Biography

I graduated from Rutgers University with a double major in Biomedical Engineering and Ecology. A native of Cranford, New Jersey, my wanderlust has led me to spend a year traveling the world and in so doing, witness a startling degree of poverty. I am now an active member of Engineers Without Borders, through which I have established a project to bring pure water to people in northern Thailand. As informed by my major in ecology, I believe that the world’s deteriorating environmental conditions disproportionately affect the poor. I intend to devote my career toward improving global health. I will spend my graduate studies creating a low cost, high precision lab-on-a-chip that can be used to detect disease in remote, resource-poor settings. At Cambridge, I will design biosensors that can be used in such platforms.