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Meet the Inaugural Class

Kitan Akinosho

BSE in Operations Research and Financial Engineering, Princeton University

Shahnoor Amin

BS Electrical Engineering, Kettering University
M.Eng. Energy Systems Engineering, University of Michigan
Ph.D. Systems Engineering, George Washington University

Roxana Azimi

BS Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Lidija Barbaric

BS Biochemistry, Chatham University

MS Biomedical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University

Aaron Brown

BS Mathematical Sciences, Commonwealth University

MS Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Georgetown University

Andrew Chang

BS Mechanical Engineering, MS Mechanical Engineering

Washington University St. Louis

Ethan Chen

BS Bioengineering, University of California Riverside

MS Software Engineering, California State University Fullerton

Valerie Chen

BS Bioengineering, Stanford University

Christine Chien

BSE Computer Science, Princeton University

Jennifer Cortes

BS Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh

Phani Gaddipati

BS Biomedical Engineering, MSE Bioengineering Innovation & Design

Johns Hopkins University

Yusi Gong

BS Biomedical Engineering, Tufts University

Kevin Gralewski

BSE, MSE Nuclear Engineering, University of Michigan

Andrea Hall

BS Mechanical Engineering, Arizona State University

Samantha Houser

BS Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology

Neel Jani

BS Bioengineering, UC Berkeley

Linus Lee

BSE Biomedical Engineering, Vanderbilt University

Matthew Lee

BA Biochemistry & Biology, MS Chemistry

University of Pennsylvania

Kenneth Leung

BS Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, UC Berkeley

MS Medical Engineering, University of Washington

Dora Lin

BA Biological Sciences, University of Chicago

MS Reproductive & Cancer Biology, Johns Hopkins

Alex Lucas

BS Chemical Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Dylan Mann

BSE Biomedical Engineering, University of Iowa

Zachary Meade

BS Electrical Engineering, University of Nebraska

Christina Moawad

BSE Biomedical Engineering, The City College of New York

Anant Naik

BS Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota

Mai Nguyen

BS Mathematics, UC Berkeley

MS, PhD, Cornell University

Kanesha Overton

BS Industrial & Systems Engineering, University of Oklahoma

Asad Rauf

BS Biomedical Engineering, University of Utah

Neha Siddiqui

BS Math, Biology & Statistics, MS Mathematics, Loyola University

Elizabeth Woodburn

BS Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Jian Zhuang

BS Math in Scientific & Industrial Applications, City College of New York

PhD Neuroscience, SUNY Downstate Medical Center

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