Research teams
Each team is run by student project managers and staffed by research analysts, with a CMC faculty advisor guiding the science.
Health Team
Bacterial field incubation
Agricultural antibiotic use, as in shrimp farming in the Philippines, is speeding up antibiotic resistance in regions with no affordable way to track it. The team is designing a low-cost, portable incubator that tests bacterial samples for resistance in the field, so health workers know which antibiotics will work.
Faculty advisor
Professor Shaun Lee
Project managers
Clarence Lin
Pooja Punn
Research analysts
Amber Zhang
Christan Park
Annie Liu
Ananya Sriniketh
Cerena Karmaliani
Nathan Weinstein
Isabella Rodriguez
Environmental Team
Microbial responses to rain in dry soils
Soil microbes that release carbon dioxide, and methanotrophs that pull methane from the air, go dormant through Southern California’s dry summers. This new project measures how each group reacts to sudden rain, building on preliminary data from the Keller Lab at the Bernard Field Station.
Faculty advisor
Professor Jason Keller
Project managers
Heena Suleman
Jayden Kadiman
Research analysts
Stella Rhee
Anika Ravi
Dylan Jackel
Ailani Rodriguez
Aleena Wong
Reese Gutierrez
Physics Team
Computer vision and biophysics
A two-camera computer vision pipeline extracts athletes’ joint positions over time. The team turns that data into velocities, forces, and torques to model what makes a pitch, spike, or throw succeed, with applications to injury and performance.
Faculty advisor
Professor Pranav Khandelwal
Project manager
Angeline Hu
Research analysts
Ethan Ha
Mariana Ela
Sophia (Yewon) Lee
Leadership
The executive board runs CMsci day to day. Faculty mentors guide the organization and each research team.
Faculty
Ran Libeskind-Hadas
Faculty sponsor
Emily Wiley
Faculty liaison
Executive board
Alejandro Bedoya Norena
Executive Director
Anuj Patel
Director of Research
Katherine Kosch
Director of Finance
Deven Sheth
Director of Outreach
Jie Yi (Denise) Chen
Director of Operations
Scarlett Welch
Marketing Lead
Molly Beetner
Marketing Lead
Shaun Lee
Faculty advisor, Health Team
Jason Keller
Faculty advisor, Environmental Team
Pranav Khandelwal
Faculty advisor, Physics Team
Join a research team
Analyst applications open every fall. Any major, any class year.