Graduate Students
Nate Linden
3rd Year, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (Co-Advisor:
Boris Kramer)
Education: University of Washington (BS in Bioengineering)
Research Interests: Parameter Estimation, Cellular Signaling, Data-Driven Modeling
Website link
Contact Information: nlinden@ucsd.edu
Maria Hernandez Mesa
2nd Year Graduate Student, Department of Informatics (University of Oslo)
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
Education: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (MS Electrical Engineering and Information Technology)
Research Interests: Intracellular signaling pathways, Computational methods
GitHub link
Contact: mariahernandez@simula.no
Kyle Stark
2nd Year Graduate Student, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Education: Rutgers University, New Brunswick (BS Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering)
Research Interests: Cell mechanics, Cell signaling, Tissue engineering, Multi-scale modeling, Computational methods
Contact: kstark@ucsd.edu
Yuzhu Chen
3rd Year Graduate Student, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (Co-Advisor: David Saintillan)
Education:
Fudan University, Shanghai, China (M.Sc. in Fluid Mechanics)
Fudan University, Shanghai, China (B.Sc. in Physics)
Research Interests: Continuum mechanics, Soft matter physics, Cell mechanics
Contact: yuc034@ucsd.edu
Anusha Kumar
2nd Year MS Student, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Education:
Purdue University (BS Biomedical Engineering)
Research Interests: Cellular Signaling, Continuum Mechanics and Biomechanics
Contact: ank012@ucsd.edu
Natalia Reis
2nd Year Graduate Student, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry (Co-Advisor: Itay Budin)
Education:
Montclair State University, Montclair (BS Biochemistry)
Research Interests: Computational Biophysics – Molecular Dynamics of lipid membrane, Cell mechanics
Contact: nreis@ucsd.edu
Ji Yeon Hyun
1st Year, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Education:
Yonsei University (MS in Biomedical Engineering)
Yonsei University (BS in Biomedical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering)
Research Interests: Cell Motility, Membrane Mechanics
Contact: jihyun@ucsd.edu
Ingvild Devold
1st Year, Simula Research Laboratory / University of Oslo
Education: Norwegian University of Science and Technology (M.Sc. Applied Physics and Mathematics)
Research Interests: Mathematical Modeling, Scientific Computing
Contact: ingvildsd@simula.no
Danny Mansour
2nd Year, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Education: University of Chicago (BS in Chemistry and BS in Biological Chemistry)
Research Interests: Agent-based, Multi-scale modeling
Contact: dmansour@ucsd.edu