Austin Shoemaker
President - Undergraduate Research Ambassadors
Major: Chemistry
Research Area: Materials Science & Engineering
Research Mentor: Dr. Juan-Pablo Correa-Baena
Email: ashoemaker30@gatech.edu
Austin's Office Hours
Shirley Shabnam
Member at Large - Undergraduate Research Ambassadors
Major: Computer Science | Media & People Thread
Research Area: Human-Computer Interaction, Human-Centered Computing
Research Mentor: Dr. Andrea Parker, Dr. Sonia Chernova
Email: sshabnam3@gatech.edu
Shirley's Office Hours
Sasha Bronovitskiy
Ritvik Panuganti
Zoya Mir
Vice President of Events - Undergraduate Research Ambassadors
Major: Biology
Research Area: Sickle Cell Disease & STEM Education
Research Mentor: Dr. Edward Botchwey & Dr. Colin Harrison
Email: zmir6@gatech.edu
Zoya's Office Hours
Sanjay Rajeev
Alexandra Seesee
Vice President of Advertising - Undergraduate Research Ambassadors
Major: Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering | Biotechnology Option | Research Option | Minor in German
Research Area: Nanotechnology
Research Mentor: Dr. Ravi Kane
Email: alexandra.seesee@gatech.edu
Alexandra's Office Hours
Diya Godavarti
Akarshana Arunkumar
Undergraduate Research Ambassador
Major: Neuroscience | Pre-Health Concentration | Minor in Health and Medical Sciences
Research Area: Spatial Navigation, Human Aging, Neural Networks
Research Mentor: Dr. Michael Borich
Email: aarunkumar31@gatech.edu
Akarshana's Office Hours
Alayna Hashmi
Undergraduate Research Ambassador
Major: Biology | Pre-Health Concentration
Research Area: Studying the effects of a noninvasive treatment for Alzheimer’s disease called flicker on astrocyte morphology
Research Mentor: Dr. Aaron Young
Email: ahashmi30@gatech.edu
Alayna's Office Hours
Aleksandar (Alex) Boskovic
Undergraduate Research Ambassador
Major: Mechanical Engineering
Research Area: Wearable Robotics
Research Mentor: Dr. Aaron Young
Email: aboskovic3@gatech.edu
Alex's Office Hours
Allison Kurtz
Undergraduate Research Ambassador
Major: Biomedical Engineering | Research Option
Research Area: Metalloproteins
Research Mentor: Dr. Amit Reddi
Email: akurtz8@gatech.edu
Allison's Office Hours
Anirudh Sriram
Anjali Balaganesh
Undergraduate Research Ambassador
Major: Biomedical Engineering | Pre-Medicine | Minor in Physiology
Research Area: Clinical Applications of Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
Research Mentor: Dr. Candace Fleischer
Email: abalaganesh6@gatech.edu
Anjali's Office Hours
Anubha Mahajan
Arya Akbarshahi
Undergraduate Research Ambassador
Major: Biochemistry | Pre-Health Concentration
Research Area: Immunology
Research Mentor: Dr. Rafi Ahmed
Email: aakbarshahi3@gatech.edu
Arya's Office Hours
Atharva Lele
Undergraduate Research Ambassador
Major: Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
Research Area: Microneedle-Based Drug Delivery and Electroporation
Research Mentor: Dr. Saad Bhamla
Email: alele30@gatech.edu
Atharva's Office Hours
Caleb Turkson-Williams
Undergraduate Research Ambassador
Major: Biology | Pre-Medicine
Research Area: Exercise and Applied Physiology
Research Mentor: Dr. Melinda Millard-Stafford
Email: cturkson3@gatech.edu
Caleb's Office Hours
Dylan Winer
Undergraduate Research Ambassador
Major: Mechanical Engineering
Research Area: Materials Science & Machine Learning
Research Mentor: Surya Kalidindi
Email: dwiner3@gatech.edu
Dylan's Office Hours
Erin Leal
Undergraduate Research Ambassador
Major: Biochemistry
Research Area: Biomedical Engineering
Research Mentor: Dr. Edward Botchwey
Email: eleal31@gatech.edu
Erin's Office Hours
Esha Dhabuwala
Undergraduate Research Ambassador
Major: Biology
Research Area: Neuroimaging & Quantitative MRI Analysis
Research Mentor: Dr. Chuan Huang
Email: edhabuwala3@gatech.edu
Esha's Office Hours
Fiona Guo
Undergraduate Research Ambassador
Major: Neuroscience
Research Area: Developmental Biology
Research Mentor: Dr. Shuyi Nie
Email: fguo61@gatech.edu
Fiona's Office Hours
Hiteshri Chudasama
Undergraduate Research Ambassador
Major: Biology
Research Area: Biophysics
Research Mentor: Dr. Saad Bhamla
Email: hchudasama3@gatech.edu
Hiteshri's Office Hours
Hunter Bell
Undergraduate Research Ambassador
Major: Chemistry
Research Area: Water purification methods in electrolytic mediums
Research Mentor: Dr. Akanksha Menon
Email: hbell33@gatech.edu
Hunter's Office Hours
Hyorim (Lynn) Kim
Undergraduate Research Ambassador
Major: Neuroscience
Research Area: Human movement and neural adaptation
Research Mentor: Dr. Young-Hui Chang
Email: hkim3119@gatech.edu
Lynn's Office Hours
Jagruti (Jagu) Goli
Undergraduate Research Ambassador
Major: Chemistry | Minor in Korean
Research Area: Organic Synthesis Chemistry
