Baran Lab Members
Lab Management
Yu Kawamata
INSTITUTE INVESTIGATOR
Kyoto University
Kyoto University
Tamara Ewing
LAB MANAGER
CSUSM
Michelle Gassert
SR ADMIN II / LAB MANAGER
Postdoctoral Associates
Molhm Nassir
Bar Ilan University Fulbright Fellowship VATAT Fellowship
Baiyang Jiang
Purdue University
Purdue University
Yinliang Guo
Peking University
Shuang Hu Wang
Shanghai Jiaotong University (SJTU)
Siyuan Postdoctoral Fellowship
Griffin Barnes
UC Irvine
David Cagan
Caltech
NSF Mathematical and Physical Sciences Postdoctoral Fellowship
Yin Li
SIOC
SIOC Fellowship
Brandon Campbell
Harvard University
NIH F32 Postdoctoral Fellowship
Rakesh Mondal
Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
WIS-Senior Postdoctoral Fellowship
Graduate Students
Alexandros Pollatos
Rice University
Skaggs Fellow
Dean’s Fellow
NSF GRFP
Anthony Rodriguez
University of California, San Diego
Christine Chong
University of California, Los Angeles
Philipp Neigenfind
Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Kellogg Fellowship
2025-2026 Bristol Myers Squibb Graduate Fellowship
Yiheng (Anna) Li
University of California, Berkeley
Maithili Pokle
University of Pennsylvania
Mahdi Jafarzadeh Bedoustani
University of Tehran
Alex Lin
Rice University
NSF GRFP
Pierre Loch-Temzelides
Rice University
Carlos F. Barbas III Endowed Memorial Fellowship
NIH T32GM159580
2025-2026 ARCS Scholar
Nima Nasiri
ETH Zürich
Scripps Family Endowed Fellowship
Oliver Ring
University of Leeds
Carlyle Mackenzie
University of California, Berkeley
David C. Fairchild Endowed Fellowship
Ben Buchberger
Philipps-Universität Marburg
John C. Martin Endowed Fellowship
Sihan Chen
Nankai University
David C. Fairchild Endowed Fellowship
Marcell Bogner
Budapest University of Technology and Economics
Visiting Graduate Students
Marti Sidro
IRB Barcelona - Universitat de Barcelona
Alessio Fedele
ETH Zürich
Ryusei Ohkura
Nagoya University
Undergraduate Students
Gohith Boga
UC San Diego
Jeffery Yu
UC San Diego
Yankai Chen
UC San Diego
Zhaocong (Alex) Yuan
Imperial College London
Yiyan Yi
Nanjing University
Charles Umeda
Point Loma Nazarene University
High School Students
Rajan Gollapudi
Leah Baran
