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Principle Investigator

Ankur Singh, Ph.D.

Carl Ring Family Professor
George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering
Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory Medicine
Georgia Institute of Technology

Director, Center for Immunoengineering at Georgia Tech

Office: 1306, Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Biosciences (IBB)
Georgia Institute of Technology
315 Ferst Drive, Atlanta, GA 30332-0363

Phone: 404.894.5150
email: ankur.singh@gatech.edu

Postdoctoral Fellow

Dr. Rachel Ringquist
Ph.D, BioEngineering (Chemical and Biomolecular Eng.), Georgia Tech, USA
Research: Aging and ImmuneEngineering, Immune-competent Lung-on-a-Chip

BS: University of Wisconsin – Madison (ChemE and Biochem)

Dr. Eshant Bhatia
Ph.D. Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India

Research: Engineering mucosal and systemic immune responses to infections in humans, Immune-competent Lung-on-a-Chip, Biomaterials, Immunoengineering.
M.Sc. Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India 
B.Sc. (Honors) Biomedical Sciences, University of Delhi, India

Dr. Ameya Atul Dravid
Ph.D. Bioengineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
Research: Engineered Immune Organoids & Biomaterial-Enabled B-Cell Therapies
Website: https://ameyadravid.com/
*Co-advised by Prof. Andrés García
B.Tech Biotechnology, VIT Vellore

Dr. Ishita Jain
PhD, Biomedical Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA
American Heart Association Fellow
Research: Lymphatics ImmuneEngineering
BS: IIT Kanpur, India

Ph.D. Students

Zhe (Monica) Zhong
6th Yr BioEngineering/Mechanical Engineering Ph.D.
Rising Stars in Mechanical Engineering — MIT, 2024 Outstanding
Paper — Georgia Tech Bioengineering Program Award, GT NEXT Award, Student Award — Society For Biomaterials
Research: Human Immune Organoid Engineering
BS: Biomedical Engineering, Boston University

Olivia Jones
2nd yr Biomedical Engineering PhD, Georgia Tech/Emory University
Georgia Tech Presidential Fellowship, NIH T32 CTEng Fellowship
Research: Human Immune Organoid Engineering
B.S./M.S.: Biomedical Engineering, Drexel University

Valeria Juarez
6th yr Biomedical Engineering Ph.D., Georgia Tech/Emory University
Georgia Tech Pathbreakers Fellow; NIH T32 Cell and Tissue Engineering Training Fellow
National Science Foundation GRFP Fellow; National GEM Consortium Associate Fellow
Georgia Tech GradREACH Fellow; Georgia Tech Goizueta Fellow; Georgia Tech Presidential Fellowship
Research: Engineered Immune Organoids for exploring Gut-Immune Interactions
B.S: The University of Texas at San Antonio (BME)

Manuel J. Quiñones Pérez
6th yr Biomedical Engineering Ph.D., Georgia Tech/Emory University

NIH T32 Cell and Tissue Engineering Training Fellow

Emory Centennial Scholarship
Goizueta Foundation Fellowship
Georgia Tech Presidential Fellowship
Research: Human Immune Organoid Engineering for Vaccine Immunoengineering
B.S: Industrial Biotechnology, University of Puerto Rico Mayagüez

Christopher Carlson
6th yr Biomedical Engineering Ph.D., Georgia Tech/Emory University
Research: Lymphoma and Human Immune Organoid Engineering
B.S: Bioengineering, University of California Merced, Merced, CA
Staff Research Associate, University of California San Francisco

Lucy Britto
4th yr Biomedical Engineering PhD, Georgia Tech/Emory University
National Science Foundation GRFP Fellow; Georgia Tech Goizueta Fellow
Emory Centennial Scholars Fellow; Emory Women in Natural Science Fellow
Research: Engineered Lymphoma Organoids, Immune Synapse
B.E.: Biomedical Engineering, Vanderbilt University

Zhonghao (Eric) Dai
4th Year BioEngineering/Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Tech
Research: Nanoscale Immune and Cancer Engineering
BS: Biomedical Engineering, Boston University; MS: Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Tech

Deepali Balasubramani
4th Year Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Tech
NIH T32 ImmunoEngineering Training Fellow
Research: Lymphoma and Human Immune Organoid Engineering
BS: Biomedical Engineering, Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis; MS: Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Tech

Hyeon Ju Song
4th yr Biomedical Engineering PhD, Georgia Tech/Emory University
Georgia Tech Presidential Fellowship, NIH T32 CTEng Fellowship
Research: Human Immune Organoid Engineering
B.S./M.S.: Mechanical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University

Shaylyn Grier
4th yr Biomedical Engineering Ph.D., Georgia Tech/Emory University
GT President’s Fellow; Emory Centennial Scholar Fellow; Emory Women in Natural Sciences (WiNS) Fellow
NSF Graduate Research Fellow
Research: T-cell Engineering using Nanowires
B.S: Florida International University (BME)

Anton Simieou
2nd Year Biomedical Engineering Ph.D., Georgia Tech/Emory University
Research: PDAC and Human Immune Organoid Engineering
B.S.: Biomedical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin

Shwetha Sridhar
2nd year BioEngineering/Biomedical Engineering Ph.D., Georgia Tech
Research: Cancer Immunoengineering
M.S: Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Tech
B.S: Biomedical Engineering, SSN College of Engineering, India

Adya Verma
1st yr Biomedical Engineering PhD, Georgia Tech/Emory University
Georgia Tech Presidential Fellowship
Research: Immune-competent Lung and immune cell engineering
B.S.: Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Tech

Master of Science (Thesis)

Diya Ramchandani
2nd yr Biomedical Engineering MS Thesis student, Georgia Tech/Emory University
Research: B-cell Engineering
B.S: University of Texas, Arlington (Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering)

Jiacheng (Tom) Huang
2nd yr Biomedical Engineering Master, Georgia Tech
Research: Epigenetics in Human Immune Organoid
B.S.: Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Undergraduate Researchers

Param Desai
2nd year Biomedical Engineering UG, Georgia Tech
Research: Organoid Engineering

Shray Saheba
B.S. Biomedical Engineering Georgia Tech ’27
Research: Human Immune Organoid Engineering

Samika Ranjan
3rd yr Computer Science UG, Georgia Tech
Research: Lymphoma-associated regulatory and transcriptional networks

Rajeev Harish
3rd Year B.S. Biomedical Engineering Georgia Tech ’27
Research: Microgel-Based Immune Organoid Engineering