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Our Team
Our 2024-25 board and fellows are all undergraduates in engineering and technology majors at Yale. They help decide areas of focus and plan events each year. We are always happy to chat!
Use the menu below to help navigate between our team members.
Executive Leadership
Halyn McKenzie
Co-President
Halyn is a senior double-majoring in chemical engineering and mechanical engineering. She currently is an engineering trainee at NASA's Johnson Space Center in the Propulsion and Power Division. In the future, she wants to continue her work at NASA in the engineering directorate. She hopes to become a full-time professional engineer working on the Artemis missions to send the first woman and person of color to the moon-- and hopefully to Mars as well! In her free time she loves visiting national parks and snuggling with her cat, Stevie.
Nicole Massoumi
Co-President
Nicole is a senior majoring in biomedical engineering. She spent the summer conducting research in advanced breast cancer, looking at targeted therapies in combination with immunotherapy and is excited to continue similar research at Yale. In the future she hopes to become a Ph.D. in the field of molecular bioengineering and cancer research. In her free time she enjoys reading, hanging out with friends and running (she is aiming for a marathon in 2024!). Nicole is excited for her junior year and diving into to more major specific classes.
Anne-Amélie Campant
Senior Advisor
Anne-Amélie is a senior majoring in Chemical Engineering with a certificate in Energy Studies. She has conducted research in artificial photosynthesis at the Brudvig Lab and is now joining a membrane separations group to work at the water-energy nexus. This summer, Anne-Amélie interned at a clean-tech start-up, where she developed gas separation membranes for carbon capture. She hopes to pursue a career at the intersection between engineering for sustainability and global energy policymaking. She is Vice President of Yale European Horizons and helps organize the Yale Clean Energy Conference. Anne-Amélie loves to play the harp and learn new languages, Spanish being her next! She is excited to continue developing Yale's Solar Project this year, where the team is building the first solar charging station on campus.
Corporate Relations & Careers
Ava Canney
Professional Development Chair
Ava is a junior majoring in chemical engineering. On campus she is involved in An Cumann Éireannach, SWE, ChemE Car, and STM Choir. Alongside her extracurriculars she also works as a Recruitment Coordinator at the admissions office. In the future Ava would like to be an engineer at a pharmaceutical company that focuses on rare diseases. While completing an internship at DuPont last summer Ava got the opportunity to work on safety briefs for new projects being implemented in the plant. In her free time she can be found on coffee dates with friends!
Sophia Lahik
Professional Development Chair
Sophia is a junior majoring in biomedical engineering with a concentration in biomechanics. She is an Instructor and Board member for the Taekwondo Team, sings for Proof of the Pudding, does research in the Wiznia Lab, and is a Business Officer for the Yale African Innovation Symposium happening in the Spring. The coolest engineering project she's worked on has been during this summer working on developing an improved reamer to be used in core decompression surgeries. This past summer has taught her that she has a passion for medical device design and hopes to pursue a career in this field or similar technology development. For fun, Sophia loves social dancing, practicing martial arts, and dragging her friends to new cafes and brunch spots.
Kasvi Singh
Professional Development Chair
Kasvi is a junior studying electrical engineering and computer science. She is interested in the intersection of engineering and healthcare and hopes to pursue a career developing medical technology. However, this summer, she was an electrical engineering intern at startup developing flying electric cars! Outside of SWE, you can find Kasvi giving tours showcasing the beautiful engineering department or working within Pauli Murray. In her free time, she loves singing, tinkering in the CIED, cooking and learning new languages.
Kawthar Al Janabi
Conference Chair
Kawthar is a Junior majoring in Chemical Engineering. She is interested in the cosmetics and sustainable energy sectors. She spent the summer working at an energy company in Argentina called Pan American Energy. She is also a fellow for L'Oréal Cosmetics. At school, she is involved in the Branford College Council as co-president. Outside of classes, you can catch her practicing with her Sketch Comedy group, The Good Show!!
Hailley Siswanto
Professional Development Fellow
Hailley is a sophomore in Berkeley College planning to major in electrical engineering and computer science. She is interested in quantum computing research and hopes to pursue that during her time at Yale and eventually pursue a PhD in a relevant field. Outside of the classroom and lab, she loves lifting weights, cycling, cooking, and traveling.
Abby Matsuyasu
Professional Development Fellow
Abby is a sophomore majoring in biomedical engineering in Saybrook. She spent the summer working in the Integrative Cardiac Biomechanics Lab researching cardiac kinetics and muscle physiology by adding fatty acids to the culture media to develop a more mature and physiologically accurate engineered heart tissue model as adult human cardiomyocytes use fatty acids, instead of glucose, as their primary metabolic substrate. Abby hopes to continue similar research projects and pursue a PhD in the biomechanics field. Outside of the lab, Abby likes to run, hang out with friends on cross campus, and teach New Haven elementary schoolers some science!
