Fall of 2023! Winter of 2022!
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
Research: Aging and ImmuneEngineering
BS: University of Wisconsin – Madison (ChemE and Biochem)
Email: rringquist3@gatech.edu
Dr. Eshant Bhatia
Ph.D., Biomedical Engineering, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India
Research: Mucosal-Systemic ImmuneEngineering
BS: University of Delhi
Email: eshant.bhatia@me.gatech.edu
Dr. Ameya Atul Dravid
Ph.D. Bioengineering, Indian Institute of Science
Research: Cell therapy, Immunoengineering
Website: https://ameyadravid.com/
*Co-advised by Prof. Andrés García
Email: adravid6@gatech.edu
Dr. Secil Demir
PhD, Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering, National University of Ireland, Galway
Previous awards: CÚRAM Fellowship
Research: Neuro ImmuneEngineering
BS: Istanbul University; MS: Yeditepe University
Ph.D. Students
Zhe (Monica) Zhong
5th Yr BioEngineering/Mechanical Engineering Ph.D.
Research: Human Immune Organoid Engineering
BS: Biomedical Engineering, Boston University
Olivia Jones
1st yr Biomedical Engineering PhD., Georgia Tech/Emory University
Georgia Tech Presidential Fellowship
Research: Human Immune Organoid Engineering
B.S./M.S.: Biomedical Engineering, Drexel University
Valeria Juarez
5th yr Biomedical Engineering Ph.D., Georgia Tech/Emory University
NIH T32 Cell and Tissue Engineering Training Fellow
National Science Foundation GRFP Fellow
National GEM Consortium Associate Fellow
Georgia Tech Presidential Fellowship
Research: Human Gut-Immune Interactions
B.S: The University of Texas at San Antonio (BME)
Manuel J. Quiñones Pérez
5th 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
5th 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
3rd yr Biomedical Engineering Ph.D., Georgia Tech/Emory University
National Science Foundation GRFP Fellow
Research: Cancer Immunoengineering and T Cell Synapse
B.S: Biomedical engineering, Vanderbilt University
Zhonghao (Eric) Dai
3rd Year BioEngineering/Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Tech
Research: Nanoscale Immune and Cancer Engineering
BS: Biomedical Engineering, Boston University; MS: Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Tech
Deepali Balasubramani
3rd Year Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Tech
Research: Lymphoma and Human Immune Organoid Engineering
NIH T32 ImmunoEngineering Training Fellow
BS: Biomedical Engineering, Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis; MS: Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Tech
Hyeon Ju Song
3rd yr Biomedical Engineering Ph.D., Georgia Tech/Emory University
NIH T32 Cell and Tissue Engineering Training Fellow
Georgia Tech Presidential Fellow
Research: Human Immune Organoid Engineering
B.S/MS: Biomedical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
Shaylyn Grier
3rd 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
1st Year Biomedical Engineering Ph.D., Georgia Tech/Emory University
Research: T-cell Engineering to Regulate Cytokine Release Syndrome
B.S.: Biomedical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin
Shwetha Sridhar
1st 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
Master of Science (Thesis)
Diya Ramchandani
1st yr Biomedical Engineering MS Thesis student, Georgia Tech/Emory University
Research: B-cell Engineering
B.S: University of Texas, Arlington (Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering)
Sarah Ritchie
1st yr Biomedical Engineering MS Thesis student, Georgia Tech/Emory University
Research: Lymphoma BioEngineering
B.S: Georgia Tech Biomedical Engineering
Undergraduate Researchers
Sona Desai: Biomedical Engineering (Georgia Tech ’25); Mentor: Secil Demir
Sriya Surapaneni: Biomedical Engineering (Georgia Tech ’25); Mentor: Valeria Juarez
Alejandro Andres Molina: Biochemistry (Georgia Tech ‘25); ORISE Summer Fellowship @ CDC; Dean’s List; Mentor: Manuel Quinones Perez
Anna Pawlowski Biochemistry (Georgia Tech ’24) Mentor: Alyssa Montalbine
Anjali Patel: Biomedical Engineering (Georgia Tech ’24); Dean’s List; Mentor: Zhe Monica Zhong
Pratul Amineni: Biomedical Engineering (Georgia Tech ’24); Mentor: Deepali Balasubramani
Moustafa El-Mattrawy: Biomedical engineering (Georgia Tech ‘25); Mentor: Chris Carlson
Stephanie Vagelos: Biology (Georgia Tech ’25); Mentor: Manuel Quinones Perez
High School Students:
Phunterion Phillips (D.M. Therrell High School; Graduating Class of 2024); ENGAGES High School Researcher
Lakshita Ramesh (