Now a senior associate in the Biomedical Engineering & Sciences Practice at Exponent, Inc., Ph.D. alum Derek Holyoak's work involves a mix of proactive biomedical research/testing and reactive scientific litigation. Read more
"Following graduation, I will be working as an Associate Specialist in Merck’s IT Emerging Talent Rotational Program, where I will be rotating between projects in Data Science, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Software Engineering." Read more
"[At Cornell BME] I have learned how to manage my time wisely, how to work with and lead a team, how to communicate scientifically, and how to adapt. I’ve developed these important skills throughout my rigorous experience in BME and I was able to combine all of them while leading my design group for our senior capstone project." Read more
"Being able to think critically but also creatively has been a key skill that I’ve developed during my four years as a BME....Being able to rebound from failure, understand why something failed and then reevaluate an approach to make it work based on that failure is a life-long skill that I’m glad I was able to learn early on." Read more
"After graduation, I’ll be moving to San Francisco and working as an Associate Consultant at Trinity Life Sciences...I knew that healthcare consulting specifically would allow me to apply the analytical skills I have developed in BME while continuing to learn about a variety of areas within healthcare and medicine." Read more
"The next step for me after Cornell is being a Decision Analytics Associate at ZS Associates which is a consulting company that works with a wide array of clients including many pharmaceutical and biotech companies." Read more
"I will be pursuing an MS/PhD at Columbia in the BME department as an NSF fellow....I am so excited to take this opportunity to incorporate everything I've learned at Cornell and start my own research project on drug delivery to glioblastomas." Read more
"After Cornell, I will be heading to the National Institutes of Health, where I received a Cancer Research Training Award to fund a post-baccalaureate research position with the Hernandez group (surgical oncology)." Read more
"My degree at Cornell was critical for helping me explore my interests. During my graduate school course work, I had the opportunity to take courses within the department of Human Factors and this exposure was pivotal for my current role as a Senior Human Factors Engineer." Read more
Jason Guss, Ph.D. ’18, is an alumnus of the biomedical engineering program at Cornell. He is now CEO at Iterate Labs, an AI software platform he worked to found when finishing his doctorate. Read more
