People
Faculty
Roy Dar
Assistant Professor, Department of Bioengineering
Affiliate of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Center for Biophysics and Quantitative Biology,
Cancer Center at Illinois, and the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
roydar at illinois dot edu
"You ask me if an ordinary person could ever get to be able to imagine these things like I imagine them. Of course! I was an ordinary person who studied hard. There are no miracle people. It happens they get interested in this thing and they learn all this stuff, but they're just people. There's no talent, no special ability to understand quantum mechanics, or to imagine electromagnetic fields, that comes without practice and reading and learning and study. I was not born understanding quantum mechanics -- I still don't understand quantum mechanics! I was born not knowing things were made out of atoms, and not being able to visualize, therefore -- when I saw the bottle of milk that I was sucking -- that it was a dynamic bunch of balls bouncing around. I had to learn that just like anybody else. So if you take an ordinary person who is willing to devote a great deal of time and work and thinking and mathematics, then he's become a scientist!"
-- Richard Feynman
Graduate Students
Alex Blanco
B.S. Biomedical Engineering, SLU
ablanco3 at illinois dot edu
"The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them." -- Sir William Lawrence Bragg
Yiyang Lu
B.S. Biomedical Engineering (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
B.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
lu74 at illinois dot edu
"By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail." -- Benjamin Franklin
Tarun Mahajan
M.S. Electrical Engineering (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi)
tarunm3 at illinois dot edu
"The inextricable joys of philosophy sometimes, mysteriously, disentangle for the uninitiated. Philosophy of biology is one such unique and magical realm. Epistemology of biology, especially mechanistic theories, has a mind-boggling implication: under its ambit, the collective human venture represents life’s unrelenting efforts to look upon itself with a microscope."
Jason Wang
B.S. Biomedical Engineering (Vanderbilt University)
jasonxw2 at illinois dot edu
“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.” -- Paulo Coelho
Post-Bac and Masters
Blashko Milenkovski
Molecular and Cellular Biology Class of 2021
bmilen2 at illinois dot edu
"You look at science (or at least talk of it) as some sort of demoralising invention of man, something apart from real life, and which must be cautiously guarded and kept separate from everyday existence. But science and everyday life cannot and should not be separated." -- Rosalind Franklin
Al-Sadiq Rahemtulla
Engineering Physics Class of 2021
alsadiq3 at illinois dot edu
"Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life." -- Marcus Aurelius
Undergraduates
Robert Coronado
Bioengineering Class of 2022
rac5 at illinois dot edu
"Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world." -- Louis Pasteur
Sohom Dash
Bioengineering Class of 2024
sdash5 at illinois dot edu
“Research is to see what everyone else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.” – Albert Szent-Györgyi
Luka Karginov
Bioengineering Class of 2022
lukaak2 at illinois dot edu
"Truth emerges more readily from error than confusion." -- Francis Bacon (Novum Organum)
Shreyaa Khanna
Molecular and Cellular Biology Class of 2022
skhann7 at illinois dot edu
"In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life, to doubt, as far as possible, of all things." -- René Descartes
Andrew Li
Electrical Engineering Class of 2024
atli3 at illinois dot edu
"Everybody, try laughing. Then whatever scares you will go away!" -- My Neighbor Totoro (1988)
Tyler Schwarz
Biochemistry Class of 2023
tylers4 at illinois dot edu
“A science is any discipline in which the fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the genius of the last generation.” -Max Gluckman
Shayna Talpallikar
Bioengineering Class of 2024
shaynat2 at illinois dot edu
“If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.” – Isaac Newton
Alumni
Postdocs
Kathrin Bohn-Wippert (Diagnosticum, Germany, 2019)
Undergraduates
Domminic Demma (Explico Engineering Co. and Wayne State University, Bioengineering Class of 2019)
Kendall Junger (AbbVie Pharmaceuticals, 2021)
Kelly Ma (Bioengineering Class of 2023)
Melina Megaridis (Abbott Laboratories, 2019)
Melissa Manetsch (Chemical Engineering Class of 2022)
Jennifer Moy (Stanford University, 2018)
Patrick Pazerunas (AbbVie Pharmaceuticals, 2018)
Maria Sajan (Bioengineering Class of 2022)
Harpal Singh (Catalent Inc., 2021)
Elizabeth Troy (UIC College of Medicine, 2021)
Erin Tevonian (MIT, 2019)
