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Group members

Yoon-Chang (Daniel) Kim (Postdoc)Photo Yoon-Chang (Daniel) Kim | Postdoc


Nicola Mennegazzo (Postdoc)
Photo Nicola Mennegazzo


Qiongjing Zou
(Ph.D., expected graduation May 2011)
Photo Qiongjing Zou


Jing Wang (Ph.D., expected graduation May 2011)
Photo Jing Wang


Brian Herbert
(Ph.D., expected graduation May 2011)
Photo Brian Herbert


Diana Chavez
(Ph.D., expected graduation May 2011)
Photo Diana Chavez


Laurel Kegel
(Ph.D., expected graduation May 2012)
Photo Laurel Kegel


Zihui (Zoe) Zhang
(Ph.D., expected graduation 2013)
Photo Zihui (Zoe) Zhang


Devon Boyne (Ph.D., expected graduation 2014)
Photo Devon Boyne

 

Current Research

Our research interest is the development of in-situ chemical sensors for environmental, biomedical, and industrial process monitoring. Specifically, the research group has been concentrating on advancement of fiber optic surface plasmon resonance (SPR) Raman, and fluorescence sensors. In developing these sensors we meld instrumental design with advanced data analysis (Chemometrics) methods to achieve optimal instrumental performance. This research is driven by the realization that many measurement challenges – particularly problems involving analyte selectivity and sensitivity – are not best addressed by solely applying chemistry or physics solutions. These ‘physical’ solutions are often time, labor, and capital expensive. Instead, instrumental selectivity and sensitivity (and robustness) can often be enhanced by incorporating mathematical and statistical analysis of the collected data into the instrumental design.