Past Members

CAST ALUMNI

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From CAST to industry, academia and government

 

Research faculty, staff, postdocs and students who were part of the Center for Advanced Sensor Technology, and where they are now. Former members can send us their updates.

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AT A GLANCE

Where they are now

 

100+

PAST MEMBERS

20+

COMPANIES

Alumni have also gone on to graduate and medical school at universities such as Cambridge and Columbia, and to the FDA and NIH.

INDUSTRY

Alexion  Arenal Medical  Astek Diagnostics  AstraZeneca  Cardinal Health  CAZA Group  CenterHQ  Champions Oncology  Conductive Technologies  Eli Lilly  Equala Therapeutics  FUJIFILM Diosynth Biotechnologies  Ginkgo Bioworks  Johnson & Johnson  Merck  Meso Scale Diagnostics  Northrop Grumman  P&E Engineering and Consulting  RICOVR Healthcare  Samsung Biologics  Smithers  Sutro Biopharma

GRADUATE AND MEDICAL SCHOOL

Columbia University  UMBC  UNC‑Chapel Hill  University of Cambridge  University of Delaware  University of Maryland  University of Minnesota

GOVERNMENT

FDA  NIH

Research Faculty  6

 
Yordan Kostov

Yordan Kostov

Research Associate Professor, Assistant Director
Leah Tolosa

Leah Tolosa

Research Associate Professor, Assistant Director

Sai Sathish Ramamurthy

Research Assistant Professor

NOW  AstraZeneca

Chandrasekhar Gurramkonda

Research Associate Professor

NOW  AstraZeneca

Manohar Pilli

Research Assistant Professor

NOW  FUJIFILM Diosynth Biotechnologies

Rajani Adiga

Research Assistant Professor

Research Staff  21

 

Karuna Mupparapu

CAST Lab Manager

Sarah Burney

Research Faculty Assistant

NOW  Medical student, University of Maryland

Monireh Marsafari

Visiting Research Faculty Assistant

NOW  Ginkgo Bioworks

Abhay Andar

Assistant Research Scientist

NOW  Champions Oncology

Preety Ahuja

Assistant Research Scientist

NOW  Conductive Technologies

Sanjeev Kumar Ujjain

Assistant Research Scientist

NOW  Conductive Technologies

Kevin Tran

Research Engineer

NOW  CenterHQ

Erick Gutierrez

System Design Engineer

NOW  Eli Lilly

Mustafa Al-Adhami

Research Assistant

NOW  Astek Diagnostics

Benjamin Punshon-Smith

Research Assistant

NOW  P&E Engineering and Consulting

David Burgenson

Research Assistant

NOW  Sutro Biopharma

Sevda Deldari

Research Assistant

NOW  FDA

Joel Tyson

Research Assistant

NOW  PhD candidate, UMBC

Lynn Wong

Research Assistant

NOW  AstraZeneca

Sheniqua Brown

Research Assistant

NOW  Northrop Grumman

Shayan Borhani

Research Assistant

NOW  Equala Therapeutics

Md Sadique Hasan

Research Assistant

NOW  Arenal Medical

Vida Rahmatnejad

Research Assistant

NOW  Alexion, AstraZeneca RDU

Hasibul Hasan

Research Assistant

NOW  RICOVR Healthcare

Zach Sheffield

Research Assistant

Vikash Kumar

Research Assistant

NOW  Merck

Postdoctoral Associates  3

 

Viki Chopda

NOW  Samsung Biologics

Sai Kiran Mani

Chariz Penalber

NOW  NIH

Graduate Students  4

 

Neveen Faris

NOW  PhD student, CBEE, UMBC

Chad Sundberg

Timothy Holzberg

NOW  Merck

Dagmawi Tiluhan

NOW  Merck

    

Undergraduate Interns  21

 

Tithi Prajapati

NOW  Master’s student, UNC-Chapel Hill

Mesha Shajahan

NOW  MD-PhD student, University of Minnesota Medical School

Constance Danjoy

Summer Intern

NOW  BS student in Instrumentation, France

Terra Miley

NOW  PhD student, University of Delaware

Christopher Slaughter

NOW  PhD student, University of Cambridge

Samyukta Rao

NOW  Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health

Brandon Wagner

NOW  CAZA Group

Priyanka Rauniyar

NOW  Johnson & Johnson

Chang Wu Mungai

Aravind Yeramilli

Meera Mysore

NOW  Smithers Pharmaceutical Development Services

Harley Edwards

NOW  Meso Scale Diagnostics

Vandan Thakkar

Eric Ankers

Violet Haya

Anjali Shankar

NOW  Cardinal Health

Lei Tolosa

Neelesh Mupparapu

Leanne Domingo

Niki Gooya

Elizabeth Tan

To update your information, email Govind Rao at grao@umbc.edu or Venkatesh Srinivasan at ven@umbc.edu.

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