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