Spotlights

Cornell Engineering likes to feature our new faculty, our incredible students, staff, alumni and teams who do amazing work everyday. 

Qiwei (Alex) Li

Alumni Spotlight: Qiwei (Alex) Li, M.Eng. 2019

"The BME MEng at Cornell was the perfect fit for me . . . what really appealed to me was the flexibility of choices in choosing your path in the large field of biomedical engineering and the opportunity to work with industry experts and physicians on solving real-world medical problems." Read more

Some of the robots used in the AMR class of Hadas Kress-Gazit

Running robots, from a distance

When students in Associate Professor Hadas Kress-Gazit’s MAE 4180\5180 Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMR) class left campus in March due to the growing COVID-19 crisis, they had taken part in only two of... Read more

jonathan perrier

Jonathan Perrier, M.Eng. Student

"I was always passionate about creating the future of medicine and health. To me BME is a methodological and practical method for designing innovative tech. I saw BME as a way to convert biology and chemistry theories into real-world solutions." Read more

Vanessa Cabral Martins

Vanessa Cabral Martins, M.Eng. Student

"What I like the most is the opportunity to work on our design project as if we were working in industry . . . to experience how it is going to be when we start working, both technically and collaboratively. Moreover, it has helped me develop my skills and I feel ready and comfortable to enter the workforce." Read more

Sochima Bishop

Sochima Bishop, M.Eng. Student

"I really appreciate the breadth of research in the BME department. Last semester I took three great classes: Principles of Drug Delivery (w/ Dr. Putnam), Stem Cell Engineering (w/ Dr. Cosgrove), and Immuno-engineering (w/ Dr. Singh)." Read more

Geoffrey Rouin

Geoffrey Rouin, M.Eng. '19

"BME allows you to have a broad variety of experience and leverage that interdisciplinary experience in solving problems that face the field of medicine." Read more