Program Director/Principal Investigator
Ankur Singh, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering
Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory Medicine
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
Grazia Marsico, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Ph.D., Biomedical Engineering, National University of Ireland, Galway
Previous awards: DAAD Fellow, Marie Curie ITN AngioMatTrain fellow, European Microbiology Organization (EMBO) fellowship
Research: Lymphoid Tissues
Sungwoong Kim, Ph.D.
NSF CMaT ERC Postdoctoral Fellow
Ph.D., Material Science and Engineering, Cornell University
Research: Nanoscale Devices for Immune Regulation
B.S and M.S: Hanyang University
Ph.D. Students
Tibra Wheeler
5th yr Biomedical Engineering Ph.D.
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow (2018-2021)
Sloan Fellow
Co-advisor: Prof. Marjolein van der Meulen @ Cornell University
Research: Nanogels for anti-inflammatory responses
B.S: University Of South Carolina, Columbia, SC
Kristine Lai
5th Yr Mechanical Engineering Ph.D.
Research: Microfluidics for immune tissues
BS: Mechanical Engineering, University of California at Santa Barbara
Zhe (Monica) Zhong
2nd Yr BioEngineering/Mechanical Engineering Ph.D.
Research: Germinal Center B Cell Organoids
BS: Biomedical Engineering, Boston University
Liana Kramer
3rd yr Biomedical Engineering Ph.D. (Georgia Tech)
NIH T32 Immunoengineering Fellow
Co-advisor: Prof. Krishnendu Roy
Research: B Cell Biomanufacturing
B.S & M.S: Brown University (BME)
Valeria Juarez
2nd yr Biomedical Engineering Ph.D. (Georgia Tech/Emory University)
National GEM Consortium Associate Fellow
Georgia Tech Presidential Fellowship
Research: Gut-Immune Interactions
B.S: The University of Texas at San Antonio (BME)
Manuel J. Quiñones Pérez
2nd yr Biomedical Engineering Ph.D. (Georgia Tech/Emory University)
Emory Centennial Scholarship
Goizueta Foundation Fellowship
Georgia Tech Presidential Fellowship
Research: Vaccine Immunoengineering
B.S: Industrial Biotechnology, University of Puerto Rico Mayagüez
Christopher Carlson
2nd yr Biomedical Engineering Ph.D. (Georgia Tech/Emory University)
Research: Germinal Centers
B.S: Bioengineering, University of California Merced, Merced, CA
Staff Research Associate, University of California San Francisco
Master of Science (Thesis)
Aolani Colon
1st Yr Biomedical Engineering MS (Georgia Tech)
Research: Immune technologies
BS: Rutgers University
Zhonghao (Eric) Dai
2nd year MS, Biomedical Engineering (Georgia Tech)
Research: Immunoengineering
BS: Biomedical Engineering, Boston University
Deepali Balasubramani
2nd year MS, Biomedical Engineering (Georgia Tech)
Research: Immunoengineering
BS: Biomedical Engineering, Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis
Undergraduate Researchers
Thi Dao
Dept of Biochemistry
Peter B. Sherry Memorial Scholarship recipient from School of Chemistry and Biochemistry 2021
President’s Undergraduate Research Award 2021
Summer AWIS STEM Scholarship 2021
Zell Miller Scholarship recipient
Anjum Alam
Dept of Chemical Engineering