2023 Cohort

BESA welcomes the UC Davis Biomedical Engineering incoming class of 2023!

Anis Askari

Raul Castillo Astorga

Matthew Chan

Junjie Chen

Junjie Chen
  • Contact: [email protected]
  • Hometown: Jiangxi Province, China
  • College: Beijing University of Chemical technology(BS), University of Southern California(MS)
  • Hobbies: baking, hiking, Chinese traditional painting, workout, video games
  • Research Focus Area: Tissue Engineering and organ-on-a-chip, biomaterial

Truc Dinh

Momchil (Chilly) Gavrilov

Chilly Gavrilov
  • Contact: [email protected]
  • Hometown: Barrie, Ontario, Canada
  • College: McMaster University
  • Hobbies: Hitting the gym, reading, music, movies, and exploring
  • Research Focus Area: Neuroengineering

Yifei Gu

Elizabeth Hale

Elizabeth Hale
  • Contact: [email protected]
  • Hometown: Meridian, MS
  • College: University of Mississippi (Ole Miss)
  • Hobbies: Painting, cooking
  • Research Focus Area: Biomaterials, drug/gene delivery

Renzhi He

Emily Holy

EmilyHoly
  • Contact: [email protected]
  • Hometown: San Marcos, CA
  • College: UC Davis
  • Hobbies: hiking, running, gym, painting, reading
  • Research Focus Area: neuroimaging

Dallin Jacobs

Han Jing

Parneet Kaur

Testaverde Sangwoo Kim

Testaverde Sangwoo Kim
  • Contact: [email protected]
  • Hometown: Akron, Ohio in US/Daejeon, South Korea (I was born Akron, and Daejeon is my first city where I started to live in South Korea)
  • College: B.S. in Molecular Biology at Jeonbuk National University and M.S. in Chemical & Biological Engineering at Korea University
  • Hobbies: Cooking, running, and studying foreign languages
  • Research Focus Area: Biomaterials

Anika Kulkarni

Hayley Kumagai

Hayley Kumagai
  • Contact: [email protected]
  • Hometown: Fresno, CA
  • College: California State University, Fresno (BS)
  • Hobbies: Crochet, reading, video games
  • Research Focus Area: TBD

Winnie Lau

Siyu Lin

Erin Loader

Isha Maisuriya

Isha Maisuriya
  • Contact: [email protected]
  • Hometown: Surat, India
  • College: SRM University, Chennai 
  • Hobbies: Painting, playing Table tennis 
  • Research Focus Area: Molecular medicines and Genetics

Samveda Pagay

Samveda Pagay
  • Contact: [email protected]
  • Hometown: San Jose, CA
  • College: UC Davis
  • Hobbies: I love hiking, going on walks, and spending time with friends while watching movies or TV shows
  • Research Focus Area: Biomechanics and Mechanobiology

Brinda Sevak

Aparna Srinivasan

Prem Santhosh Subramanian

Anahita Tavakoli

Samhitha Tumkur

Gong Wang

Giselle (Ghazaleh) Yazdani

Giselle (Ghazaleh) Yazdani

Lei Zhou