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CATE Team Members

 

Faculty Advisor
     
 

Wei Sun, Ph.D

Wei Sun is currently appointed as Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics, with an affiliate appointment in the School of Biomedical Engineering, Science, and Health Systems at Drexel University. Sun’s research and education interests include Computer-Aided Tissue Engineering, Biomechanical Engineering, Design and Manufacturing, CAD/CAM and Solid Freeform Fabrication. Sun is currently elected as the Section Editor for Tissue Engineering for the Journal of American Society for Artificial Internal Organs

Tel: 215-895-5810; Fax: 215-895-2094; E-mail: sunwei@drexel.edu;

Homepage: http://www.pages.drexel.edu/~sunwei

     
     
     

Research Assistants

     
     
 

Kalyani Nair (Ph.D.)

Kalyani Nair is pursuing her Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering. Her expertise includes biosciences, FEA analysis, rapid prototyping and biopolymers. Her interests include the analytical and numerical modeling of cell-substrate interactions; design and fabrication of mechnosensation environment for hydrogel-based tissue scaffolds.

E-mail: kalyani.nair@drexel.edu

     
     
 

Lauren Shor (Ph.D.)

Lauren Shor is pursuing her Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering. Her research interests include Rapid Prototyping, CAD/CAM, Freeform Deposition of Polymers and Ceramics. She is currently working on bio-polymer deposition for manufacturing of micro and nano-structures with applications in tissue engineering and nanotechnology.

E-mail: lauren@drexel.edu (Co-Advisor, with Dr. Selcuk Guceri)

     
     
  Eda Yildirim (Ph.D Candidate)

Eda Yildirim is pursuing her Ph.D Degree in mechanical engineering. Her research interests include Biological analysis of Carbon Nanofibers and nanotubes in soft hydrogels and surface treatment using plasma.

Email: edy22@drexel.edu

     
     

  Robert Chang (Ph. D Candidate)

Robert completed his B.S. in Chemical Engineering and is currently working towards his PhD degree in Mechanical Engineering. His primary research interests include cell printing and direct cell writing of liver micro-organs for pharmacokinetic study.

Email: rcc34@drexel.edu

     
     
 

Jie Lie (Ph.D Candidate)

 Jie Li is a PhD student of Computer Science Department.Her current research interest is to design and fabricate tissu engineering models, especially using swept volumes. Her previous experiences include Computer Aided Collaborative Design.
Email: jie.li@drexel.edu; Homepage: http://www.cs.drexel.edu/~jl3992 (Co-advisor, with Dr. William Regli) 

     
     
     
CATE ALUMNI    
     
 

Dr. Zhibin Fang

Senior Mechanical Engineer

Zimmer Inc, Indiana

     
     
 

Dr. Saif Khalil

Consulting Engineer

PA Consulting Corp, NJ

     
 

Dr. Andrew Darling

CEO, BioStrut Inc.

     
 
 

Dr. Binil Starly

Assistant Professor

University of Oklahoma

E-mail: bs49@drexel.edu; Resume: PDF - MS WORD ; Homepage: http://www.pages.drexel.edu/~bs49

     
     
     
 

Connie Gomez

Assistant Professor

University of Texas El Paso

E-mail: cg24@drexel.edu

     
     
 

Xi Yin

 

Pursuing PhD degree at The University of California Berkeley.

 

     
     
 

Peter Evans

Design Engineer

Dept of Biomechanics

NYU Hospital for Special Surgery

     
     
 

Xun Zhou

Software Engineer

Working in Exton, PA.

     
     
 

Jennifer Vondran

Consulting Engineer

PA Consulting Corp, NJ

     
     

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Last updated: 07/03/08.