Seven honored as Siebel Scholars
Seven Berkeley engineering students have been named to the Siebel Scholars Foundation’s class of 2023. The graduate students — five from bioengineering and two from computer science — are among 83 students selected worldwide for their academic achievements and demonstrated leadership.
The Siebel Scholars program annually recognizes top students at the world’s leading graduate schools of bioengineering, business, computer science and energy science. Now in its 22nd year, the program awards each student a $35,000 scholarship. More than 1,600 of the world’s brightest minds are Siebel Scholars.
“My congratulations go to these outstanding students for earning this distinguished honor from the Siebel Scholars Foundation,” said Tsu-Jae King Liu, dean and Roy W. Carlson Professor of Engineering at Berkeley. “This scholarship will allow them to pursue new research directions to advance knowledge and innovation in their fields. I look forward to seeing all that they will accomplish as Siebel Scholars in the future.”
Meet the 2023 class of Siebel Scholars at Berkeley:
- Jordan Baker is consulting for a startup company specializing in environmental bioremediation.
- Kelsey DeFrates is developing new therapeutics to regenerate tissues damaged by injury or disease.
- Juan Hurtado is engineering CRISPR-based systems for the directed evolution of human proteins in mammalian cells.
- Michael Lam is modeling cancer populations within body tissues as ecological entities using generalized Lotka-Volterra equations.
- Gabriela Lomeli is studying the role of protein isoforms in cancer through the development of microfluidic, single-cell analysis tools.
- Kaushik Shivakumar is studying epistemic uncertainty estimation in deep neural networks.
- Connor Tsuchida is developing viral and non-viral strategies for tissue-specific delivery of CRISPR systems for human genome engineering.
The Siebel Scholars Foundation made the announcement today.
