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Principal Investigator: Prof. Samuel K. Sia, Ph.D.  Biography


Graduate Students

Rajib Chakravarty

B.S. (Rutgers University)

Rajib graduated with a degree in Biomedical Engineering. His current research interests are in molecular bioengineering, and would like to pursue a PhD in it.  Rajib loves soccer, basketball,  mountains, dark chocolate, and his vegetable buns.

Yukkee Cheung

B.S (Cornell)

Yukkee is a first year PhD student.  She received her bachelor degree in Electrical & Computer Engineering at Cornell University.  She has research experience in lipids patterning techniques and UV polymerization of lipids.  She likes to play basketball, badminton, and foosball.  If financially possible, she would like to start her own restaurant.

Curtis Chin

B.S. (MIT)

Curtis is a first-year PhD student.  He studied Chemical Engineering at MIT and had research experiences in drug delivery systems and analytical chemistry.  Having also an interest in global health, he wants to make tissue engineering more relevant to developing countries.  When he has spare time he likes to laugh, cry, hurl, and boohbah.

Brian Gillette

B.S. (Columbia)

Brian is a first year graduate student.  His background is in tissue engineering, computer science, and genomic studies.  He is a veteran defenseman on the Columbia Lions hockey team.  Brian loves extracellular matrix.

 

Jacob Jensen

B.S. (Univ. of Utah)

 

Hesam Parsa

M.S. (Rutgers)

 

 


Undergraduate Students

Vamsy Bobba

SEAS sophomore

Vamsy is a first year undergraduate.  He will be majoring in biomedical engineering with a minor in economics.  He is also planning on attending a combined M.D./Ph.D program after college.  His interests include cars, good jokes, traveling, and great food.

 

Anshu Das

BME junior

 
 

Dana Galla

CUNY senior

 

Martiza Harper

BME junior

 
 

Albert Kao

BME senior

 

 

Jared Malke

BME senior

 

 

Yuuya Okawa

Visiting member

 

David Shovitz

SEAS freshman

 
 

Benjamin Lee

SEAS sophomore

 
 

Jennifer Wang

SEAS sophomore

 
 

Qian Wei

BME senior

 

Alumni

Lab Member Position in Lab Current Position

Cathy Dounis

Obtained M.S., 2006

Consultant, Accenture

Ruben Bibas

Obtained M.S., 2006

Summer Scientist, Novartis

Junho Hur

Obtained M.S., 2006

Ph.D. Student, Johns Hopkins University

Wern-Jir Hsu Obtained M.S. 2007  
Jerry Lii Obtained M.S., 2006  
Neha Agarwal Obtained M.S., 2007  
Annie Szeto Obtained M.S., 2007 Research Scientist, Claros Diagnostics

 

 


Department of Biomedical Engineering   Columbia University

Last updated: February 2008