Current Ambassadors


Angelina Baltazar
  • Angelina Baltazar '24
  • Major: Biomedical Engineering
  • Minor: Neuroscience
  • Research Focus: Stem Cell Biology, Tissue Engineering, Neuroscience
  • Years of Research Experience: 2
  • High School: A&M Consolidated High School
  • Advisor: Dr. Jennifer Dulin
  • Project(s): Baltazar A. 2022. Analysis of Acute and Chronic Timepoints of Transplanted Neural Progenitor Cells in a Model of Spinal Cord Injury. Undergraduate Research Scholar Thesis. Advisor: Jennifer Dulin. Texas A&M University, College Station, TX.
Angelina Baltazar
  • Angelina Baltazar '24
  • Major: Biomedical Engineering
  • Minor: Neuroscience
  • Research Focus: Stem Cell Biology, Tissue Engineering, Neuroscience
  • Years of Research Experience: 2
  • High School: A&M Consolidated High School
  • Advisor: Dr. Jennifer Dulin
  • Project(s): Baltazar A. 2022. Analysis of Acute and Chronic Timepoints of Transplanted Neural Progenitor Cells in a Model of Spinal Cord Injury. Undergraduate Research Scholar Thesis. Advisor: Jennifer Dulin. Texas A&M University, College Station, TX.
Connor Bowerman
  • Connor Bowerman '24
  • Major: Physics
  • Minor: Philosophy, Math
  • Research Focus: Nonlinear Optics, Quantum Memory, Lasers
  • Years of Research Experience: 1
  • High School: Westlake High School
  • Advisor: Alexey Akimov, Sumana Datta
  • Project(s): Khurana, Mohit, Sina Baghbani Kordmahale, Connor Bowerman, Xiaohan Liu, and Alexey V. Akimov. "3D nano-printing coupler for silicon nitride suspended waveguide." In Advanced Fabrication Technologies for Micro/Nano Optics and Photonics XV, vol. 12012, pp. 55-57. SPIE, 2022.

    I am currently working to make a functional system of all-optical quantum memory for use in a quantum repeater.
Swapnil Dash
  • Swapnil Dash '25
  • Major: Business Honors
  • Minor: Pre-Medicine
  • Research Focus: Spinal-Cord Injury, Experimental Therapeutics, Business of Healthcare
  • Years of Research Experience: 1
  • High School: Westwood High School
  • Advisor: Dr. Michelle Hook, Dr. Len Berry
  • Project(s): Depression, cognitive decline, and development of Alzheimer's Disease following spinal-cord injury. Effects of opiates on recovery of motor function after spinal injury.
Aisha Jalal
  • Aisha Jalal '24
  • Major: Public Health
  • Research Focus: Psychosocial Health, Nature-Based Interventions, Maternal Health
  • Years of Research Experience: 1
  • High School: St. Agnes Academy
  • Advisor: Dr. Ping Ma
Yilin	Li
  • Yilin Li '24
  • Major: Economics, Mathematics
  • Minor: Women and Gender Studies
  • Research Focus: Global Development, Global Economic Growth, Gender Based Violence, Gender Discrimination
  • Years of Research Experience: 1
  • High School: Dulles High School
  • Advisor: Dr. Samuel Cohn
  • Project(s):

    1. Leontief Multipliers: Wassily Leontief created multipliers that can describe the economics of a nation from matrices describing the flow of goods and services. Our team is expanding the research previously done by analyzing 60+ nations with their industry specific multipliers. We are comparing the size of the multipliers from country to country and throughout time, analyzing which patterns emerge and how they are related to other indicators of economic growth. 

    2. Personally, I have started a project in my Econometrics class focused on the determinants of sexual assault reporting and other measures of survivor resources. I studied the Texas' Crime Victim Compensation program for 2019 and hope to expand to other years and other states to understand how to improve resources available to survivors. I would love to expand this research to analyzing the laws and court precedents in the US effect on reporting assault and resources for survivors.

Jordan Moore
  • Jordan Moore '25
  • Major: Genetics
  • Minor: Biomedical Sciences, Public Health
  • Research Focus: Genetics, Oncology, Biology, Entomology
  • Years of Research Experience: 1.5
  • High School: Klein Oak High School
  • Advisor: Hojun Song; Irtisha Singh/Akhilesh Gaharwar
  • Project(s): I have worked on two projects. Last year, I worked with the Song lab, which is a genetics entomology lab. We have discovered two new species of gregarine within the gut of the common field cricket found on our very own campus of Texas A&M University. I focused on the molecular aspect of this lab, aiming to describe the morphology and genetic makeup of these new species of gregarine. Currently, I am working in the Singh lab (partnered with the Gaharwar lab.) Here, we are working on developing a bioprinted glioblastoma model in order to understand the relationship between brain endothelial cells (EC) and glioblastoma stem-like cells (GSC.)
Keerthana Prayaga
  • Keerthana Prayaga '24
  • Major: Public Health
  • Research Focus: Public Health, Medicine
  • Years of Research Experience: 1.5
  • High School: Westwood High School
  • Advisor: Dr.Natalie Johnson; Dr.Ashok Shetty
  • Project(s): Research project investigating the presence of SFN metabolites in human breastmilk and their effectiveness in combatting respiratory infections in nursing infants.

    Gulf War Illness Project.
Sameeksha Sharma
  • Sameeksha Sharma '24
  • Major: Biomedical Engineering
  • Research Focus: Regenerative Medicine, Stem Cells, Tissue Engineering, Biomaterials
  • Years of Research Experience: 2
  • High School: Chelmsford High School
  • Advisor: Dr. Feng Zhao
  • Project(s): Optimizing protocols to maximize thickness of extracellular matrix derived scaffold to better facilitate cell interaction and integration in a regenerative cardiac patch.
Miriam Stein
  • Miriam Stein '24
  • Major: Molecular and Cell Biology
  • Minor: Bioinformatics
  • Research Focus: Biochemistry, Pharmacology, Copper Metabolism
  • Years of Research Experience: 1
  • High School: BASIS San Antonio - Shavano Campus
  • Advisor: Dr. Vishal Gohil
  • Project(s): Investigating elesclomol as a potential therapeutic for genetic disorders of copper deficiency.
Hannah Thomas
  • Hannah Thomas '25
  • Major: Biomedical Sciences
  • Research Focus: Neuroscience, Stem Cell Transplantation, Spinal Cord Injury
  • Years of Research Experience: 1
  • High School: Elkins High School
  • Advisor: Dr. Jennifer Dulin
Meera Trikur
  • Meera Trikur '23
  • Major: Materials Science & Engineering
  • Minor: Engineering Project Management
  • Research Focus: Climate Change, Criminal Justice, Public Policy
  • Years of Research Experience: 1
  • High School: Reedy High School
  • Advisor: Dr. J. Carlee Purdum