Month: December 2025

QB3-UCSC Graduate Fellowship for Innovators I’m developing techniques to transform everyday Wi-Fi signals into clinical-grade health monitoring tools as part of the PulseFi project in the INRG lab. My research focuses on extracting physiological signals like heart rate and breathing rate from wireless Channel State Information (CSI), allowing non-contact vital sign monitoring with accuracy comparable…

QB3-UCSC Graduate Fellowship for Innovators My research takes a multimodal approach to improving the reproducibility, characterization, and functional relevance of cortical organoid models by leveraging deep learning for both molecular and electrophysiological analysis. Despite their promise for modeling human brain development and neurological disorders, organoids suffer from variability, immature physiology, and limited standardization. My work…

QB3-UCSC Graduate Fellowship for Innovators Plasmids are self-replicating pieces of DNA that play a key role in microbial ecology. Small, multicopy plasmids persist in bacterial populations despite being dispensable, imposing fitness costs on their hosts, and often lacking specialized mechanisms to ensure their stability. Our laboratory (and others) have recently established that these plasmids segregate…

QB3-UCSC Graduate Fellowship for Innovators My research focuses on engineering next-generation culture technologies to overcome fundamental limitations in how complex 3D tissues are grown and maintained in the lab. Conventional incubator-based systems often suffer from evaporation, unstable gas exchange, contamination, and poor nutrient and oxygen diffusion—all of which limit tissue viability, scalability, and reproducibility. Working…