Role: Graduate Student

Marissa Buccilli is a PhD candidate in the Rhetoric and Writing program at Virginia Tech. Her research interests include the rhetoric of science, health, and medicine; health humanities; and technical communication. She brings experience in instructional design, qualitative research, and projects that support community-engaged health initiatives, with a particular focus on how language shapes clinical … Read more

I recently completed my Bachelor’s degree in Public Health at Virginia Tech and am currently continuing my education through Virginia Tech’s accelerated Master of Public Health program, with a concentration in Infectious Diseases. This past year I worked with the National Institutes of Health, and had the opportunity to work on clinical trial dashboard analyses … Read more

Kateland Sipe is a master’s student in Computer Science and Applications at Virginia Tech, advised by Dr. Murali. She earned two B.S. degrees in Biology and Mathematics with a specialization in Data Science from Bowling Green State University, where she graduated summa cum laude. Prior to graduate school, she worked as a research assistant then … Read more

Amartya is a PhD student in Computer Science at Virginia Tech, specializing in Language Models and multimodal data. During my Master’s, I worked with Vision-Language Models (VLMs) to predict structured Scene Graph relationships without additional fine-tuning. My research focuses on enhancing the reasoning capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) and VLMs for various downstream tasks. … Read more

Mira is a PhD candidate in Krista Wigginton’s group at the University of Michigan. Her research interests are measuring and predicting virus disinfection and removal in water and wastewater treatment processes. She collects data through laboratory experiments and systematic reviews. She analyses these data with statistical and predictive models to generate insight into the drivers … Read more

Femi is a final-year Ph.D. candidate in Colin Parrish’s lab within the Biological and Biomedical Sciences Ph.D. program at Cornell University. His research focuses on the structural and functional relationships between viruses and antibodies,

I am a final year Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, USA. I am co-advised by Dr. T. M. Murali and Dr. Anuj Karpatne. My research interests include using computational methods such as natural language processing, graph machine learning, and generative modeling to solve impactful problems in Systems Biology … Read more

Hyoju is a PhD student in Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Michigan, advised by Professor Krista Wigginton. Her research focuses on UV virus disinfection, particularly the tailing effect observed during viral inactivation. She aims to elucidate the mechanisms behind this phenomenon to improve the effectiveness of UV-based water treatment technologies. Her broader … Read more

I am a PhD student in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Virginia Tech, where I research bioaerosols in indoor environments. As a member of the PIPP research group at the COMPASS center, I am currently working on using machine learning to gain deeper insights into the virus inactivation process. Before joining Virginia … Read more