Team

Faculty

Jiyoon Yi

Assistant Professor
yijiyoon@msu.edu
517-353-4456

Graduate Students

Undergraduate Students

Lab Managers at Food Safety Research Team

Ian Hildebrandt, Ph.D.

Research Assistant II
hildeb44@msu.edu
517-353-3334

Michael James

Research Assistant II
jamesmi3@msu.edu
517-353-8531

Former Members

Grads    
Mateja Milicevic
PhD Student, Biosystems Engineering
Research Engineer, Aaru (AI startup), NY
 08/2024–08/2025
MeiLi Papa
MS in Biosystems Engineering
Continuing in the lab as a PhD student
 Graduated 05/2025
Undergrads    
Jakob Harper
Biosystems Engineering
MS in Bioengineering, UCLA, CA
 05/2024–09/2025
Sania Sinha
Computer Science
MSc in Math & Foundations of Computer Science, University of Oxford, UK
 08/2023–09/2025
Gillian Kuehnle
Biosystems Engineering
Continuing in the lab as a joint BS-MS student
 09/2023–07/2025
Justin Pecora
Biosystems Engineering
DDS, University of Michigan School of Dentistry, MI
 09/2023–04/2025
Aarham Wasit Khan
Computer Science; Mathematics
Software Engineer, Meta HQ, CA
 05/2023–04/2025
Siddhartha Bhattacharya Computer Science 05/2024–04/2025
Mateja Milicevic
Computational Data Science
Continued in the lab as a PhD student
 10/2023–07/2024
Praneeth Dattagupta Biosystems Engineering 05/2023–12/2023
Christopher (CJ) Buchta Biosystems Engineering 05/2023–07/2023
MeiLi Papa
Biosystems Engineering
Continued in the lab as a joint BS-MS student
 05/2023–07/2023