Institute for Biology, Engineering and Medicine (I-BEAM)

Welcome to Our 33 New BME Graduate Students!

BME faculty, staff, and students along with our colleagues in the Biotechnology graduate program gathered on Pembroke field for food and fun on Tuesday, September 4th.

Students posing at an outdoor table with a structure built with spaghetti and marshmallows
Kenzie Magnan (ScM BME), Rajeev Kant (PhD BME), Sylvia Sarnik (PhD BME), Matthew Schertler (ScM Biotech), Aida Berhane (ScM BME), and their teammates Dahlia Alkekhia (PhD BME) and Gina Vimbela (ScM BME) took home first place at field day!

Welcome to our new BME graduate students

5th year Master’s Program

Zahra Ahmed, ScB (BME)
Berke Buyukkucak, ScB (BME)
Justin Lee, ScB (BME)
Matthew Lo, ScB (BME)
Lilibeth Martinez, ScB (BME)
Luke Morales, ScB (BME)
Casey Tierney, ScB (MechE)
Shirin Tooloee, ScB (BME)

Master’s Program

Quentin Altemose, BS (Biology and Physics, Ursinus College)
Adrian Bico, BS (BIOE, University of Illinois Chicago)
Sophie Brown, BS (BIOE, University of California San Diego)
Aaron Cherian, BS (BIOE, University of Maryland College Park)
Alexis Fairman, BS (BIOE, Lehigh University)
Ramisa Fariha, BS (BME, Pennsylvania State University)
Kareem Hussein, BS (BME, Purdue Univ West Lafayette)
Kenzie Magnan, BS (BME, Wentworth Institute Tech)
Alex Markoski, BS (MechE and BME, Worcester Polytechnic Institute)
Julian Montagut, BE (ChemE, McGill University)
Swathi Pisupati, BS (Neuroscience and Mathematics, Florida Atlantic University)
Ashton Stoop, BAS (MechE, Queens University Kingston)
Sheila Velagapudi, BS (BME, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)

PhD Program

Cameron Baptista, ScM (BME, Brown) – Advisor: Edith Mathiowitz
Carly Deusenbery, BS (BME, Drexel) – Advisor: Anita Shukla
Ryan Dubay, MS (Statistics, Texas A&M) – Advisor: Eric Darling
Alex Hruska, MS (BIOE, Northeastern) – Advisor: Ian Wong
Ki-Soo Jeong, BS (Biochemistry, University of Washington) – Advisor: Jonghwan Lee
Kiara Lee, BS (BIOE and BME, University of Pittsburgh) – Advisor: Anubhav Tripathi
Jiarui Nie, ScM (Biotechnology, East China University of Science and Technology) – Advisor: Jonghwan Lee
Ewina Tsam Kiu Pun, MS (BME, University of Southern California) – Advisor: Leigh Hochberg
Sylvia Sarnik, BAS (BIOE and Biosystems, MIT) – Advisor: Eric Darling
Deanna Stueber, ScM (BME, Brown) – Advisor: Vicki Colvin
Brandon Vorrius, ScM (Biotechnology, Brown) – Advisor: Qian Chen
Minglang Yin, ScM (Engineering, Brown) – Advisor: George Karniadakis