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.
Stefan Pietrzak
Transcriptional and epigenetic mechanisms regulating cellular differentiation and reprogramming
Josh Rawlins
Human cell engineering including CRISPR gene editing and epigenetic reprogramming
Shivani Saxena
Engineering cells and organism via genome editing and studying the delivery method for CRISPR/Cas9
Melissa Schoenlein
Role of perceptual features (e.g. color) in cognitive processing and information visualization
Yunyi Shen
Graduate Assistant
Statistical models that reconstruct the interaction networks among microbes and experimental design
Demitri Shotwell
Polymers and research and design of equipment for the life science industry.
Scott Sievert
Large scale machine learning, distributed optimization and active learning.
Alana Stempien
Promoting cardiomyocyte maturation with applications in drug testing and disease modeling
Akhil Sundararajan
Convergence analysis of convex optimization algorithms using techniques from robust control theory
Lena Vincent
The chemical origins of life and the potential for life on other worlds
Britney Washington
Cryopreservation's effect on cell isolates and manufactured therapeutic phenotypes
