BESA welcomes the UC Davis Biomedical Engineering incoming class of 2022!
Nataliya Bahatyrevich
Contact: nbahatyrevich@ucdavis.edu
Heather Borgard
![Heather Borgard](/sites/g/files/dgvnsk8506/files/styles/sf_small_width/public/media/images/HB_photo.jpg?itok=Xodu3SkZ)
- 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
Rajul Bains
Contact: rbain@ucdavis.edu
Lesly Carrasco
Contact: lescarrasco@ucdavis.edu
Isabelle Crisostomo
![Isabelle Crisostomo](/sites/g/files/dgvnsk8506/files/styles/sf_small_width/public/media/images/i_crisostomo.jpg?itok=sOVOW-Ts)
- 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
Xiaoyu Duan
![Xiaoyu Duan](/sites/g/files/dgvnsk8506/files/styles/sf_small_width/public/media/images/Screenshot%202022-08-07%20213649.png?itok=LhJS1Vs9)
- Contact: xyduan@ucdavis.edu
- Hometown: China, Shanghai
- College: Northeastern University
- Hobbies: swimming, singing, playing skateboard
- Research Focus Area: Medical Imaging based on deep learning
Fernando Erismann
![Fernando Erismann](/sites/g/files/dgvnsk8506/files/styles/sf_small_width/public/media/images/FE%20Picture.jpg?itok=KIR0U8MD)
- 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.
Niraj Gupta
![Niraj Gupta](/sites/g/files/dgvnsk8506/files/styles/sf_small_width/public/media/images/aggie%20card%20profile%20picture.jpg?itok=OQ6SeONH)
Contact: nirgupta@ucdavis.edu
Kuan-Wei Huang
![Kwan Huang](/sites/g/files/dgvnsk8506/files/styles/sf_small_width/public/media/images/IMG_1334_1.jpg?itok=b5DbIwJP)
- 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
Dah Som Kim
Contact: dhskim@ucdavis.edu
Jared Lee-Kin
![Jared Lee-Kin](/sites/g/files/dgvnsk8506/files/styles/sf_small_width/public/media/images/IMG_6084.jpg?itok=25z80n4j)
- 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
Remy Leutenegger
Contact: rmleutenegger@ucdavis.edu
Yucheng (Steven) Li
![Steven Li](/sites/g/files/dgvnsk8506/files/styles/sf_small_width/public/media/images/IMG_20190703_202618_2.jpg?itok=-QSoerOd)
Contact: ycsli@ucdavis.edu
Chieh-Te (Jack) Lin
![Jack Lin](/sites/g/files/dgvnsk8506/files/styles/sf_small_width/public/media/images/Screenshot%202022-08-12%20114206.png?itok=lCpEWQ0J)
- 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
Sarah Lind
Contact: slind@ucdavis.edu
Sakunrat Prompalit
Contact: sprompalit@ucdavis.edu
Arundhuti Sanyal
![Arundhuti Sanyal](/sites/g/files/dgvnsk8506/files/styles/sf_small_width/public/media/images/UC%20Davis%20photo.jpg?itok=ntZgXs08)
- 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
Roshni Shetty
![Roshni Shetty](/sites/g/files/dgvnsk8506/files/styles/sf_small_width/public/media/images/Roshni_2.jpg?itok=hVsh7DUJ)
- 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)
Abhi Sidher
![Abhijaat Sidher](/sites/g/files/dgvnsk8506/files/styles/sf_small_width/public/media/images/5DCC02D4-40DC-4184-9B71-121C5FD75D30.jpeg?itok=jtMhc0CW)
- 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
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)
Li-Hsin (Linda) Tai
![Li-Hsin Tai](/sites/g/files/dgvnsk8506/files/styles/sf_small_width/public/media/images/image0.jpeg?itok=yhsqizpw)
- Contact: ltai@ucdavis.edu
- Hometown: Taiwan
- College: Kaohsiung Medical University
- Hobbies: Traveling, drawing, watching movies
- Research Focus Area: Neuroimaging
Mu-Cyun Tseng
![Mu-Cyun T](/sites/g/files/dgvnsk8506/files/styles/sf_small_width/public/media/images/%E6%9B%BE%E7%89%A7%E7%BE%A4_U121885583.jpg?itok=kgk0RO3X)
- Contact: mctseng@ucdavis.edu
- Hometown: Taiwan(Taipei)
- College:National Cheng-Kung University/ National Taiwan University
- Hobbies:Dancing
- Research Focus Area: Orthopaedic, mechanobiology
Erika Wheeler
![Erika Wheeler](/sites/g/files/dgvnsk8506/files/styles/sf_small_width/public/media/images/image0%20%281%29.jpeg?itok=p4S3oyxY)
- Contact: eewheeler@ucdavis.edu
- Preferred pronouns: [she, her, hers]
- Hometown: Alamo, California
- College: Northeastern University
- Hobbies: hiking, skiing, surfing, traveling, and reading
- Research Focus Area: Cell and Tissue engineering
Eden Winslow
![Eden Winslow](/sites/g/files/dgvnsk8506/files/styles/sf_small_width/public/media/images/Image.jpeg?itok=fDJ15RlZ)
- Contact: ewinslow@ucdavis.edu
- Hometown: Culver City, CA
- College: Dordt University
- Hobbies: Reading, running, and playing games/watching movies with friends!
- Research Focus Area: TBD
Kajetan Wysoczynski
![Kajetan W](/sites/g/files/dgvnsk8506/files/styles/sf_small_width/public/media/images/portrait.jpeg?itok=abE9wrWp)
- Contact: wysoczynski@ucdavis.edu
- Preferred pronouns: [He,Him,His]
- Hometown: Gdańsk, Poland
- College: UC Davis, CA
- Hobbies: Guitar, music composition, and triathlon
- Research Focus Area: Artificial intelligence in medical imaging
Jiahao (Jackie) Xie
- Contact: jhjxie@ucdavis.edu
- Hometown: China
- College: University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
- Hobbies: Workout, Cooking
- Research Focus Area: PET Imaging
Anqi Zhang
![Anqi Zhang](/sites/g/files/dgvnsk8506/files/styles/sf_small_width/public/media/images/WeChat%20Image_20220721140942.jpg?itok=WEQw4Jn6)
- Contact: aqzhang@ucdavis.edu
- Hometown: China
- College: College of Engineering; Graduating from UC Davis BME department
- Hobbies: Golf, dance
- Research Focus Area: MRI, imaging