Awarded in 2010
Home Department: Bioengineering
Faculty Advisor: Karl Deisseroth (Bioengineering, Psychiatry)
Home Department: Materials Science & Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Sarah Heilshorn
Talk Title: Design parameters for injectable biopolymeric hydrogels with dynamic covalent chemistry crosslinks
Event: 2023 Society for Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science
Dr. Ruike Renee Zhao is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University, where she directs the Soft Intelligent Materials Laboratory. Dr. Zhao received her BS degree from Xi'an Jiaotong University in 2012, and her MS and PhD degrees from Brown University in 2014 and 2016, respectively. She was a postdoc associate at MIT during 2016-2018 prior to her appointment as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at The Ohio State University from 2018 to 2021.
Awarded in 2023
Home Department: Neurosciences
Faculty Advisors: Scott Owen (Neurosurgery), Scott Linderman (Statistics), and Laura Prolo (Neurosurgery)
Dr. Renumathy Dhanasekaran is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at the School of Medicine, Stanford University. Her primary research goal is to explore the molecular biology of liver cancer in order to identify novel biomarkers and molecular-targeted therapies. She conducts basic and translational research to understand the molecular mechanisms of liver cancer metastasis and dormancy using mouse models of liver cancer.
Home Department: Mechanical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Kenneth Salisbury
Talk Title: Visual Vein-Finding for Robotic IV Insertion
Event: 2010 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation
