Home Department: Chemical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Sarah Heilshorn
Talk Title: Viscoelastic N‑cadherin-like interactions maintain neural progenitor cell stemness within 3D matrices
Event: 2025 Biomedical Engineering Society Annual Meeting
Awarded in 2024
Talk Title: Spatially controlled fabrication of assembloids with 3D bioprinting
Event: American Institute of Chemical Engineers 2024 - Michelle received 1st place in the Biomaterials Graduate Student Award Session.
Awarded in 2023
Talk Title: Tuning hydrogel viscoelasticity and cell–cell signaling to direct neural maturation
Event: Society for Biomaterials 2023 Annual Meeting and Exposition - Michelle received the Student Travel Achievement Recognition (STAR) Honorable Mention.
Awarded in 2022
Talk Title: Matrix remodelability modulates human neural maturation
Event: American Institute of Chemical Engineers 2022 Annual Meeting
Awarded in 2021
Home Department: Neurosciences, Medicine
Faculty Advisors: Carla Shatz (Biology and Neurobiology), Anca Pasca (Pediatrics – Neonatal and Developmental Medicine), and Catherine Blish (Medicine – Infectious Diseases)
Dr. Michaëlle N. Mayalu is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering. She received her Ph.D., M.S., and B.S., degrees in Mechanical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She was a postdoctoral scholar at the California Institute of Technology in the Computing and Mathematical Sciences Department. She was a 2017 California Alliance Postdoctoral Fellowship Program recipient and a 2019 Burroughs Wellcome Fund Postdoctoral Enrichment Program award recipient. She is also a 2023 Hypothesis Fund Grantee.
Dr. Michael Zeineh received a B.S. in Biology at Caltech in 1995 and obtained his M.D.-Ph.D. from UCLA in 2003. After internship also at UCLA, he went on to radiology residency and neuroradiology fellowship both at Stanford. He has been faculty in Stanford Neuroradiology since 2010. He spearheads many initiatives in advanced clinical imaging at Stanford, including clinical fMRI and DTI.
Home Department: Mechanical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Thomas Andriacchi
Talk Title: Differences in external knee adduction moment between ACL reconstructed and contralateral knees
Event: 2011 American Society of Biomechanics Conference
Home Department: Bioengineering
Faculty Advisor: David Camarillo
Talk Title: Model-less control of a flexible robotic catheter
Event: 2014 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation - Michael's poster won the Best Paper award at this event.
