Graduate Students

Graduate students are the engine behind productive research programs at WID and elsewhere. The dozens of graduate students affiliated with WID have elected to make interdisciplinary inquiry a priority in their studies and research.

Andrew Baldys

Andrew Baldys

  • Graduate Student

Engineer stimuli-responsive polymers to recapitulate developmental tissue microenvironments

Laura Borth

Laura Borth

  • Graduate Student

Folate's role in epigenetic changes that permit neuronal regeneration

Rui Chen

Rui Chen

  • Graduate Student

Stochastic Programming

Sheng Chen

Sheng Chen

  • Graduate Student

Biomass-based functional materials for applications in flexible electronics and energy.

Saman Cyrus

Saman Cyrus

  • Graduate Student

Researching the intersection of controls and optimization, optimization as robust control.

Silvia Di Gregorio

Silvia Di Gregorio

  • Graduate Student

Structural properties and cutting planes for binary polynomial optimization problems.

Caleb Dillingham

Caleb Dillingham

  • Graduate Student

Epigenetic mechanisms of somatic cell reprogramming.

Praful Gagrani

  • Graduate Student

Understanding the physics at the origins of life.

Grace George

  • Graduate Student

Neural development of pediatric PTSD.

Kirstan Gimse

Kirstan Gimse

  • Graduate Student

A CRISPR/Cas9 based therapeutic strategy for Alzheimer's disease

Spencer Haws

Spencer Haws

  • Graduate Student

Regulation of histone methylation via the sensing of methyl-donor metabolite availability.

Zhenyang Jia

Zhenyang Jia

  • Graduate Student

Evolutionary strategies for de novo peptide functions

Jingxian Jiang

Jingxian Jiang

  • Graduate Student

Biomass aerogels' preparation and application investigation

Mark Klein

Mark Klein

  • Graduate Student

Mechanisms of activating Sirtuin 6, a histone deacetylase important in epigenetic regulation.