Research Mentor: Dr. Jimin Hwang
Email: jgoli6@gatech.edu
Jagu's Office Hours
Jayden Thomas
Undergraduate Research Ambassador
Major: Chemistry
Research Area: Chemistry for renewable energy and the environment
Research Mentor: Dr. Ameet Pinto
Email: jthomas494@gatech.edu
Jayden's Office Hours
Joseph Wiltanger
Undergraduate Research Ambassador
Major: Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
Research Area: Complex Systems
Research Mentor: Dr. Ishant Tiwari
Email: jwiltanger3@gatech.edu
Joseph's Office Hours
Karthik Chilakapati
Undergraduate Research Ambassador
Major: Aerospace Engineering
Research Area: System Modeling of MBSE Projects with SysML
Research Mentor: Dr. Cimtalay Selcuk
Email: kchilakapati3@gatech.edu
Karthik's Office Hours
Khushal Benjaram
Undergraduate Research Ambassador
Major: Neuroscience | Minor in Health & Medical Sciences
Research Area: Epilepsy Neural Networks
Research Mentor: Dr. Chuan Huang
Email: kbenjaram3@gatech.edu
Khushal's Office Hours
Krishna Bajaj
Undergraduate Research Ambassador
Major: Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering | Minor in Computational Data Analysis
Research Area: Electrochemical Storage
Research Mentor: Dr. Gleb Yushin
Email: kbajaj9@gatech.edu
Krishna's Office Hours
Kunal Aneja
Undergraduate Research Ambassador
Major: Computer Science | Modeling-Simulation & Intelligence Thread
Research Area: Machine Learning
Research Mentor: Dr. Animesh Garg
Email: kaneja6@gatech.edu
Kunal's Office Hours
Maria Lindsey
Undergraduate Research Ambassador
Major: Biomedical Engineering | Pre-Health Concentration
Research Area: Neurophysiology of Upper Extremity Cognitive Motor Control
Research Mentor: Dr. Lewis Wheaton
Email: mlindsey35@gatech.edu
Maria's Office Hours
Mariah Castillo Puppo
Undergraduate Research Ambassador
Major: Chemistry | Research Option
Research Area: Inorganic Chemistry
Research Mentor: Dr. Jake Soper
Email: mcastillo38@gatech.edu
Mariah's Office Hours
Mia Bailey
Natasha Setiadi
Undergraduate Research Ambassador
Major: Computer Science | Intelligence and People Thread
Research Area: Artificial Intelligence to analyze prostate cancer
Research Mentor: Dr. Rakesh Shiradkar
Email: nsetiadi3@gatech.edu
Natasha's Office Hours
Nia Desai
Undergraduate Research Ambassador
Major: Biomedical Engineering
Research Area: Biosensors
Research Mentor: Dr. Farrokh Ayazi
Email: ndesai82@gatech.edu
Nia's Office Hours
Pranay Ramaswamy
Undergraduate Research Ambassador
Major: Biochemistry | Pre-Health Concentration | Minor in Health and Medical Sciences
Research Area: Aggregation pathway kinetics and molecular modelling of Alzheimer's causing peptides
Research Mentor: Dr. Anant Paravastu
Email: pramaswamy30@gatech.edu
Pranay's Office Hours
Sara Kapasi
Undergraduate Research Ambassador
Major: Biomedical Engineering | Pre-Health Concentration | Minor in Biochemistry
Research Area: Microbial sequencing for chronic disease treatment
Research Mentor: Dr. Kostas Konstantinidis
Email: skapasi3@gatech.edu
Sara's Office Hours
Samyukta Iyer
Undergraduate Research Ambassador
Major: Biomedical Engineering | Pre-Health Concentration
Research Area: Spatial omics and microfluidics
Research Mentor: Dr. Ahmet Coskun and Nicholas Zhang
Email: siyer300@gatech.edu
Samyukta's Office Hours
Seth Kinoshita
Undergraduate Research Ambassador
Major: Biochemistry | Pre-Health Concentration | Minors in Health and Medical Sciences, Spanish
Research Area: Nanoparticle Fabrication for Regenerative Medicine and Equity in Organic Chemistry Education
Research Mentor: Dr. Younan Xia and Dr. Pamela Pollet
Email: skinoshita3@gatech.edu
Seth's Office Hours
Shobana Santhanam
Undergraduate Research Ambassador
Major: Biomedical Engineering | Pre-Medicine | Minor in Health and Medical Sciences
Research Area: Cardiovascular Fluid Mechanics
Research Mentor: Dr. Lakshmi Prasad Dasi
Email: shobana@gatech.edu
Shobana's Office Hours
Soham Manoli
Undergraduate Research Ambassador
Major: Computer Science | Intelligence & Systems and Architecture Thread
Research Area: Optimizing Neural Networks on Analog Computing Architectures
Research Mentor: Dr. Hyesoon Kim
Email: smanoli3@gatech.edu
Soham's Office Hours
Sophia Schumaecker
Undergraduate Research Ambassador
Major: Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering | Biotechnology Option | Minor in Spanish
Research Area: Lymphatic Tissue Engineering and Drug Delivery
Research Mentor: Dr. Brandon Dixon
Email: sschumaecker3@gatech.edu
Sophia's Office Hours
William Yang
Undergraduate Research Ambassador
Major: Biology
Research Area: Bioengineering, Stem Cell Characterization, and Immunoengineering
Research Mentor: Dr. Edward Botchwey
Email: wyang356@gatech.edu