Mayayi Izzo
Mayayi Izzo is a Research Technician in the Biomedical Engineering Department. Previous REU/RET Projects Include: Targeted Therapeutic Delivery through Modified Nanocarriers (REU, 2025)
Mustafa Cagatay Karakan
Dr. Mustafa Cagatay Karakan is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Biological Design Center. Previous REU/RET Projects include: Developing Anchoring Methods to Generate and Mature 3D-Engineered Tissues (REU, 2025) Microfluidic Platform for Electrical Measurements on Biofilms (2022) Microhydraulic actuation of PDMS microchannels (2018) Scaffolds for Heart Tissue Engineering and their Mechanical Responses (2018)
Zeynep Ece Kizilates
Previous REU/RET Projects Include: Real-Time Integrated ORBGRAND-Based Transceiver (RIOT) (REU, 2025)
Daniel Lookadoo
2026 REU Project: Electrode Design for Integrated Flow Metering in Microfluidics StataDX aims to build the first point-of-care diagnostic platform for Neurology– a “liquid MRI for the brain.” The company’s technology supports multi-biomarker guided disease management strategies both in clinical settings and at home using a simple finger-prick blood sample. Previous REU/RET Projects Include: Advancing Early […]
Anna Maria Moran
Anna Maria Moran is a PhD Candidate and Research Fellow in the BU College of Engineering. Previous REU/RET Projects Include: Designing a Soft Bioinspired Grasper for Underwater Manipulation (REU, 2025)
Heather Murray
Heather Murray is a Biomedical Engineering PhD Candidate. Previous REU/RET Projects Include: Characterizing Relaxin-2 as a Therapeutic Candidate for Fibrosis (REU, 2025)
Juan Pacheco Garcia
Juan Pacheco Garcia is a GEM Fellow in the Lincoln Lab at MIT, as well as a PhD Candidate in Mechanical Engineering at BU. Previous REU/RET Projects include: Motion Tracking for Soft Robotic Arms (REU 2025)
Siddharth Ramachandran
Professor Ramachandran and team focus their research around nonlinear, ultrafast and quantum photonics,, fundamentals of light-matter interactions, fibers and guided-wave devices, super-resolution & brain imaging, classical & quantum networks. Previous REU/RET Projects: Generation, Transmission and Manipulation of Optical Skyrmions (2025, REU) Machine Learning Optimization of OAM-mediated Nonlinear Fiber Optics (2024, REU) Sculpting Light in Space […]
Tommaso Ranzani
2026 REU Project: Coming Soon Professor Tommaso Ranzani leads the Morphable Biorobotics Lab whose focus is robotic technologies for medicine, surgery, rehabilitation, and exploration. Dr. Ranzani has extensive experience in the development of medical robots for Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS). He explored different technologies and developed a number of manufacturing paradigms to design and manufacture […]
Arslan Riaz
Previous REU/RET Projects Include: Real-Time Integrated ORBGRAND-Based Transceiver (RIOT) (REU, 2025)