Community & Social Impact
Amanda O'Donnell
Community Development Chair (Internal)
Amanda is a junior majoring in biomedical engineering on the pre-med track. She competes on the Yale Varsity Fencing Team and is involved in Yale Women's Athletic Council, Haven Free Clinic, and Yale Harvest. She is currently conducting research in Dr. Wiznia's lab involving a device that helps people regain hand function after stroke. In the future, she hopes to become a physician, biomedical engineer, or combination of both. In her free time, she enjoys hiking, going on walks and runs, and hanging out with friends.
Amadie Gajanaike
Community Development Chair (Internal)
Amadie is an international student from Sri Lanka and junior majoring in Electrical Engineering. She has worked as an instructor for Yale Young Global Scholars and on campus, she engages in New Haven public service and social justice as part of the Dwight Hall Executive Committee. In her free time, Amadie paints for the Yale Visual Artists Collective and has interned for one of the leading telecommunications providers in Sri Lanka: SLT Mobitel. She hopes to become a digital systems engineer in game development alongside character design!
Jessi Avila-Shah
Community Development Chair (External)
Jessi is a senior majoring in biomedical engineering. She just finished participating in the Yale Biomedical Engineering Summer Clinical Immersion Program on the Skin Biopsy Device track. In the future, Jessi hopes to continue her engineering education and work in the biotechnology industry doing medical device design. Jessi hopes to one day contribute to the development of cardiac assist devices! In her free time, Jessi enjoys being a member of the Varsity Sailing Team, President of the Women's Leadership Initiative, and a swim lessons volunteer.
Asavari Saigal
Community Development Chair (External)
Asavari is a Mechanical Engineering and Architecture double major who wants to work in civil/structural engineering (the waffling on this decision is constant and unending). She is currently working as a bridge engineering liaison for a software development project to improve structural engineering programs. In her greatest dreams, she imagines a world where beam seats get automatically aligned with the beams themselves.
Shahribonu (Sherrie) Azamatova
Mentorship Chair
Shahribonu is majoring in Chemical Engineering and Certificate in Energy Studies. She is involved in ChemE Car on campus and wants to continue doing engineering in the future. In her free time she likes writing poems and taking walks in parks.
Sofia (Sofi) Martinez Lozoya
Community Development Fellow
Sofi is a sophomore majoring in biomedical engineering. This past summer, she completed the First Year Summer Research Fellowship and worked at the Rodriguez Lab on deep tissue imaging in the mouse brain. In the future, she hopes to attend graduate school and continue working on research. On what exactly? She's still deciding! Sofi hopes to shift to industry work after her education, perhaps in bionanotechnology! In her free time, she loves going to the gym, trying new foods with friends, baking, watching Studio Ghibli films (the best one is "The Wind Rises"), and taking her dog Suki on hiking trails.
Operations & Publicity
Ruby Lee
Treasurer
Ruby is a sophomore double-majoring in biomedical engineering and economics. She spent this summer researching aortic aneurysm in aged mice models in Humphrey Lab at Yale. On campus, she enjoys looking into tech companies as part of the Yale Student Investment Group and loves giving tours to prospective students visiting Yale. Ruby is passionate about how much impact biotech breakthroughs can have in people's lives and is excited to pursue a career in the biotech sphere. In her free time, she loves to run, travel, drink boba, and send funny reels to her friends.
Avery Lee
Media Chair
Avery is a senior majoring in biomedical engineering. She is a member of the Yale Varsity Women's Basketball team and is the president of Yale Asian Student Athletes Affinity Group. She spent the summer working with the Las Vegas Raiders Football Team as an operations intern. In the future, she hopes to work in sports medicine within the professional sports industry, including injury prevention, rehabilitation, and medical devices. In her free time, she enjoys going to the beach, watching sunsets, and hanging out with her golden doodle, Franklin.
Riya Singh
Media Chair
Riya is a sophomore majoring in Applied Mathematics. This past summer she interned under the Biostatistics department of the National Institute of Health in Iowa City, doing research regarding genetic algorithms as a proxy for electrodermal activity. At Yale, she is involved with the Nepali Students Society and the Yale Ancient Pharmacology Program. In the future, she hopes to work as a Data Analyst in the public health sector! During her free time you can find her brushing up on her German, traveling, or hanging out with friends!
Teresa Nguyen
Media Fellow
Teresa is a sophomore majoring in statistics and data science, with plans to pursue a computer science certificate and a keen interest in engineering. Last summer, she interned as a software engineer at Medtronic, where she focused on building chatbots, developing back-end tools for log analysis, and creating data dashboards for surgical robotics. Currently, she is a software engineer co-op at Medtronic and a tutor for ENAS 130. In her free time, she enjoys delving into mystery novels, playing with her three dogs, and exploring a wide range of random topics.
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