Socially-driven researchers with passion for signal processing
Gyana Sahoo
Postdoctoral Associate
Gyana completed his PhD from Department of Physics, IIT Kanpur, India. His expertise lies in the field of spectroscopy, biomedical imaging and machine learning. In Signal Science Lab, he is working on developing wavelet analysis and image processing methods for improving sensitivity of biophysical methods. He is an active member of PhtoSpIMeDx healthcare start up group. Outside research, he is passionate about cricket and enjoys playing both cricket and badminton.
Aritro Sinharoy
Postdoctoral Associate
Aritro got his Masters degree in Chemistry from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India and successfully defended his doctoral research working at the National Biomedical Center for Advanced ESR Technology (ACERT) at Cornell University in 2015. He has developed an analytic platform using Python for ESR pulsed dipolar signal (PDS) analysis and derived the functional forms of various PDS signals for fast simulations of 1D and 2D spectra. After graduating from Cornell, he has served as an Associate Consultant at IQVIA in NYC, followed by the CEO of TheTimesBlog.com in Bangalore, India. His passion is learning new programming languages, creating music, and riding motorcycles.
Leah Woldemariam
Graduate Student
Leah is a incoming PhD student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell University. She completed her undergraduate degree in Applied Mathematics at Cornell in 2022. She joined the lab in 2018 and is currently investigating the properties of Haar transforms for decoupling information from large data sets. She is currently selected for the Avangrid Innovation Challenge to work on electricity grid resilience. Outside of research, she is also a member of the Milstein Program.
Shikhar Prakash
Graduate Student
Shikhar joined Ph.D. in Systems Engineering at Cornell University after 2.5 years of work experience in the energy industry. Before this, he completed his master’s degree in Biological and Environmental Engineering from Cornell University, and bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from Jaypee University, India. He has multidisciplinary interest. In Signal Science Lab, Shikhar will be working in the field of System Optimization and Artificial Intelligence in the Energy Transmission and Distribution Sector. Apart from his academic life, on weekends he enjoys hiking and exploring nature, and in the evening, he finds joy in swimming and badminton.
Nimesh Srivastava
Graduate Student
Nimesh graduated from Manipal University, India with major in Electronics and Communication Engineering. Nimesh joined the Signal Science Lab in 2019 and is working on developing wavelet denoising methods for reducing MRI scans. Outside research, he is involved with Cornell’s International Student Union chapter and enjoy swimming, traveling and a big-time foodie.
Zifu Qin
Graduate Student
Zifu completed his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Now Zifu is a graduate student in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell University. Zifu joined the Signal Science Lab in Spring 2022 and is working on developing data processing methods for image analysis. Outside of research, he enjoys music and basketball.
Karen Tsay
Visiting Graduate Student
Karen is a PhD student in Professor Song-I Han’s lab at UCSB. She obtained her BS in Pharmacological Chemistry with a minor in General Biology from UCSD in 2018. Her research focuses on using DEER spectroscopy to probe the structure transformations of IDPs and conformations of polymers. Some of her current works include using bootstrapping to derive uncertainty from DEER data and improving background correction of DEER of non-3D samples. Outside of research, Karen likes to explore restaurants and museums.
Yingying Jin
Visiting Graduate Student
Yingying obtained her B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering at UCSB. She is currently a Ph.D. student in a joint program of Professor Steve K. Buratto’s lab and Professor Michael T. Bowers’ lab. She also actively collaborates with Professor Madhur Srivastava’s and Songi Han’s lab. Her research focuses on developing Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) image analysis methods and using complementary techniques such as Ion Mobility Mass Spectrometry (IM-MS) and DEER spectroscopy to investigate the oligomeric assembly mechanism and early fibril formation of amyloidogenic proteins. Her AFM work has been applied to screen ML-modeled small inhibitor molecules on Abeta42 and TDP43-LCD307-319 designed by a local start-up company named Acelot and founded by UCSB Computer Science Professor Ambuj K. Singh. Outside research, she enjoys exploring new media art exhibitions, morning walks at the local beach, and snowboarding.
Carissa Nair
Undergraduate Student
Carissa is a biological sciences major and Tanner Dean’s Scholar in the College of Arts and Sciences. She joined the lab in 2022 and will be working on the project to diagnose Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis from blood samples by analyzing Cu2+ distances in the SOD1 protein. Previously, she won the Texas Health and Human Services Department’s Innovators in Aging award for her research work in senior living centers. At Cornell, she is involved with the Undergraduate Research Board, Globemed, and Kidney Disease Screening and Awareness program. Outside of science, she’s a choral musician (Soprano 2) and enjoys writing poetry.
Kelly Huang
Undergraduate Researcher
Kelly is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences, majoring in Chemistry. She aspires to work in the pharmaceutical industry, specifically drug discovery and development. She is from New York City and she joined the lab in 2022. She will be conducting research on identifying components of controlled substances, such as cannabis, via EPR spectroscopy. Outside of academics, she enjoys playing chinese yoyo (diabolo), watching true crime videos and discovering new food spots in NYC.
Afnan Arshad
Undergraduate Researcher
Afnan Arshad is a Senior in the College of Arts and Sciences, majoring in Computer Science and Economics. He hails from Islamabad, Pakistan, and spent last semester studying abroad in Auckland, New Zealand. He currently works in the Signal Science Lab on optimizing microscopic images using Python. His interests include soccer and poetry. He can be contacted at aa2439@cornell.edu.
Mansi Agarwal
Undergraduate Researcher
Mansi is an undergraduate student at Cornell University, majoring in Computer Science. She took several computer science courses at Stanford Summer Program. Currently, in her internship, she is analysing audit logs from micro-services of an application. She is also working on a research project to develop an algorithm that reduce the bandwidth requirement for live video streaming without comprising the video quality. She is a student mentor for the prestigious Google CSSI-Coursera program. She aspires to build a digital platform that reaches outer areas, small rural entrepreneurs, where buyers and sellers can connect efficiently and securely, and where small entrepreneurs may seek crowd-funds and advice. Thus, giving wings to a million dreams.
Swarnika Prakash
Media Developer and Content Manager
Swarnika is a junior majoring in Animation and Visual Effects at the GD Goenka University, Gurgaon, India . She is currently doing an internship in the Signal Science Lab, where she is creating visual content and multimedia content for science outreach and communication. She is also a lifestyle blogger and hosts http://swarablogs.com/
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