Our Alumni

Current Professors:

• Jensine Paoletti-Hatcher, Ph.D. – Assistant Professor, Portland State University
• Marzieh Majd, Pharm.D., Ph.D. – Instructor in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School / Brigham & Women’s Hospital
• Angie S. LeRoy, Ph.D. – Assistant Professor, University of North Florida
• Luz M. Garcini, Ph.D., MPH – Assistant Professor, Rice University; Director, Center for Community & Public Health, Kinder Institute
• Kyle W. Murdock, Ph.D. – Associate Professor, Pennsylvania State University; Director, DRIVES Lab
• Diana Chirinos Medina, Ph.D. – Assistant Professor, University of Miami
• Annina Seiler, Ph.D. – Resident Psychologist, University Hospital of Zurich

Current Postdoctoral Fellows:

• Lydia L. Chung, Ph.D. – Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Pittsburgh
• Ivanova Veras de Jesús, Ph.D. – Postdoctoral Fellow, Rice University (outside BMED Lab)

Alumni: Undergraduate Research Assistants (RAs) & Post-bacc

• Megan R. Lewis – Pediatric Hospital Medicine Fellow, Children’s National Hospital
• Vansh Vohra – Medical Student, Texas Tech University HSC (Paul L. Foster SOM)
• Valentina Gonzalez – Physician Assistant Program, Western University of Health Sciences
• Tess Gabert, M.D. – Psychiatry Resident, University of Washington
• Ambreen Iqbal, Ph.D. – Assistant Professor, University of South Asia
• Miranda Proctor – Ph.D. Student, University of Central Florida (Clinical Psychology)
• Pearl Ye – Ph.D. Student, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
• Samantha Cheng – Medical Student, UT Southwestern
• Sanika Rane – Medical Student, Baylor College of Medicine
• Joon Lee – Clinical Research Coordinator, Massachusetts General Hospital
• Taylor Stowers – Former Undergraduate RA
• Reggie Bell – Former Undergraduate RA
• Hira Tariq – Research role, Baylor College of Medicine
• Amara Anyanwu – Former Undergraduate RA
• Ricky Pagnozzi II – Former NSF REU Research Intern Summer 2025
• Francesca Yanos – Former Rice Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) Intern Summer 2025
• Sarah Roberts – MSW Candidate, University of Michigan
• Emily Bradshaw, M.Ed., LPC – Therapist, Greater Houston area
• Janet Fan – Ophthalmology Resident, University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB)
• Ashley Fite – Special Assistant, District of Columbia Government
• Yunmin Oh – Conversational AI Design & Research; MHCI alum, Carnegie Mellon University
• Liseth Perez-Sanchez – Staff, University of Miami; Former Senior RA, BMED Lab
• Charisma Abolo – Former Undergraduate RA
• Ananya Kar – Former Undergraduate RA
• Aaron Chu – Former Undergraduate RA
• Joanna Coram – Former Undergraduate RA
• Ethan Nguyen – Former Undergraduate RA
• Autumn Bittel – Former Undergraduate RA
• John Douglas – Former Undergraduate RA
• Sam Gao – Former Undergraduate RA
• Kelly Klak – Former Undergraduate RA
• Andy Leung – Former Undergraduate RA
• Ben Singh – Former Undergraduate RA
• Catherine Renderos – Former Undergraduate RA
• Sally L. Acebo, D.O. – Psychiatry Resident, University of Mississippi Medical Center
• Yoully Kang – Former Project Coordinator, Project CHROMA
• Michelle Dai, M.D. – Internal Medicine Resident, University of Chicago
• Jonathan de la Cruz – Assurance Associate, PwC Houston; Rice Business MS alum
• Amy Doan – Pathology Staff, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Jade Kanemitsu – Senior Project Manager, Qualtrics
• Shelly Zhou – Mental Health Therapist, Resilience Lab (PA/MA Telehealth)
• Trenton Fryman – Rice Professional Science Master’s alum (recent admin internship)
• Isabel Greiner – Former Post-baccalaureate
• Lisa Forger – Former Post-baccalaureate
• Josee Alanis – Former Undergraduate RA
• Oeishi Banerjee – Consultant, Accenture; Rice alum
• Krystal Cheng – Former Undergraduate RA
• Nyla Vela – Former Undergraduate RA