Team

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Student Members

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Alexei Manuel
Alexei is a senior at San Francisco University High School. He joined the team by cold emailing every Bay Area team. Outside of swims, friends, and projects in biology and AI, he experiments with supplements and diets, usually to his family’s detriment.
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Alisha Faraz
Alisha is a senior at Khan Lab School. She enjoys working on programming projects, reading mystery novels, watching mystery novels and drinking lots of boba with her friends.
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Alyssa Tang
Alyssa is a junior at Proof, a school for kids who love math. She joined the team after emailing the team her resume.
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Anandita Mukherjee
Anandita is a sophomore at Khan Lab School. In addition to iGEM, Anandita plays volleyball, has been known to paint, and solves logic puzzles for fun.
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Ansh Thakkar
Ansh is a senior at Khan Lab School and co-founder of the team. He enjoys cooking, gardening and experimenting with technology in his free time.
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Aria Patel
Aria is a freshman at Khan Lab School who enjoys creative writing, baking, and reading mystery novels.
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Avery Davis
Avery is an junior at Khan Lab School and is probably tied with Paul for the best sleep schedule. Avery enjoys reading, tea, plant science, and GIS mapping.
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Khushi Thakkar
Khushi is a sophomore grader at Khan Lab School who enjoys writing fiction, exploring math, looking/creating maps, and taking trains!
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Meilin Hansen
MeiLin, a senior grader at Gunn High School in Palo Alto, loves music—both playing cello and listening to her favorite bands. Her other passions include robotics, good food, and puzzles.
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Nicholas Hernandez
Nick is a senior at Khan Lab School and co-founder of the team. In his free time, he enjoys archery and rock climbing.
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Nikhil Venkat
Nikhil is a freshman at Khan Lab School. In his free time, he enjoys swimming, hanging out with friends, playing the piano, and exploring animations and simulations. You can often find him yapping about dinosaurs, astrophysics or molecular biology.
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Paul Norberg
Paul is an junior who goes to school in Mountain View. In his spare time, he likes to play the piano, go on long walks, and participate in mock trial competitions.
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Rohan Vijendran
Rohan is a freshman grader who lives in Mountain View, California and goes to Bellarmine College Prep. He likes to play the bass, debate, and play table tennis.
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Sameer Rajdev
Sameer is a sophomore grader at Khan Lab School, who enjoys building things and coding. He is particularly interested in creating tools and prototypes that bridge creativity and engineering.
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Shreeya Kurapati
Shreeya is a freshman going to Khan Lab School. She likes to do research, build cool stuff, travel, and read mystery novels.
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Zoya Khare
Zoya is a sophomore grader at Khan Lab School with a vested interest in making involved presentations about obscure historical figures and reading. On the team, her role consists of pontificating and social media.

Mentors

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Baxter Smith
Baxter is the PI, and also serves as the Innovation Hub Director at Khan Lab School, guiding students from project design through hands-on lab work and outreach. A dedicated educator in experiential, student-driven learning, he’s also an avid frisbee player and outdoor enthusiast.
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Christopher Hernandez
Chris is a professor in the departments of Orthopaedic Surgery and Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences at UCSF and the department of Bioengineering at UC Berkeley. He enjoys encouraging the team to create golf tees.
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Jenny Mae Samson
Jenny Mae is the team's advisor with a Ph.D. in Cancer Biology and a B.A. in Biochemistry. She is an accomplished researcher with advanced lab and bioinformatics experience and now works in patenting.
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Shreyas Parkhie
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Galen Davis
Galen is a Silicon Valley tech executive with inventions in mobile networking and cryptography. In his private life he's been a successful youth sports coach and held several appointed positions in local government.
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Wilfred Tang
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Smruti Vidwans
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