Meet The Team

Graduate researcher
Clara Jones
Clara is a second-year PhD student in biomedical engineering. Her interests include patient-specific cardiovascular modeling, cardiovascular health disparities, device design, and machine learning. She loves hiking, camping, gardening, film photography, and listening to music.

Graduate researcher
Adhithi Lakshmikanthan
Adhithi is a first-year BME PhD student. Before coming to UCI she worked on cell-based meat (salmon) at Wildtype. Her current interests include using computational modeling to address sex differences and obesity in cardiovascular diseases. She loves being out in nature, crocheting, hanging out with her cat, going on impromptu roadtrips, and meditating.

Undergraduate Researcher
Minnie Kay
I'm a first year undergraduate majoring in biomedical engineering. I'm curious about the cardiovascular system and am interested in industry. I enjoy playing video games, collecting figurines, and cooking.