Team Members
Principal Investigator
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
Email: aw3571@columbia.edu
Research Scientists & Postdoctoral Fellows
Prithviraj Nandigrami
Associate Research Scientist
Research Fellow, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 2020 - 2026
Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Chicago, 2018 - 2020
Research Associate, University of Illinois, 2018
Ph.D. Kent State University, 2017
M.S. Brandeis University, 2011
Research interests: Computational biophysics; lectin-glycan interactions; machine learning; molecular dynamics simulations
Email: pn2478@columbia.edu
Mengwan Li
Postdoctoral Researcher
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
Jisoo Park
Postdoctoral Fellow
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Pennsylvania (2025–2026)
Postdoctoral Fellow, Ajou University (2022–2024)
Ph.D., Ajou University (2021)
B.S., Ajou University (2016)
Research interests: Programmable glycan-targeting proteins; Synthetic biology; Protein engineering; Protein conjugation
Email: jp4974@columbia.edu
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
Email: mwk2134@columbia.edu
Jaewon Lim
Chemical Engineering
M.S. Columbia University, 2025
B.S. New York University, 2024
Email: jl6668@columbia.edu
Zihan (Jessica) Wang
Chemical Engineering
M.S. Columbia University, 2024
B.S. Nankai University, 2022
Research interests: Synthetic biology and drug delivery
Email: zw2840@columbia.edu
Christian Pile
Biomedical Engineering
M.S. Columbia University, 2027
B.S.E. Duke University, 2025
Email: cvs2136@columbia.edu
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Jessica Lam
Chemical Engineering
B.S. University of Texas at Austin, 2025
Research interests: Lectin engineering; protein design; drug delivery
Email: jl7301@columbia.edu
Alex Yuen
Biomedical Engineering
M.S. Columbia University, 2026
B.A. Columbia College, 2025
Email: ary2115@columbia.edu
Undergraduate Research Assistants
Ana Anariba
Biomedical Engineering '27
Summer@SEAS Fellow
Research interests: Vaccine development for neglected tropical diseases
Email: asa2293@columbia.edu
Miranda Deeths
Nice Matrakul
Group photos
Lab Alumni
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Caleb Sanders - M.S. Chemical Engineering, 2026
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Merene Atterh - B.S. Chemical Engineering, 2026
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Helena Sanders - M.S. Chemical Engineering, 2026
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Yue Jiao - M.S. Chemical Engineering, 2024
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Runjia Yu - M.S. Chemical Engineering, 2024
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Kevin Lam - M.S. Chemical Engineering, 2024