Team Members
Principal Investigator
Asher Williams
Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering
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Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow, Cornell University, 2020-2023
Ph.D. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2020
B.S. New York University, 2015
Email: aw3571@columbia.edu
Postdoctoral Research Associates
Mengwan Li
Chemical Engineering
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Ph.D. UC Riverside, 2022
B.S. Harbin Institute of Technology, 2017
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Research interests: Platform innovation; development of therapeutics and novel biomarkers
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Email: ml5229@columbia.edu
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Graduate Research Assistants
Max Kearns
Chemical Engineering
M.S. Columbia University, 2023
B.S. University of Rochester, 2020
Research interests: Engineering
immune responses via dendritic
cell targeting vaccine strategies
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Email: mwk2134@columbia.edu
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Caleb Sanders
Chemical Engineering​
M.S. Columbia University, 2026
B.A. University of Redlands, 2023
B.S. Columbia University, 2024
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Email: cvs2136@columbia.edu
Yue Jiao
Chemical Engineering
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M.S. Columbia University, 2023
B.S. UC Irvine, 2022
Research interests: Bio-machine learning, chemistry, and biology
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Email: yj2722@columbia.edu
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Kevin Lam
Chemical Engineering​
M.S. Columbia University, 2024
B.S. UC Berkeley, 2023
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Email: krl2135@columbia.edu
Runjia Yu
Chemical Engineering​
M.S. Columbia University, 2024
B.S. China University of Petroleum
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Email: ry2474@columbia.edu
Undergraduate Research Assistants
Ana Anariba
Biomedical Engineering '27
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Research interests:​ Vaccine development for neglected tropical diseases
Email: asa2293@columbia.edu
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Akshi Khowala
Merene Atterh
Chemical Engineering '26
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Research interests:​ Therapeutic applications of proteins and drug delivery
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Email: maa2363@columbia.edu
