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Dr. Xi (Charlie) Ren
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Courtesy Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
Dean's Early Career Fellow
Faculty Member, McGowan Institute of Regenerative Medicine
Ph.D., Cell Biology, Peking University, 2011
B.S., Biological Science, Peking University, 2005
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Yunhui Xing
Ph.D. student
B.S., Southern University of Science and Technology
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Zihan (Andrew) Ling
Ph.D. student
B.S., Peking University
Ph.D. student
B.S., Peking University
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Ellen Otto
Ph.D. student (Co-advised by Prof. Phil Campbell)
M.S., Carnegie Mellon University
B.S., College of Saint Benedict and Saint John’s University
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Barbie Varghese
Ph.D. student
M.S., Carnegie Mellon University
B.S., Rutgers University
Ph.D. student
M.S., Carnegie Mellon University
B.S., Rutgers University
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Cecilia Padilla
Ph.D. student (Co-advised by Prof. Keith Cook)
B.S., MIT
Ph.D. student (Co-advised by Prof. Keith Cook)
B.S., MIT
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Dhruv Bhattaram
Ph.D. student
B.S., M.S., Georgia Institute of Technology
Zhuowei Gong
M.S. student
B.S., East China University of Science and Technology
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Vanessa Serna Villa
M.S. student
B.S., Binghamton University
M.S. student
B.S., Binghamton University
Lab Alumni:
Weitao Wang (PhD, 2019-2023): then Postdoc @ CMU |
Piyumi Wijesekara (PhD, 2018-2022): then Postdoc @NASA |
Michael Hu (MS, 2020-2022): then PhD @University of Michigan |
Shierly Fok Lau (MS, 2019-2020): then, PhD @UC Davis |
Elizabeth Johnston (MS, 2018-2020): then, PhD @ CMU |
Julia Eve Napolitano (MS, 2018-2019): then, TARA Biosystems |
Taurus Feng (MS, 2018-2019): then, Shenzhen Excellent Technology |
Njaire McKoy (MS, 2018-2019): then, Medtronic |
Gaurav Balakrishnan (UG, 2018-2019): then, PhD @CMU |