lab: 2013-2016

Director of Analytics and Fivetran, Oakland, CA

Jonathan Jeger

Undergraduate Student

Years in lab: 2014-2016

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Resident at Mayo Clinic Arizona, Phoenix, AZ