Team
David Erickson, PhD
SC Thomas Sze Director and Sibley College Professor
Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Joint Professor of Nutritional Sciences
Director, PORTENT Center for Point of Care Technologies for Nutrition, Infection and Cancer for Global Health.
Director, Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
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Jason Manning
Biomedical Engineering Ph.D.
Jason is developing new methods of biopsy sample processing in limited resource settings.
Wenting Gao
Biomedical Engineering Ph.D.
Wenting is developing a diagnostic test for breast cancer typing in limited resource settings as well as a new version of the FeverPhone technology.
Darke Hull
Biomedical Engineering Ph.D.
Darke is developing a new approach to precision nutrition through artificial intelligence.
Hannah James
Mechanical Engineering Ph.D.
Hannah is developing a new method for virtual fencing of cattle in limited resource settings.
Thea Nikolaou
Biomedical Engineering Ph.D.
Thea is developing a series of new technologies for improving the manage of cattle on the “Farm of the Future”
Kirtana Devaraj
Biomedical Engineering PhD Student
Kirtana is developing point of care diagnostics for limited resource settings.
Peter Wieber
Biomedical Engineering PhD Student
Peter is developing point of care diagnostics for limited resource settings.
Coraline Chu
Mechanical Engineering PhD Student
Coraline is validating a point of care system for diagnosis of Kaposi’s Sarcoma in Limited Resource Settings.
Brooke Filanoski
Biomedical Engineering Ph.D.
Brooke is developing paper based point-of-care device for nucleic acid based detection of infectious disease and working on new methods for evaluating engineered living materials.
- Juan Boza ’24 – PhD Biomedical Engineering
- Iftak Hussain – (2022-2024) PostDoc
- Richard Hoff ’23 – M.S. Biomedical Engineering
- Duncan McCloskey ’22 – Ph.D. Biomedical Engineering
- Taylor Oeschger ’22 – Ph.D. Biomedical Engineering
- Yue Ren ’22 – Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering
- Elvis Cao ’21 – Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering Engineering
- Ruisheng (Rick) Wang ’20 – Ph.D. Biomedical Engineering
- Ryan Snodgrass ’19 – Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering
- Sasank Vemulapati ’19 – Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering
- Elizabeth Rey ’19 – Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering
- Yuval Kaminer ’19 – M.S. Mechanical Engineering
- Zhengda Lu ’19 – Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering
- Serge Yhombi (2016-2018) – Postdoc
- Varun Kopparthy (2016-2019) – Postdoc
- Perry Schein ’17 – Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering
- Elizabeth Case ’17 – M.Sc. Mechanical Engineering
- Dakota O’Dell ’16 – Ph.D. Applied Physics
- Aadhar Jain ’16 – Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering
- Seoho Lee ’16 – Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering
- Abdurrahman Gumus ’14 – Ph.D. Electrical Engineering
- Saad ’14 – Ph.D. Applied Physics
- Pilgyu Kang ’14 – Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering
- Li Jiang ’14 – Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering
- Erica Jung ’13 – Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering
- Matthew Mancuso ’14 – Ph.D. Biomedical Engineering
- Vlad Oncescu ’13 – Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering
- Michael Kalontarov ’13 – Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering
- Michael Mak ’13 – Ph.D. Biomedical Engineering
- Xavier Serey ’13 – Ph.D. Applied Physics
- Sean Moore ’11 – MS Mechanical Engineering
- Aram Chung ’11 – Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering
- Mekala Krishnan ’11 – Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering
- Yih-Fan Chen (2010-2011) – Postdoc
- Inhee Choi (2009-2011) – Postdoc
- Bernardo Cordovez ’10 – Ph.D./Postdoc Mechanical Engineering
- Allen Yang ’10 – Ph.D. Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering