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Team Members

Principal Investigator
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Asher Williams

Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering

Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow, Cornell University, 2020-2023

Ph.D. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2020

B.S. New York University, 2015

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Postdoctoral Research Associates

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Mengwan Li

Chemical Engineering

Ph.D. UC Riverside, 2022

B.S. Harbin Institute of Technology, 2017

Research interests: Platform innovation; development of therapeutics and novel biomarkers

Email: ml5229@columbia.edu

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Graduate Research Assistants

Max Kearns

Max Kearns

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Chemical Engineering

 

M.S. Columbia University, 2023

B.S. University of Rochester, 2020

 

Research interests: Engineering

immune responses via dendritic

cell targeting vaccine strategies

Email: mwk2134@columbia.edu

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Caleb Sanders

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Chemical Engineering

 

M.S. Columbia University, 2026

B.A. University of Redlands, 2023

B.S. Columbia University, 2024

Email: cvs2136@columbia.edu

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Yue Jiao

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Chemical Engineering

M.S. Columbia University, 2023

B.S. UC Irvine, 2022

 

Research interests: Bio-machine learning, chemistry, and biology

Email: yj2722@columbia.edu

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Kevin Lam

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Chemical Engineering

 

M.S. Columbia University, 2024

B.S. UC Berkeley, 2023

Email: krl2135@columbia.edu

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Runjia Yu

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Chemical Engineering

 

M.S. Columbia University, 2024

B.S. China University of Petroleum

Email: ry2474@columbia.edu

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Helena Sanders

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Chemical Engineering

 

M.S. Columbia University, 2025

B.S. University of Tennessee

Knoxville, 2023

Email: hs3572@columbia.edu

Undergraduate Research Assistants

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