Director

Domitilla Del Vecchio

Grover M. Hermann Professor in Health Sciences and Technology

MIT Mechanical Engineering and Biological Engineering

Biography Contact

Current Members

Dhruv Jatkar

Undergraduate

Northeastern University

djatkar@mit.edu

Elia Salibi

Post-Doc

MIT, Mechanical Engineering

esalibi@mit.edu

Eric Lu

Graduate Student

MIT, Biological Engineering

ericjlu@mit.edu

Giulio Alighieri

Post-doc

MechE, MIT

Hengyu Wang

Graduate Student

MechE, MIT

Iacopo Ruolo

Post-Doc

MIT, Mechanical Engineering

iruolo94@mit.edu

Jichi Wang

Graduate Student

MIT, Mechanical Engineering

jichi@mit.edu

Joseph Gaken

Administrative Assistant

MIT, Mechanical Engineering

jgaken@mit.edu

Kalon Overholt

Graduate Student

MIT, Biological Engineering

overholt@mit.edu

Krishna Manoj

Graduate Student

MIT, Mechanical Engineering

kmanoj@mit.edu

Nicholas Nolan

Graduate Student

MIT, Biological Engineering

ncn@mit.edu

Sebastian Palacios

Post-Doc

MIT, Mechanical Engineering

spalacio@mit.edu

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Lab Alumni

Former PhD Students

Shridhar Jayanthi

Ph.D. 2012 (EECS, University of Michigan).

Mike Hafner

Ph. D. 2012 (EECS, University of Michigan). Now Engineer at Ford Motor Company.

Rajeev Verma

Ph.D. 2011 (EECS, University of Michigan) Now Lead Engineer at Eaton Corp.

Narmada Herath

Ph.D. EECS 2018 The Mathworks

Ross Jones

Ph.D., BE 2020 Now Post-doctoral Researcher, Zandstra Lab

Rushina Shah

Ph.D., MechE 2020 Now Robotics engineer with the behavior team at Nuro

Francesca Ratti

2021 PhD Politecnico di MIlano

Ukjin Kwon

PhD, EECS 2023

Yili Qian

PhD, MechE MIT 2020. Senior Research Investigator at Bristol Myers Squibb

Katherine Ilia

PhD, BE 2023. Senior Scientist at Vertex Pharmaceuticals

Simone Bruno

PhD, MechE 2024. Postdoctoral Fellow at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (Harvard)

Heejin Ahn

PhD, MechE 2018. Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at KAIST

Carlos Barajas

PhD, MechE 2022. Senior Scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

Andras Gyorgy

PhD, EECS 2016. Associate Professor of Bioengineering and Electrical Engineering, NYU Abu Dhabi

Ted Grunberg

PhD, EECS 2024. Research Investigator in Quantitative Systems Pharmacology at Bristol Myers Squibb

Cameron McBride

PhD, MechE 2021. Quantitative Systems Pharmacology Modeler at Takeda

Aaron Dy

PhD, BE 2019. Business Development at Relay Therapeutics

Former Post-Docs

Abdullah Hamadeh

(2013-2015)

Kayzad Nilgiriwala

(2010-2013) Now Research Scientist at The Foundation of Medical Research (India)

Reza Ghaemi

(2010-2012) Now Lead Engineer at General Electrics

Daniel Hoehener

(2013-2016) Now Research Associate at Capital Fund Managemen

Fiona Chandra

(2014-2016) Research Associate at Takeda Pharmaceuticals

Mohammad Naghnaeian

(2016-2018) Now Assistant Professor, MechE Clemson U

Mohammad Ali

Post-doctoral Researcher 2016-2018 Post-doc, NE University

Nika Shakiba

(2018-2020) Now Assistant Professor, School of Biomedical Engineering, UBC

Michael Kaminski

(2018-2019) Now at MDC-Berlin, Kaminski Lab

Hsin-Ho Huang

Research Scientist (2015-2022)

Huifeng Du

Post-doc 2022-2024. Assistant Professor at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Jose Zarco Jimenez

Post-doc 2011-2013. Associate Professor in Synthetic Biology at Imperial College, London

Shaoshuai Mou

Post-doc 2014-2015. Associate Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Purdue University

Alessandro Colombo

Post-doc 2010-2012. Associate Professor, Politecnico di Milano (Italy)

Delphine Bresch-Pietri

Post-doc 2012-2013. Associate Professor at MINES ParisTech

Former Master Students

John Yazbek

2015 (MIT,BE)

Gang Huang

Master 2015 (MIT, MechE)

Sid Palas

Master 2012 (MIT, MechE) Now at Lockheed Martin Corporation

Mojtaba Forghani

Master 2014 (MIT MechE) Now PhD student in MechE

Phillip Rivera-Ortiz

Master 2013 (MIT MechE) Now at APL

Hussein Abdallah

M.Eng 2018 Medical School

Penny Chen

MS (2016-2018)

Nithin Kumar

MS 2015 Mechanical Engineering (MIT)

Dylan Hirsch

MS, BE 2023 PhD Student at UCSD

Carlos Celeste Jr

Master Student 2024

Former Undergraduate Students

Hussein Abdallah

2015/2016 UROP

Elaine Kwan

2015/2016 UROP

Jasmine Chen

2015 UROP

Andrea Rizzi

2013 CSE (MISTI/UROP)

Kevin Chen

2012 EECS (UROP)

Leonardo Bruni

2012 MechE (MISTI)

Brianna Woeckener

2011-2012 MechE (UROP)

John McGonagle

2012 EECS (UROP)

Stephanie Fung

Biological Engineering 2011-2012 (UROP)

Jesse Gibson

EECS UG Student 2017