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Joel Voldman, PH.D.
Clarence J. LeBel Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
voldman@mit.edu | RLE Biography | RLE Video

Joel Voldman, Ph. D., is the Clarence J. LeBel Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and the Faculty Head of Electrical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, MA. Prof. Voldman received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering summa cum laude from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, in 1995. He received the Masters degree in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, in 1997 and his Ph.D. from MIT in 2001. Following this, he performed postdoctoral training in George Church's lab at Harvard Medical School. He has been on the MIT faculty since July 2002.

 
 

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Chadwick Collins
Administrative Assistant
chadcoll@mit.edu

Mr. Collins joined RLE in the fall of 2001 as the administrative assistant for Prof. Jacob White and the Computational Prototyping Group. He began working for the Biological Microtechnology and BioMEMS Group in 2006. 

 
 

 

GRADUATE STUDENTS

 

 
   

Kruthika Kikkeri (EE)
kkikkeri@mit.edu

Kruthika Kikkeri (Kru) received her B.S. and M.S degrees in Electrical Engineering from Virginia Tech in 2016 and 2018 respectively. She joined the Biological Mircotechnology and BioMEMS group in 2018 to pursue her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering. Her research focuses on the development of integrated point-of-care diagnostic systems and closed-loop platforms. She also is an NSF Graduate Research Fellow.  Outside of the lab, Kru enjoys hiking, painting, baking and travel.

 

Wei Liao (EE)
weiliao@mit.edu

Wei Liao received her B.Eng. degree in Department of Precision Instrument, Tsinghua University, in 2018. She joined the Biological Mircotechnology and BioMEMS group in 2018 and received her SM degree in 2020. Her research focuses on robust multimodal learning of prognostic biomarkers in sepsis. She enjoys street photography and movies in her free time.  

 

Dousabel May Yi Tay (ChemE)
dousabel@mit.edu

Dousabel received her B.Eng in Chemical Engineering from National University of Singapore in 2019. She joined the Biological Mircotechnology and BioMEMS group in 2020 to pursue her Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering. Her research focuses on the development of models to understand and optimize integrated point-of-care (PoC) diagnostic systems and the speeding gup translation of PoC devices. Outside of the lab, Dousabel is an avid baker and exercise enthusiast.

 
 
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M.Mahdi Aeinehvand

maein@mit.edu

M.Mahdi Aeinehvand received his B.S. degree in Biomedical Engineering from the State Engineering University of Armenia in 2009. In 2012 and 2016, Mahdi received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Biomedical Engineering from University of Malaya. Since October 2016, he is a postdoctoral researcher at Nano-sensors and Devices research group at Tec de Monterrey, and since July 2019 a postdoctoral fellow at The RLE Biological Microtechnology and BioMEMS Group at MIT. Centrifugal microfluidics is his main area of expertise, and his current research focuses on the developed on a lab-on-a-disc for scaled-up cell pairing and fusion.

 

 
 
 
 

 

 

 

 

 

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