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: NSF CMaT Postdoctoral fellow, Georgia Tech
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
Engineering learning initiative Award winner
Current Position: MD candidate at Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Katherine Lee
BS: Biomedical Engineering, Cornell University
Engineering learning initiative Award winner
Current Position: Analytics & Data Consultant – GBS Commercial Sector at IBM
Akanksha Kapoor
MEng: Biomedical Engineering, Cornell University
Current Position: Research & Development Engineer Prosidyan
Gyu-Min Calvin Lee
BS and M.Eng in Mechanical Engineering, Cornell University
Current Position: Product Development Engineer at Career Corporation
Evelyn Haynes
BS in Mechanical Engineering, Cornell University
Current Position: Developmental Engineer, Cephia Valve Technologies
Daniel Leach
BS: Human Ecology, Cornell University
Past Position: Postbaccalaureate Intramural Research Training Award Fellow@ National Institute of Health (2014-2015) )
Current Position: The University of Florida, College of Medicine, Class of 2021
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: Research Engineer at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Katrina Lastra
BS: Mechanical Engineering, Cornell University
Current Position: Product Supply Engineer 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: Research Assistant II, Division of Pharmacoepidemiology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital