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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

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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 

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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 

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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

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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

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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

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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.

email: elifozdemir89@gmail.com

BS:  Bioengineering, Ege U.

Masters: Bioengineering, Ege U.

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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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