Undergraduate Students

Gabriel Kengni Jr. (Summer 2025)

B.S. in Biochemistry, Expected 2026 (University of Maryland, Baltimore County)

Mentors: Ellen Garner

Alicia Huynh (Spring 2025-Present)

B.S. in Biomedical Engineering, Expected 2027

Mentors: Josette Vigil

Shreya Manikandan (Spring 2025-Present)

B.S. in Biology & Society, Expected 2026

Mentors: Ellen Garner

Chinmay Mangalgi (Fall 2024-Present)

B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Expected 2027

Mentors: Ellen Garner, Josette Vigil

  • Recipient of Summer 2025 ELI Funding

Joshua Lee (Summer 2024-Present)

B.S. in Biomedical Engineering, Expected 2026

Mentors: Ben Johnston, Sam Allen

  • Recipient of Summer 2025 ELI Funding

Undergraduate Alumni

Modupe Oridota (Summer 2023 – Spring 2025)

B.S. in Biomedical Engineering, 2025

Mentors: Diane Stonestreet

  • Participant in Summer 2023 Future Leaders in Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering (FLAME) program
  • Recipient of Summer 2024 ELI Funding
  • BMES Poster Presentation Fall 2024

Eduardo Barajas (Summer 2024)

B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Expected 2025 (University of California Berkeley)

Mentors: Diane Stonestreet, Ben Johnston

  • Participant in Summer 2024 Future Leaders in Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering (FLAME) program

Now: Continuing undergraduate studies at UC Berkeley

Jung-Me Allison Lee (Fall 2021 – Spring 2024)

B.S. in Human Biology, Health, and Society in Human Ecology, 2024

Justin Wei (Summer 2021-2022)

B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Expected 2024

  • Recipient of Summer 2021 ELI Funding
  • Recipient of Summer 2022 ELI Funding

Molly Brakewood (Spring 2021 – Spring 2023)

B.S. in Biomedical Engineering, 2023

  • Recipient of Summer 2021 Sterry Career Exploration Award
  • Recipient of 2021 CURB Fall Forum Best Presentation Award (Design & Engineering Category)

Chanelle Moise (Fall 2020 – Spring 2023)

B.S. in Biomedical Engineering, 2023

Now: PhD Student at University of Massachusetts Amherst

Migueljose Baeza (Summer 2022)

B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Expected 2023 (University of California Berkeley)

  • Participant in Summer 2022 Future Leaders in Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering (FLAME) program

Now: Continuing undergraduate studies at UC Berkeley

Garrett Ruff (Fall 2020 – Present)

B.S. in Human Biology, Health and Society in Human Ecology, 2022

Minor in Biomedical Engineering

  • Recipient of 2020-2021 Ruthanna Wood Davis Award

Now: MD-PhD Student at New York University

Claire Chen (Spring 2020 – Fall 2021)

B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, 2022

  • Recipient of Spring 2021 ELI Funding
  • Recipient of Fall 2021 ELI Funding
  • Recipient of 2021 CURB Fall Forum Exceptional Explanation Poster Award (Design & Engineering Category)

Now: Mechanical Engineering PhD Student at Boston University

Ethan Liu (Summer 2019 – Fall 2021)

B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, 2021

  • Recipient of Fall 2020 ELI Funding
  • Recipient of Fall 2021 ELI Funding

Now: Engineer at Hyperfine

Hunter Nourzad (Summer 2021)

B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, 2022

Now: Engineering Master’s Student at Penn State University

Shreya Venkatesh (Fall 2019 – Spring 2021)

B.S. in Biomedical Engineering, 2021

Senior Thesis: Enzymatic Depletion Highlights Elastin’s Role on Tendon Fatigue Damage

Now: Mechanical Engineering PhD Student at University of Colorado Boulder

Harleen Suri (Spring 2018 – Fall 2020)

B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, 2020

  • John McMullen Dean’s Scholar

Now: Engineer at Booz Allen Hamilton

Cassidy Higgins (Summer 2018 – Present)

B.S. in Biomedical Engineering, 2020

  • Recipient of Summer 2019 ELI Funding

Now: Research Assistant at The Feinstein Institutes

Brenna Vaughn (Summer 2019 – Spring 2020)

B.S. in Biology and Korean Studies, 2020

  • Recipient of 2019-2020 Dextra Undergraduate Research Endowment Fund from Cornell CALS

Now: Biomedical Engineering PhD Student at Purdue University

Ai Mochida (Spring 2018 – Spring 2020)

B.S. in Biomedical Engineering, 2020

Senior Thesis: In vitro Investigation of the Effects of Hypoxia and Extracellular Matrix Coatings on Resident Tenocyte Behavior in Regenerative Murphy Roth’s Large Mice

  • Recipient of Fall 2019 Travel Scholarship from the Assistant Dean’s Office at the College of Engineering

Now: Bioengineering PhD Student at the University of Pennsylvania

Daniel Massillon (Summer 2019 – Present)

B.S. in Biological Sciences, 2020

  • Recipient of Summer 2019 SEG Funding

Pallavi Nambiar (Spring 2018 – Spring 2019)

B.S. in Biomedical Engineering, 2020

Caeli MacLennan (Spring 2018 – Spring 2019)

B.S. in Biomedical Engineering, 2020

Ashley Pekmezian (Summer 2017 – Spring 2019)

B.S. in Biomedical Engineering, 2019

Now: Medical student at the University of Central Florida College of Medicine

Bhavya Bhushan (Spring 2018 – Fall 2018)

B.S. in Biomedical Engineering, 2020

  • Recipient of Summer 2018 ELI Funding

Grant Feuer (Summer 2018 – Fall 2018)

B.S. in Biomedical Engineering, 2020

Allie Buccino (Summer 2018 – Fall 2018)

B.S. in Biomedical Engineering, 2020

Jarod Guzik (Summer 2018 – Fall 2018)

B.S. in Biomedical Engineering, 2020

  • Recipient of Summer 2018 ELI Funding

Stacey Wong (Spring 2018 – Fall 2018)

B.S. in Biomedical Engineering,  2020

Michael Lavy (Summer 2018)

B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, 2021

Sochima Bishop (Spring 2018)

B.S. in Biological Engineering, 2019

Alexander Rodriguez (Summer 2017 – Fall 2017)

B.S. in Biological Engineering, 2019