Members

Principle Investigator

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Yubing Sun, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

Adjunct, Biomedical Engineering

Member, MCB, MSE, NSB

Member, M2M and CPHM, IALS

Graduate Student

Narciso Pavon

B.S. Florida International University

npavon AT umass.edu

Han Jiang

M.S. Boston University

hanj AT umass.edu

Beatriz Martinez-Martin

B.S. University of San Diego

bmartinezmar AT umass.edu

Rebecca Hartman

B.S. Lafayette College

rhartman AT umass.edu

Jaivarsini Johnson

M.Tech. SASTRA DEEMED University

jaivarsinijo AT umass.edu

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Brielle Smith (Psychology)

Michael Carlone (MIE)

Lukas Nuesslein (MIE)

Rushil Patel (BME)

Lydia Kirkorian (Biology)

Caroline Gerety (BME)

Fiona Lake (Biology)

LMBM Alumni

Postdoc and Graduate Students Alumni

Narciso Pavon (Ph.D student), 2020-2025

Current Position: Advisor, Eli Lilly, Boston MA

Feiyu Yang (Ph.D student), 2017-2023

Current Position: Postdoctoral scholar, Johns Hopkins University; Maryland Stem Cell Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow

Jamar Hawkins (Ph.D student), 2018-2023

Current Position: Colossal Biosciences, Dallas, TX

Tianfa Xie (Ph.D student), 2016-2021

Current Position: Research Scientist, ScienCell Research Laboratories

Ningwei Li (Postdoctoral Fellow), 2017-2019

Current Position: Colgate

Nariman Banaei (Ph.D. student) 2017-2019

Current Position: AnaptysBio

Nader Hamzavizarghani (Postdoctoral Fellow), 2016-2017

Current Position: Scientist at Simulations Plus

Skyler St. Pierre (Research Assistant), 2019-2020

Current position: Ph.D. student, Standford

Peiran Zhu (Master Student): 2016-2018

Current Position: Founder, MOODLES

Prof. Xiaofei Song (visiting scholar): 2017-2018

Undergraduate and High School Students Alumni

Max Obermann (BME), 2025; Current Position: M.S. student, Johns Hopkins University.

Wyatt Delaney-Lefebvre (BMB), 2024

Will Kraft (Computer Science), 2023-2024.

Bella Lambros (MIE ), 2023-2024. MIE Research Star Award; NSF REU.

Jesus Tejeda (MIE ), 2023-2024. Current Position: M.S. Student, Stanford

Serena Chiasson (BME ), 2023-2024.

Lauren Brown (BME), 2020-2023; Current Position: Ph.D. Student, UPenn; NSF GRFP

Julia DeAmicis (BME), 2021, NSF REU

Yizhuo (E.J.) Chen (ChE), 2019-2020; Current position: Regeneron
Sabin Dhamala (BMB), 2019-2020; Current position: Dental student, UPenn
Raya Husami (BMB), 2019-2020

Sruthi Tanikella (BMB), 2020, NSF REU

Subiksha Parthasarathy (BME), 2018-2019; Current position: Orna Therapeutics
Benjamin Fang (Amherst High student), 2019 – 2020
Leonard Zhong (MIE), 2018-2019; Current Position: Graduate student, Georgia Institute of Technology.
Sophia Fang (Amherst High), 2016-2017; Undergraduate, MIT -> Ph.D. student, Rice.
Denise Buciuman-Coman (ChE), 2016-2018

Elizabeth Humble (ChE), 2016 – 2017; Current Position: Assistant Scientist, Bristol-Meyers-Squib

Gene Munnis (MIE Undergraduate Student), 2017
Priyanka Ghosh (ChE): 2017-2018; Technician, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
Isaac Fitts-Sprague (MIE Undergraduate Student), 2017-2018

Sid Virpura (ChE Undergraduate Student): 2017-2018

Andrew Sheu (ChE Undergraduate Student): 2017-2018

Jacob Hancock (MIE Undergraduate Student), 2017-2018

Maci Russell (ChE Undergraduate Student): 2017-2018

Sewit Fiseha (MIE Undergraduate Student), 2017-2018

Rachel Poskanzer (BMB undergraduate student), 2018-2019