Student Profiles
Janielle Cuala
2017 WAVE Fellow
Undergraduate Institution: California State Unviersity, Los Angeles
Hometown: Los Angeles, California
Interests & Hobbies: I love cooking, baking, food, going to the beach, playing basketball, animals (of all kinds!), exploring new music that you don't really hear on the radio, and watching scary movies.
Favorite part of your WAVE Summer: WAVE Mondays! It was a great way to catch up with me other WAVE fellows, and it was always a fun and productive time!
PhD Student at University of Southern California (PIBBS-Medical Biophysics Program). I am currently investigating structure and metabolic function of beta-cells in the context of different stresses such as early life stress and COVID-19
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Sergio Esteban
2018 WAVE Fellow
Undergraduate Institution: California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
Hometown: Riverside, California
Interests & Hobbies: Robotics, Exercising, Creating Music
Favorite part of your WAVE Summer: Meeting Nobel Prize Winners.
I am currently a Undergraduate Senior.
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Rebekah Costello
2019 WAVE Fellow
Undergraduate Institution: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Hometown: Cornelius, North Carolina
Interests & Hobbies: My scientific interests include rational vaccine design and applications of broadly neutralizing antibodies. In my free time, I enjoy kickboxing, hiking, reading, and traveling.
Favorite part of your WAVE Summer: Exploring Pasadena and LA with new friends.
Working for Adimab as a two-year predoctoral research associate with the intention to start a PhD program in fall 2022.
Aakash Bajpai
2017 WAVE Fellow
Undergraduate Institution: University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Hometown: Baltimore, Maryalnd
Interests & Hobbies: Long boarding, kayaking, hiking, cooking
Favorite part of your WAVE Summer: The friends I made and am still able to keep in contact with! I also got exposed to a lot of research I wasn't aware of which influenced my graduate school decision.
PhD in Robotics at Georgia Tech
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Maryann Morales
2019 WAVE Fellow
Undergraduate Institution: UC Riverside
Hometown: Bloomington, California
Interests & Hobbies: Embroidery and Sewing, Cooking
Favorite part of your WAVE Summer: The research, it was so exciting and easy to be passionate about it.
Graduate School at Caltech
Gabriel Goch
2019 WAVE Fellow
Undergraduate Institution: Santa Monica College
Hometown: Moorpark, California
Interests & Hobbies: 3D Printing, Miniature Painting, Fiction Writing
Favorite part of your WAVE Summer: Working in the Research Environment.
UCLA Undergraduate Student
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