Congratulations to Siebel Scholar Recipients 2026!
Congratulations to Yuhan (Sherlyn) Wang, Shayesteh Arasti, and Muhammad Waleed Khalid on being named 2026 Siebel Scholars at UC San Diego. The Siebel Scholars Program recognizes outstanding graduate students for their academic excellence, leadership, and achievements in bioengineering and related engineering disciplines, awarding each recipient a $35,000 scholarship. Yuhan Wang is a Bioengineering Ph.D. candidate whose research uses computational and bioinformatics approaches to study the microbiome, metagenomics, and gene expression, while Shayesteh Arasti is a Computer Science and Engineering Ph.D. candidate developing computational methods for evolutionary biology and genomics. Muhammad Waleed Khalid is an Electrical Engineering Ph.D. candidate specializing in photonics and opto-magnetics, with research advancing technologies for next-generation data storage and information processing. Learn more about the Siebel Scholars Program here!.
Congratulations to our 2026 GEM Awardees!
Congratulations to the 2026 Galvanizing Engineering in Medicine (GEM) Awardees, whose interdisciplinary projects bring together UC San Diego engineering and clinical researchers to develop innovative solutions to challenging problems in healthcare. This year’s funded projects span a diverse range of medical challenges, including bone fracture risk in children with cerebral palsy; wireless pulmonary artery pressure sensing for children with single-ventricle heart defects; wearable robotic stroke therapy; neurovascular dysfunction and recovery; and lipid loss during enteral nutrition in critically ill newborns. The awarded teams include Rachel Thompson, Claire Acevedo, and Jean-Philippe Berteau; Sanjeet Hegde and Prabhakar Bandaru; Tania Morimoto, Michael Tolley, Kunal Agrawal, and Brett Meyer; Linda Shi and Wei Sun; and Lars Bode, Karen Mestan, Frank Talke, and Kathy Weiss, respectively. Through these projects, the GEM Initiative continues to foster collaboration between engineers and clinicians to translate innovative technologies into meaningful advances in patient care. Learn more about the GEM Initiative and its projects here!
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