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
Postdoctoral Research Associates
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
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
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Caleb Sanders
Chemical Engineering
M.S. Columbia University, 2026
B.A. University of Redlands, 2023
B.S. Columbia University, 2024
Email: cvs2136@columbia.edu
Yue Jiao
Chemical Engineering
M.S. Columbia University, 2023
B.S. UC Irvine, 2022
Research interests: Bio-machine learning, chemistry, and biology
Email: yj2722@columbia.edu
Kevin Lam
Chemical Engineering
M.S. Columbia University, 2024
B.S. UC Berkeley, 2023
Email: krl2135@columbia.edu
Runjia Yu
Chemical Engineering
M.S. Columbia University, 2024
B.S. China University of Petroleum
Email: ry2474@columbia.edu
Helena Sanders
Chemical Engineering
M.S. Columbia University, 2025
B.S. University of Tennessee
Knoxville, 2023
Email: hs3572@columbia.edu
