2020 Cohort
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
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
Ph.D. Candidate, Biomedical Engineering
Uses molecular tools and next-generation sequencing approaches to enable disease detection
and point-of-care diagnostics.
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
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
M.S. Candidate, Chemical Engineering
Water Sterilization Technology for Spacecrafts.
Anthony Gunderman
Ph.D. Candidate, Mechanical Engineering M.S. Candidate, Electrical Engineering
The integration and implementation of medical and soft robotics.
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
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
Postdoctoral Fellow, Biomedical Engineering
Phosphonate/bisphosphonate modification of graphene oxide for orthopedic and cardiovascular
applications.
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
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
Ph.D. Candidate, Biomedical Engineering
Works on designing and prototyping incubator friendly, microscope mountable biostretchers
to conduct mechanistic studies on cells.
Angeline Rodriguez
Ph.D. Candidate, Biomedical EngineeringFocus 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
Ph.D. Candidate, Computer Science and Computer EngineeringDesign and development of cloud-based Digital Twins for remote and distributed manufacturing in Industry 4.0