Meet the Innovation Scholars

2020 Cohort

Layla Al-Mitib

Layla Al-Mitib

Ph.D. Candidate, Cell and Molecular Biology

Development of a recipe that can help relieving eczema by using chitosan.

Mark D. Bowling

Mark D. Bowling

PhD ELEG, Online MSEE-ELEG

Use of UVC LEDs and FarUV excimer Lasers for sterilization and decontamination of pathogens and development of materials for Far UV LEDs for pathogen decontamination of air and surfaces.

Landon Burcham

Landon Burcham

Ph.D. Candidate, Biomedical Engineering

Uses molecular tools and next-generation sequencing approaches to enable disease detection and point-of-care diagnostics.

Emilio Duverna

Emilio Duverna

Ph.D. candidate, Cell and Molecular Biology

Investigating the inhibitory potency of small molecule drug candidates to fight Ras-related cancers.

Shelby Foster

Shelby Foster

Ph.D. Candidate, Chemical Engineering, Executive MBA Candidate

Owns a start up company, CatalyzeH2O, with a focus on innovative water treatment technologies. CatalyzeH2O is building two platform technologies for challenging water treatment applications: (1) a filtration membrane and (2) an electrochemical catalyst.

Rogelio Garcia

Rogelio Garcia

M.S. Candidate, Chemical Engineering

Water Sterilization Technology for Spacecrafts.

Anthony Gunderman

Anthony Gunderman

Ph.D. Candidate, Mechanical Engineering M.S. Candidate, Electrical Engineering

The integration and implementation of medical and soft robotics.

Olivia Kolenc

Olivia Kolenc

Ph.D. Candidate, Biomedical Engineering

Uses autofluorescence imaging to study cellular metabolism and is working on developing a tool for integrating biological context to label-free metabolic data to improve data analysis.

John Moore

John Moore

Ph.D. Candidate, Chemical Engineering

A spray-on anti-viral and anti-bacterial all-natural surface that can be used to stop the spread of infectious disease in high contact areas.


Asya Ozkizilcik

Asya Ozkizilcik

Postdoctoral Fellow, Biomedical Engineering

Phosphonate/bisphosphonate modification of graphene oxide for orthopedic and cardiovascular applications.

 

Tanmoy Patra

Tanmoy Patra

Postdoctoral Fellow, Biomedical Engineering

Development of reusable membrane catalytic reactor for biomass plants and chemical manufacturing companies that converts biomass waste into chemical intermediates.

Colin Phelan

Colin Phelan

M.S. Candidate, Mechanical Engineering

Novel nano-surface texturing technology which displays great structural integrity while reducing the friction and adhesion forces of the surface it is applied upon.

Prashanth Ravishankar

Prashanth Ravishankar

Ph.D. Candidate, Biomedical Engineering

Works on designing and prototyping incubator friendly, microscope mountable biostretchers to conduct mechanistic studies on cells.

 

Angeline Rodriguez

Angeline Rodriguez

Ph.D. Candidate, Biomedical Engineering

Focus on recharacterizing an animal model (UCD 200/206) that expresses all the signs and symptoms of a rare autoimmune disease (Systemic Sclerosis).

 

Md Rakib Shahriar

Md Rakib Shahriar

Ph.D. Candidate, Computer Science and Computer Engineering

Design and development of cloud-based Digital Twins for remote and distributed manufacturing in Industry 4.0