Student Assistants

Research Assistants

  • Prabha Acharya

    Prabha Acharya

    PhD in Biomedical Engineering
    Major professor:
    Dr. Moo-yeal Lee
    Research area:
    Bioprinting
  • Vincenzo Kennedy

    Vincenzo Kennedy

    PhD in Biomedical Engineering
    Major professor:
    Dr. Clement Chan
    Research area:
    Cellular and protein engineering
  • Kelsey Decker

    Kelsey Decker

    PhD in Biomedical Engineering
    Major professor:
    Dr. Youngwook Won
    Research area:
    Immunotherapy, stem cell therapy, cell engineering
  • Ala Hessami

    Ala Hessami

    PhD in Biomedical Engineering
    Major professor:
    Dr. Clement Chan
  • Nick Rogozinski

    Nick Rogozinski

    MS in Biomedical Engineernig
    Major professor:
    Dr. Huaxiao “Adam” Yang
  • Mona Zolfaghar

    Mona Zolfaghar

    PhD in Biomedical Engineering
    Major professor:
    Dr. Moo-yeal Lee
    Research area:
    Organoid cryopreservation, disease modeling

Teaching Assistants

  • Chirag Arora

    MS in Biomedical Engineernig
  • Nicole Berry

    Nicole Berry

    MS in Biomedical Engineernig
    Major professor:
    Dr. Vijay Vaidyanathan
  • Omar Cavazos

    Omar Cavazos

    PhD in Biomedical Engineering
    Major professor:
    Dr. Fateme Esmailie
    Research area:
    Thermal management for LVAD, biofluid & bioheat transfer, microfluidics
  • Anukriti Dey

    Anukriti Dey

    MS in Biomedical Engineernig
    Major professor:
    Dr. Huaxiao “Adam” Yang
    Research area:
    Studying the effects of Notch3, micropatterning, and fluid-flow on angiogenesis & vascularization using cardiac organoids
  • Faye Fouladgar

    Faye Fouladgar

    PhD in Biomedical Engineering
    Major professor:
    Dr. Neda Habibi
    Research area:
    Self-assembled peptide and proteins, drug delivery, therapeutic nanoparticles
  • Jazmine Fuentes

    Jazmine Fuentes

    MS in Biomedical Engineernig
  • Camrie Johnson

    Camrie Johnson

    MS in Biomedical Engineernig
  • Jiafeng Liu

    Jiafeng Liu

    PhD in Biomedical Engineering
    Major professor:
    Dr. Yong Yang
    Research area:
    Nanotechnology, mechanobiology, organ-on-a-chip system
  • Joy-Anne Oliver

    Joy-Anne Oliver

    PhD in Materials Science & Engineering with Biomedical Engineering concentration
    Major professor:
    Dr. Melanie Ecker and Dr. Jincheng Du
    Research area:
    Bioactive glass
  • Percyval Seddoh

    Percyval Seddoh

    MS in Biomedical Engineernig
    Major professor:
    Dr. Huaxiao “Adam” Yang

Graders