BESA welcomes the UC Davis Biomedical Engineering incoming class of 2022!

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Nataliya Bahatyrevich

Contact: nbahatyrevich@ucdavis.edu

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Heather Borgard

• Contact: hlborgard@ucdavis.edu
• Hometown: Kingman, AZ
• College: Arizona State University (BS) and University of British Columbia (MS)
• Hobbies: baking, hiking, painting, reading, video games
• Research Focus Area: Biomedical Imaging and Biophotonics 

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Rajul Bains

Contact: rbain@ucdavis.edu

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Lesly Carrasco

Contact: lescarrasco@ucdavis.edu

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Isabelle Crisostomo 

• Contact: iicriso@ucdavis.edu
• Hometown: Temecula, California
• College: UC Davis B.S. Biomedical Engineering
• Hobbies: sewing, cooking, watercolor, video games, cat lover
• Research Focus Area: Tissue Engineering, 3D Bioprinting

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Fernando Erismann

• Contact: ferismann@ucdavis.edu
• Hometown: Sacramento, CA. I was born in San Salvador, El Salvador.
• College: UC Davis BS Applied Physics 1991, Golden Gate University MBA 2001
• Hobbies: Mountaineering, Running, and Skiing. Always with my 8 and 12 year old daughters who are expert climbers and skiiers.
• Research Focus Area: I work for Stryker Surgical Technologies, where I am an optical engineer. I design surgical instruments that use light. These include illuminated instruments, devices for measuring blood loss in surgery, and IC green angiography. These days I am concentrating on implementing nano structured surfaces in my designs and I am hoping to start soon on a new project at the Advanced Science Research Center at City University New York.

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Niraj Gupta

 

Contact: nirgupta@ucdavis.edu

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Kuan-Wei Huang

• Contact: kwehuang@ucdavis.edu
• Hometown: Taiwan
• College: National Tsing Hua University
• Hobbies: Workout, badminton, surfing, cat lover
• Research Focus Area: nanocarrier for drug delivery, cancer therapy

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Dah Som Kim

Contact: dhskim@ucdavis.edu

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Jared Lee-Kin

• Contact: leekin@ucdavis.edu
• Hometown: Phoenix, AZ
• College: Arizona State University 
• Hobbies: Playing the saxophone, watching movies/shows, playing games
• Research Focus Area: Biotechnology, genetic modification, cell culturing

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Remy Leutenegger

Contact: rmleutenegger@ucdavis.edu

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Yucheng (Steven) Li

 

Contact: ycsli@ucdavis.edu

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Chieh-Te (Jack) Lin

• Contact: ctelin@ucdavis.edu
• Hometown: Taipei, Taiwan
• College: National Yang Ming University
• Hobbies: Swimming, sports, hiking and skiing
• Research Focus Area: Imaging processing and medical imaging in machine learning

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Sarah Lind

Contact: slind@ucdavis.edu

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Sakunrat Prompalit

Contact: sprompalit@ucdavis.edu

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Arundhuti Sanyal

• Contact: arusanyal@ucdavis.edu
• Hometown: Santa Clara, CA
• College: UC Davis College of Engineering
• Hobbies: Painting, travel, reading, writing
• Research Focus Area: Biomedical Imaging and Biophotonics

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Roshni Shetty

• Contact: rbrshetty@ucdavis.edu
• Preferred pronouns: [she, her, hers]
• Hometown: Mangalore, India
• College: Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
• Hobbies: Badminton, basketball, running, and reading novels
• Research Focus Area: TBD (Cardiac research broadly)

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Abhi Sidher

• Contact: asidher@ucdavis.edu
• Hometown: Sparks, NV
• College: BS and MS at the University of Nevada, Reno
• Hobbies: Reading, Audio Books, Exercise, Yuiogh TCG, and Movies
• Research Focus Area: TBD

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Tyler Singer-Clark

• Contact: tsingerclark@ucdavis.edu
• Hometown: Falmouth, MA
• College: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Hobbies: soccer, chess
• Research Focus Area: Brain-computer interfaces (BCI)

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Li-Hsin (Linda) Tai

 

• Contact: ltai@ucdavis.edu
• Hometown: Taiwan
• College: Kaohsiung Medical University 
• Hobbies: Traveling, drawing, watching movies 
• Research Focus Area: Neuroimaging 

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