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Principal Investigator

Scott Banta Curriculum vitae

sbanta@columbia.edu

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Postdoctoral Fellows

Indrani Banerjee ib2370@columbia.edu

Kusum Solanki ks3274@columbia.edu

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PhD Students

Walaa Abdallah wka2104@columbia.edu

Beyza Bulutoglu bb2610@columbia.edu

Kristen Garcia keg2135@columbia.edu

Yuta Inaba yi2192@columbia.edu

Tim Kernan tk2354@columbia.edu

Harun Ozbakir hfo2103@columbia.edu

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Masters Students

Justin Delafontaine jd3236@columbia.edu

Neha Desireddy nd2520@columbia.edu

Irina Khenkin ik2380@columbia.edu

Helen Lin cl3386@columbia.edu

John Reeves jsr2182@columbia.edu

Sergio Sanchez sgs2160@columbia.edu

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Undergraduate Students

Dexter Antonio dda2120@columbia.edu

Hayley Caddes hkc2122@columbia.edu

Kirsten Jung jj2681@columbia.edu

Zachary Shaw zbs5@columbia.edu

Sarah Yang sjy2118@columbia.edu

Zoe Zegers zjz2102@columbia.edu

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Lab Alumni

Postdoctoral Fellows

Jennifer Haghpanah - Engineer at L'Oreal

Sudipta Majumdar - Assistant Professor, Indiana University of Pennsylvania

Wendell Khunjar - Engineer, Hazen and Sawyer

Yang Hee Kim - Research Engineer, C.J. Corporation, Korea

Matthew Lluis - Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Colorado

Jun Wu - Scientist, Atotech Inc.

Geza Szilvay - Research Scientist, VTT Technical Research Centre, Finland

Jong Pil Park - Assistant Professor, Department of Herbal pharmaceutical Engineering, Daegu Haany University, Korea

J. Todd Holland - Postdoctoral Fellow, Virginia Tech

Xiaojun Chen - Research Scientist, Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, Singapore

Karuppiah (Karu) Chockalingam - Senior Process Development Engineer, Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies

PhD Students

Xiaozheng Li (PhD 2015)

Kevin Dooley (PhD 2014) - Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Engineering in Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Tushar Patel (PhD 2013) - Chemical Engineer, Bristol-Myers Squibb

Oren Shur (PhD 2012) - Management Consultant, Boston Consulting Group

Flora Felsovalyi (PhD 2012) - Chemical Engineer, Hoffman la Roche

Asli Sahin (PhD 2012) - Postdoctoral Fellow, IBM

Elliot Campbell (PhD 2011) - Research Scientist, Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine, Rutgers University

Doris Glykys (PhD 2010) - Senior Chemical Engineer, Merck & Co.

Shan Gao (PhD 2009) - Senior Chemical Engineer - Wave 80 Biosciences

Mark Blenner (PhD 2009) - Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Clemson University

Ian Wheeldon (PhD 2009) - Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, University of California Riverside

Masters Students

Jingyang (Billy) Guan

Mansij Hans - LifeCell

Joe Imperato - Pfizer

Matthew Lebovich

Ruel McKenzie - Doctoral Student, NYU-Poly

Dima Najjar - Dow Chemical

Sameera Namazi - Regeneron Pharmaceuticals

Ikechukwu Okorafor

Yola Salome Serpa de Miranda

Undergraduate Students

Matthew Baltimore

Daniel Baran

Raymond Bellon

Devante Bledsoe

Andrea Chan

Christine Chang

Navid Choudhury

Sara Chuang

Brett Chung

Srikanth Damera

Josephine Davis

Christopher Farley

Meshach Heenatigala

Zoe Hilbert

AnhDao Ho

Sarah Hunt

Joohee Jung

Asher Krell

Daniel Lewis

Amanda Li

Carol Li

Christine Liu

Jack Lu

Alexis Matrka

Christina Michaels

Karina Montenegro

Olamide Omidele

David Sambade

Christine Shim

Mita Singh

Fehlin Stone

Victoria Sun

Morgan Urello

Xuanqing Wan

Vinson Wang

Xiaobei Wang

Jennifer Xiong

Nina Xu

Sophronia Yu

High School Science Teachers

Akiva Friedman

Dawn Kennedy

Qianhui (Valerie) Yeo

High School Volunteers

Diana Fernandes

Yasmeen Omer