Awarded in 2017
Home Department: Aeronautics & Astronautics
Faculty Advisors: Juan Santiago (Mechanical Engineering) and Sanjiva Lele (Aeronautics & Astronautics, Mechanical Engineering)
Dr. Ashwin Ramayya is an assistant professor in the Department of Neurosurgery. He specializes in the treatment of patients with chronic pain, movement disorders, epilepsy, and traumatic brain injury. His research program will focus on understanding brain mechanisms underlying pain experience and how to alleviate pain using brain stimulation.
Dr. Asiri Ediriwickrema, MD, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine (Hematology) at the Stanford University School of Medicine. His clinical focus is on the diagnosis, evaluation, and management of patients with myelodysplastic neoplasms and clonal hematopoiesis.
