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Meet our team
Research Staff
Fellows
Graduate Students
Undergraduates
Visiting Scholars
Alumni
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Amina Ann Qutub
Principal Investigator
Amina has focused her career on pioneering methods at the interface of computer science, neurovascular biology and engineering in order to understand how human cells communicate during processes of growth and repair, and to use this fundamental knowledge to help eradicate hematological and neurological diseases.
Burzik Professor in Engineering Design
Research Thrust Lead, MATRIX AI Consortium
Affiliations:
Member, U.S. National Academies, Biotechnology & National Security Committee
Member, UTSA-UT Health Graduate Group in Biomedical Engineering
Member, Institute for Regenerative Medicine
Member, Brain Health Consortium
Bio | Resume | CV
email: amina.qutub@utsa.edu
PhD: Bioengineering, Berkeley & UCSF
Postdoc: Johns Hopkins University
Department: Biomedical Engineering
Awards: AIMBE Fellow, NSF CAREER Awardee, Bioinformatics Peer Prize, NAKFI Awardee, NIH NRSA Fellow, Whitaker Fellow
Byron Long
Assistant Professor of Instruction,
Computer Science
Byron Long’s doctoral research was in logic for programs that use dynamic memory. Byron built on his training in logic to develop innovative state machine models of endothelial cells and a modeling framework for testing biological hypotheses. He combines these approaches with novel image-analysis programs to study how human cells form tissues, and predictive algorithms to interpret how molecular and cell-level changes influence daily behaviors at a systems level.
email: byron.long@utsa.edu
PhD: Computer Science, Indiana U.
Postdoc: Rice University
Projects: Quantu, cytoNet
Awards: Computational Cancer Biology Training Fellow
Jennifer Brethen
Quantu Project Manager
Jennifer (Jenny) Brethen is the Quantu Project manager and a post-bac fellow in UTSA's Department of Biomedical Engineering.
email: jennifer.brethen@utsa.edu
BS: University of Texas, San Antonio
Projects: The Quantu Project
Sean Tritley
Graduate Researcher
Sean is a senior biomedical engineering undergraduate student and incoming graduate student developing innovative vascularized models of brain regions that regulate sleep, exercise response and circadian rhythm. Sean's co-mentor is Dr. Eric Brey, vascular engineer and Chair of the UTSA Department of Biomedical and Chemical Engineering.
email: tritley.sean@yahoo.com
Projects: Vascularized brain-in-a-dish models & experiments, Quantu
Awards: UTSA College of Engineering Fellowship, NSF BRAVe Fellowship
Tomisin Adebayo
Undergraduate Researcher
Tomisin is a biomedical engineering undergraduate student researching computational and experimental methods to uncover how neural networks form.
email: tomisinadebayo@gmail.com
Projects: cytoNet, Quantu Project
Awards: Xilinx Fellowship in Artificial Intelligence, NSF BRAVe Fellowship
Grace Polston
Undergraduate Researcher
Grace is a biomedical engineering undergraduate student working in the lab to develop model systems of areas of the brain regulating sleep and response to exercise.
email: gpolston.uni@gmail.com
Projects: Brain models, Quantu Project
Elif Ozdemir Kaynak
Visiting Graduate Student
Elif is a PhD candidate in bioengineering at Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University. While visiting in the Qutub lab as part of her thesis work, she is developing a computational model of nanoparticle-encapsulated delivery of bioactive flavanoids (anthocyanins) through the blood-brain barrier and anthocyanin uptake as a potential novel treatment of brain cancer.
Qutub Lab Graduate Profiles & Alumni List
Qutub Lab Alumni
Aishwarya Sathish, B.S.
Undergraduate Student, University of Texas at San Antonio
Keith Kern
Undergraduate Student, Trinity University
Kelsey Phelan, B.S.
Graduate Student, University of Texas at San Antonio
Arun Mahadevan, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Pennsylvania
Tien Tang, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow, Texas Children's Hospital
Sanket Mehta
Undergraduate Student, Rice University
Natalie Dickman
Undergraduate Student, Rice University
Andrew Ligeralde, B.S.
Graduate Student, University of California, Berkeley
Quentin (Hanyang) Li, B.S.
Graduate Student, Carnegie Mellon
Chenyue Wendy Hu, PhD
Data Scientist, Uber
Founder, DiBS
Andre Schultz, PhD
Bioinformaticist, Stanford University, School of Medicine
Sanjana Ranganathan, M.B.E., B.S.
Clinical Consultant, GE Healthcare
Kylie Balotin, B.S.
Graduate Student, Vanderbilt University
Nicholas (Cole) E. Grandel, B.S.
Graduate Student, Rice University (SSPB)
Jennifer Dawkins, B.S.
Graduate Student, MIT & Harvard University (HST)
David Noren, PhD
Scientist, Phillips Research
Amada Abrego, M.B.E.
Graduate Student, Rice University (ECE, Neuro)
Alex Bisberg, B.S.
Graduate Student, University of Utah
Founder, DiBS
Ka Wai Lin, PhD
Data Scientist, Allstate
Angela Liao, B.S.
Graduate Student, University of California, San Diego
Jiwon Jung, B.S.
Graduate Student, University of Texas, Austin
Nikhil Gupte
Medical Student, UT-Health San Antonio
David Gabriel Mora-Boellstorff
Graduate Student, UT-Health Sciences, Houston
David Ryan, M.B.E.
Product Development Engineer, EKOS Corporation
Becky Zaunbrecher, PhD
Allen Institute for Cell Science
Rahul Rekhi, M.S.
Financial and Healthcare Advisor, Lazard
Holley Love, PhD
Engineer, JBL Technologies
Instructional Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Houston
Taylor Birk, B.S.
Software Engineer, Hewlett Packard
Rocio Nava
Head of Biomedical Engineering, San Jorge Hospital
Shun-Ming Ting, M.B.E.
Research Associate, Baylor
Heather York Brisendine, B.S.
Engineering Consultant, Alliantgroup Houston
Tyler Young, B.S.
Medical Student, Baylor College of Medicine
Grace Ching, B.S.
Medical Student, Texas A&M
Norman Truong, PhD
Clinical Data Consultant, Ritual
Ashley Kelsey
NAVWAR Test Manager, United States Air Force
Joanna Nathan, B.S., M.B.E.
Venture Fellow, Mercury Fund
Founder, Enventure
Duncan Eddy, M.S.
Capella Space Corporation
Abir Khan, M.D.
Clinician, Baylor College of Medicine
Alex Arevalos, PhD
Chief Technology Officer & Co-Founder, Alleviant Medical
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