Chuan obtained his PhD from the CBE department of Princeton University, where his research was supported by the prestigious National Defense Science & Engineering Graduate Fellowship (NDSEG) and has also received the Gordon Wu Prize for Excellence at Princeton University. He specializes in the area of nanoparticle preparation and physics of polymers under nanoscale confinement and has published over 10 manuscripts in peer-reviewed journals.

Vikram Pansare is currently pursuing a PhD in Chemical Engineering at Princeton University where he expects to graduate in 2014. He has won awards for teaching excellence and research commercialization (Innovation Forum 2011 & 2014, Princeton University), and has completed internships at high-tech startups and mid-size companies. His research is primarily in nanoparticle biomedical imaging agents and nanoparticle processing.

Rodney is Assistant Professor in the CBE department at Princeton University. He obtained his PhD in Chemical Engineering from Northwestern University in 2008. As a professor, his research interests include polymer glasses, nanoconfined polymer dynamics, polymer thin film and nanoparticle formation, and responsive polymers. His many awards include the NSF Career Award, the Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, and the Camille-Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award.