Executive Committee (EC)

Kriti is a 6th year Ph.D. candidate in the Electrical Engineering department on East Bank. Her research is in nanotechnology focusing on how the interaction of nanostructures with light changes based on their morphology. She is an international student from India and has also worked at IBM for three years. Kriti's hobbies are centered around experiencing different cultures through languages, food, music or travel.

Deepak is a Ph.D. Candidate in Plant Pathology. He received his Bachelors and Masters' degrees in Industrial Biotechnology from India, and is working towards becoming an agriculture policymaker. He is currently studying biological control potentials of native Minnesotan fungi on the Soybean Cyst Nematodes. He enjoys camping in the woods, cooking, baking, and watching TV in his free time.

Scott defines himself as "A Texan adrift in the Great White North", and that is saying a lot. He is a PhD student in Applied Economics and enjoys baking desserts for our EC meeting breakfasts.

Chelsea is a PhD student in the Department of Geography, Environment and Society (GES) and a Graduate Trainee in the Minnesota Population Center (MPC). Outside of the books, she is a full-time ballerina, artist, and life-researcher.

Mattea is a first year PhD student in the Bioinformatics and Computational Biology program. She studies the evolution of human and primate genomes and how it shaped their gut microbiome. Outside the lab she likes to swim, bike, and bake.

Anushree is a 4th year Ph.D. candidate in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department. Her research is in harnessing renewable energy to enhance environmental sustainability. She received her Bachelors in Electrical Engineering from India and has three years of work experience as a Senior Software Developer. She enjoys traveling, yoga, painting and music in her free time.

Kelly is a fourth-year student in the Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Biophysics department. Her hobbies are mostly reading and spending time with her cat, but she also LOVES going camping in the Minnesota summer. This school year she is looking forward to (hopefully!) churning out some good research and going to see more women's hockey games.

Dr. Sally Gregory Kohlstedt is Professor of the History of Science (CSE), where she studies and teaches the dynamics of scientific communities in cultural context. Her free time is spent on the North Shore and with her Airedale, Ginger.

Drew is a PhD candidate in Food Science and this is his second year being involved in COGS EC. In this own words "I believe being involved with the governance and policies of the University and helping change how things work is an important part of being a graduate student and I encourage others to become involved as well. "

Pooja is a first year doctoral student in the department of Medicinal Chemistry. She has a Masters degree from Creighton University, Nebraska.

She is an international student, from Mumbai, India and has been in the states for about 3 years now.

Nishank is a Ph.D. student in Public Affairs at the Humphrey School, with a focus on Early Childhood Education, currently working at the Human Capital Research Collaborative (HCRC). He is from India, and in his free time, he likes to go on bike rides or watch Bollywood movies.