Lao Group Members

KUL Research Group, May 2022

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Current Group members

Ka Un Lao
Principal Investigator

Kalana Wickramasinghe
Ph.D. Student
(since 2023)

Luke Conley
Ph.D. Student
(since 2024)

Tammam El Kadri
Ph.D. Student
(since 2024)

Former Group Members

Former Postdocs

• Jake Tan (2022-2023): Assistant professor at the University of West Florida

Former Graduate Students

• Mi’Kayla Word (2021 Ph.D., co-advise with Dr. Tibbetts): Postdoc at Sandia National Laboratories
• Francisco Ballesteros (2024 Ph.D.): Postdoc at the University of Zürich
• Corentin Villot (2024 Ph.D.): Research Scientist at Qubit Pharmaceuticals
• Arthur Wang (2024 Master)
• Danyang Wang (2025 Ph.D.)

Former Undergraduate Students

• Shelbie Dunivan (2019-2020): Graduated with a Pharm.D. from VCU
• Brian Hua (2020-2021)
• Henry Childs (REU, 2021-2022): Ph.D. student in Chemistry at Duke University
• Christy Bouhaidar (2021-2022): Medical School at Virginia Tech
• Tony Huang (2020-2023)
• Stephen Hennessey (2023)
• Ashelyn Kyne (2023-2024): Master’s student in Chemistry at the University of Manchester

Former High School Students

• Asia Fairley (ACS Project SEED, 2023)
• Isis Olds (ACS Project SEED, 2024)
• Diamilatou Ba (ACS Project SEED, 2025)
• Cadence Tang (2025)