Engineering Graduate Students Association (eGSA) at UCLA

UCLA’s eGSA student group represents the graduate students of the seven departments of the Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (HSSEAS). We host events for graduate students, work with the administration and strive to make the graduate experience productive, smooth, fruitful and fun.

Trinny Tat

Bioengineering
Tat is a third-year Ph.D. student in the Bioengineering Department. She helps to design portable bioelectronics for Parkinson’s disease monitoring as a member of Professor Jun Chen’s Wearable Bioelectronics Research Group. Tat is also a recipient of the National Defense Science and Engineering Fellowship and is involved on campus as the external VP in the Bioengineering Graduate Association. (Video recorded in 2022)

Lindsey Parsons

Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Parsons is a third-year Ph.D. student in the Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department. She is in Professor Carissa Eisler’s research group and studies nanophotonics and optoelectronics, mainly inorganic perovskite nanocrystals and their unique optical properties. She is involved in promoting access to science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education through multiple organizations on campus.

Yifan Gao

Civil and Environmental Engineering
Gao is a fourth-year Ph.D. student in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department. As a member of Professor Shaily Mahendra’s research group, she mainly studies fungal enzymatic catalysis in environmental applications. Gao is also active in various organizations and outreach activities to promote diversity in academia.

Shyandeep Das

Electrical and Computer Engineering
Das is a second-year master’s student in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. Advised by Professor Nader Sehatbaksh, he specializes in the field of computer systems architecture, and hardware/software co-design. He is also a board member of the ECE Graduate and Postdoc Society (ECEGAPS) and often collaborates with other student groups such as the Engineering Graduate Student Association (eGSA) to host events with the aim of bringing people together.

Maggie Fox

Materials Science and Engineering
Fox is a fifth-year Ph.D. student in the Materials Science and Engineering Department. She is in Interim Dean Bruce Dunn’s research group and her work focuses on non-planar and solid-state batteries, fast-charging cathode materials, and using sol-gel science to create insulating materials. Outside of the lab, Fox has done work for the Society of Women Engineers and has also started a program titled Women in STEM: Breaking Barriers, which helps historically excluded groups with personal and professional development.

Zachary Wong

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Wong is a first-year Ph.D. student in the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department. Advised by Professor Timothy Fisher, he received a 2022 NASA Space Technology Graduate Research Opportunities grant for his research on oscillating heat pipes, which disperse heat to regulate system temperatures.