Lab Alumni
Dr. Alberto Purwada
Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering, Cornell University
Current Position: Senior Analyst at CBPartners CBPartners | A Global Healthcare Consultancy
Dr. FNU Apoorva
Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, Cornell University
Current Position: Co-founder and CEO of Mentore.ai; Previous: Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer Iterate labs
Dr. Shivem B Shah
Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering, Cornell University
Current Position: MD Fellow at Columbia University School of Medicine
Dr. Matthew J Mosquera
Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, Cornell University
Current Position: Process Development Scientist, Teva Pharmaceuticals
Dr. Sungwoong Kim
Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering, Cornell University
Current Position: Scientist II at Sorrento Therapeutics
Dr. Jessica Elmore
Ph.D. in Immunology, Cornell University
Current Position: Cornell University
Dr. Tibra Wheeler
Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering, Cornell University
Current Position: Scientist, BD Biosciences
Dr. Kristine Lai
Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, Cornell University
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Georgia Tech
Dr. Pamela Graney
Postdoctoral Fellow, Cornell University
Current Position: Research Scientist at Columbia University
Dr. Ye Field Tian
Postdoctoral Fellow, Cornell University
Current Position: Founder and CEO, Tiger Cell Remedies (TCR), an immunotherapy company in Hangzhou, China.
Rebecca Schneider
BS in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Cornell University
Past Position: Research Scientist/Engineer II Dexcom Continuous Glucose Monitoring
Current Position: Ph.D. Student, Chemical Engineering, Georgia Tech
Regan Stephenson
MS in Biomedical Engineering, Cornell University
Current position: Ph.D. candidate at Cornell University in Claudia Fischbach-Teschl lab
Pooja Reddy
BS: Cell and Molecular Biology; Dean’s Fellow, Cornell University
Current Position: University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine, M.D. Class of 2026
Nicole Felix-Velez
BS: Biological Engineering, Cornell University, LSAMP Scholar, Winner of 2019 Engineering learning Initiatives award
Current Position: PhD student, University of California San Diego
Vincent Fan
MS: Materials Science and Engineering, Cornell University
Current Position: PhD Student, Georgia Tech
Cynthia Rishi
BS: Biomedical Engineering, Cornell University
Current Position: Research Associate, Regeneron
Dr. Sonja Eagle
BS: Biological Sciences, Cornell University
MD, Drexel Medicine Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Current Position: Resident Physician, Stanford Medicine, Emergency.
Elisabeth Abeles
BS: Arts and Sciences, Cornell University
Hunter R. Rawlings III Cornell Presidential Research Scholar
Current Position: Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, M.D. Class of 2023
Tina Jing
BS: Biomedical Engineering, Cornell University
Current Position: MD candidate at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Class of 2023
Katherine Lee
BS: Biomedical Engineering, Cornell University
Current Position: Analytics Manager – Salesforce Solution Architect at EY
Akanksha Kapoor
MEng: Biomedical Engineering, Cornell University
Current Position: Senior Research Associate at Sanofi
Gyu-Min Calvin Lee
BS and M.Eng in Mechanical Engineering, Cornell University
Current Position: Sustaining Design Engineer,
Evelyn Haynes
BS in Mechanical Engineering, Cornell University
Current Position: Engineer,
Dr. Daniel Leach
BS: Human Ecology, Cornell University
Current Position: Resident, University of Virginia, College of Medicine
Dr. Sanaya Shroff
BS in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Cornell University
Current Position: Ph.D. Candidate, Biomedical Engineering at Boston University
Peter Gu
BS, Physics; MEng in Mechanical Engineering, Cornell University
Current Position: ReseaLead Software Engineer at Capital One
Katrina Lastra
BS: Mechanical Engineering, Cornell University
Current Position: Senior Manager, Mechanical Engineering Leader at Procter & Gamble
Shreya Venkatesh
BS: Mechanical Engineering, Cornell University
John McMullen Dean’s Scholar
Current Position: PhD student at Univ of Colorado, Boulder
Sydney Oraskovich
BS: Electrical Engineering, Cornell University
Current Position: PhD student, University of California Berkeley
Cassandra York
BS: Biological Engineering, Cornell University
Current Position: Global Epidemiology MPH Candidate at Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University
Halee Kim
BS: Biomedical Engineering, Cornell University
Current Position: Cell Biologist at Draper, Boston
Cynthia Rishi
BS: Biomedical Engineering, Cornell University
Current Position: Analyst at The Dedham Group, NYC
Thi Dao: Biochemistry (Georgia Tech ’23); Peter B. Sherry Memorial Scholarship, 2021, President’s Undergraduate Research Award 2021, Summer AWIS STEM Scholarship 2021, Zell Miller Scholarship;