2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

1. Elizabeth Horstman University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign [biography]

   Elizabeth Horstman is a third-year graduate student from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign pursuing a Ph.D. in chemical engineering. Her research focuses on developing microfluidic platforms for applications in pharmaceutical drug discovery. Aside from her research, Horstman is the director of the graduate division of the Society of Women Engineers (GradSWE) at Illinois. In this role, she hopes to encourage women to pursue graduate school, support them throughout their graduate education, and help prepare them for their future careers.

2. Miss Danielle Jamie Mai University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign [biography]

   Danielle J. Mai is a Ph.D. candidate in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Mai earned her B.S.E. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Michigan. She is a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow and an Illinois Mavis Future Faculty Fellow. Her dissertation research focuses on improving the understanding of branched polymer dynamics via single molecule experiments. Mai is an active member and current speaker coordinator of the Graduate Committee of the Society of Women Engineers (GradSWE).

3. Dr. Yanfen Li http://orcid.org/https://0000-0002-9465-7147 University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign [biography]

   Yanfen Li is a third-year Ph.D. student in the department of Bioengineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research focus is on biomaterials and tissue engineering. At the U of I, she is the Academic Liaison for the graduate section of the Society of Women Engineers.

4. Prof. Rohit Bhargava University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign [biography]

   Rohit Bhargava is Bliss Faculty Scholar of Engineering and Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Bhargava received dual B.Tech. degrees in Chemical Engineering and Polymer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in 1996. His doctoral thesis work in the Case Western Reserve University Department of Macromolecular Science and Engineering was in the area of polymer spectroscopy. He then worked as a Research Fellow at the National Institutes of Health (2000-2005) in the area of biomedical vibrational spectroscopy. Bhargava has been at Illinois since as Assistant Professor (2005-2011), Associate Professor (2011-2012) and Professor (2012-Present). He founded and serves as the coordinator of the Cancer Community @ Illinois. Research in the Bhargava laboratories focuses on fundamental theory and simulation for vibrational spectroscopic imaging, developing new instrumentation and developing chemical imaging for molecular pathology.

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