People

Reza Kalhor
Principal Investigator
Weixiang Fang
Postdoctoral Fellow
Biomedical Engineering
WanYing (Jenny) Lin
Sr. Research Specialist
Biomedical Engineering
Chien-Ju Chen
Postdoctoral Fellow
Biomedical Engineering
(Joint with Kebschull Lab)
Dustin Shigaki
Postdoctoral Fellow
Biomedical Engineering
Kent Rapp
Postdoctoral Fellow
Biomedical Engineering
Soichiro Asami
Ph.D. Student
Biomedical Engineering
David Johanson
Ph.D. Student
XD-Bio
Rachel Dveirin
Ph.D. Student
Biomedical Engineering
James Forsmo
Ph.D. Student
Biomedical Engineering
Caroline Ghio
Ph.D. Student
Biomedical Engineering
Jinwoo Jun
Ph.D. Student
Biomedical Engineering
Jessica Lin
Ph.D. Student
Neuroscience
Fenmiao Zhong
Ph.D. Student
BCMB
Jiaoyang (Clarice) Li
Master’s Student
Biotechnology
Ella Holtermann
Undergraduate Student
Biomedical Engineering
Nyasia Brown
Undergraduate Student
Biomedical Engineering
William Chavez
Undergraduate Student
Molecular & Cell Biology
Luca Fang
Undergraduate Student
Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
Ginkgo Radnejad-Daniels
Whimsy Specialist
Chemex
Coffee Specialist

Former members

Jesse Handler
Oncology Fellow
Sep 2021 – June 2025
Ashwin Rajendran
BME Master’s Student
Sep 2023 – May 2025
Levon Galstyan
Bioinformatics Master’s Student
‌June 2024 – May 2025
Chenshuo Yin
Neuroscience Undergraduate
Dec 2022 – May 2025
Melanie Vazquez Arroyo
BME Undergraduate Student
Dec 2022 – May 2025
Lilia Hmadate
WISE High School Intern
Feb 2025 – May 2025
Yi Yang
BME Master’s Student
Dec 2022 – Jul 2024
Smriti Srikanth
BME Undergraduate Student
Nov 2022 – May 2024
Maha Saleh
WISE High School Intern
Feb 2024 – May 2024
Oumou Sall
WISE High School Intern
Feb 2024 – May 2024
Alex McMahon
Research Specialist II
Sep 2023 – Apr 2024
Jasmine Shahied
Research Specialist
Sep 2022 — Jan 2024
Ruiyang (Audrey) Huang
WISE High School Intern
Sep 2023 — Jan 2024
Alberto Marin-Gonzalez
Visiting Postdoc (Ha Lab)
Oct 2020 — Aug 2023
Taher Haitami
BME Undergraduate Student
Mar 2020 – Aug 2023
Zijie Li
ChemBE Master’s Student
Oct 2021 — Jun 2023
Saksham Gupta
Biotechnology Master’s Student
Apr 2021 – Dec 2022
Claire Bell
Visiting Ph.D. Student (Zack lab)
Jan 2020 – Oct 2022
Abel Sapirstein
Visiting Ph.D. Student
Jun 2020 – Sep 2022
Talaeya Chambers
Undergraduate Summer Intern
Jun 2022 – Aug 2022
Kathleen Leeper
Founding Lab Manager Emeritus
Oct 2019 – Dec 2021
Lujain Alaali
Biotechnology Master’s Student
Jan 2020 – Dec 2020