Postdoc

Meet the Postdocs: Manohar Prasad Bhandari and Qing He

In honor of UC Davis’ Postdoc Appreciation Week, the college celebrates the more than 70 postdoctoral scholars making significant contributions to research, discovery and our commitment to engineering a better world for all.

Alumni Spotlight: Abby Niesen, M.S. '21, Ph.D. '23

UC Davis doctoral graduate Abby Niesen, M.S. '21, Ph.D. '23 is arguably one of the most productive doctoral students in the history of the Department of Biomedical Engineering and quite possibly the College of Engineering, according to faculty who have been associated with UC Davis for nearly 50 years.

Postdoc Profile: Tho V. Le, Ph.D., Institute of Transportation Studies

As a five-year-old, Tho V. Le watched a black-and-white movie and asked his mom: “Why is nobody in our community a singer or actor?” But as soon as he started school, Le fell in love with numbers, computers and science. He no longer wanted to become a singer or actor.

Postdoc Profile: Xiaodong Qian, Ph.D., Institute of Transportation Studies

About ten years ago, Xiaodong Qian realized the urgency and challenges of traffic in his hometown of Wuhan, China.

“All traffic had to go through one intersection near my home in a busy, commercial area. During rush hour, everybody ignored traffic lights, no one kept a safe distance and the intersection was totally congested for about two hours,” he said. At that time, he was an undergraduate student at Tsinghua University and became interested in solving traffic problems. One way to alleviate traffic congestion is to use bicycles.