CV

Education & Training

Postdoctoral research scientist (May 2023 - Present)

Columbia University

New York City, NY

Advisor: Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic, Ph.D.

Graduate Research Assistant (August 2018- May 2023)

Columbia University

New York City, NY

Advisor: Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic, Ph.D.

Ph.D., Biomedical Engineering (May 2023)

M.Phil., Biomedical Engineering (February 2022)

M.S., Biomedical Engineering (February 2020)

Whitaker International Research Fellow (August 2017 - August 2018)

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL)

Lausanne, Switzerland

Advisor: Olaia Naveiras, M.D., Ph.D.

Undergraduate student / research assistant (August 2013 – May 2017) 

University of Virginia (UVA), School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS) 

Charlottesville, VA

Advisor: Shayn Peirce-Cottler, Ph.D.
B.S. Biomedical Engineering with High Distinction

Honors & Awards

2023             International Society for Experimental Hematology (ISEH) T. Ray Bradley Award

2023             Yuen-huo Hung & Chao-chin Huang outstanding graduating doctoral student Award in BME

2023             ISSCR Annual Meeting Abstract Merit Award

2023             “Audience Choice” Award, Columbia 3 Minute Thesis Competition

2022             Named a “Rising Star in Engineering in Medicine” by Johns Hopkins and Columbia Universities     

2022             International Society for Experimental Hematology (ISEH) Ihor Lemishka Travel Grant

2022-2023    National Cancer Institute (NIH) F31 Ruth L. Kirschstein Pre-doctoral Fellowship    

2021             Columbia Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center (HICCC) Trainee Associate Membership

2021             Society for Biomaterials Annual Meeting STAR Award

2020             Featured in The Stem Cell Podcast “Next Generation Scientists” Trainee Episode

2020             Science Alliance Leadership Training 2020 Scholar, New York Academy of Sciences    

2019             Columbia Entrepreneurship “Fast Pitch” Competition, First Prize                                                                          

2019             NCATS ASPIRE Award for innovation in topics for the opioid epidemic, NIH

2019-2022    National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF GRFP)

2019             Honorable Mention, Ford Foundation Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, National Academies (NASEM)

2017-2018    Whitaker International Research Fellowship, Institute for International Education

2017             Outstanding Student Award, UVA School of Engineering

2017             Edgar F. Shannon University-wide Award, UVA

2017             Best Research Presentation, 30th Annual Undergraduate Research & Design Symposium, UVA

2016-2017    Undergraduate Research Excellence Fellowship (UGREF), American Physiological Society 

2016             David S. Bruce Outstanding Undergraduate Abstract Award, American Physiological Society

2015-2016    Beckman Research Scholarship, UVA Office for Research and Beckman Foundation

2015-2016    Harrison Undergraduate Research Award, UVA Office of Citizen Scholar Development 

2013-2017    Rodman Engineering Scholar, UVA School of Engineering