Matt Entorf graduated with a B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering from Iowa State University where he did some research in the hydrolysis of oligosaccharides from distillers grains using silica catalyst.  His current M.S. degree work with Dr. Narsimhan involves characterizing foam stabilized by macromolecules.

Xiaoyu Wu earned his B.S. degree from the Department of Chemical Engineering in July 1999, and a M.S. degree from the Department of Biological Sciences and Technology at Tsinghua University .  His M.S. research involved the stability of Endostatin, an angiogenesis protein in different conditions. He joined Dr. Narsimhan's group in August of 2004 to pursue a Ph.D. degree and is working on the project of determining the structure properties of selected proteins on different interfaces.