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Our Team
Our 2026-27 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
Sofia Martinez Lozoya
Co-President
Sofi is a senior from Ypsilanti, Michigan, majoring in Biomedical Engineering with a concentration in Biomechanics. She is excited to find engineering solutions to clinical problems, and applies her passion for healthcare and mathematics to contribute to medical device development and computational physiological systems modeling for preventative treatment planning. She is an active member of Ballet Folklórico Mexicano de Yale, and works as a Spanish tutor for the Center of Language Study. Outside of academics, Sofi loves to bake for her friends, rank local coffee spots, and getting off at random MTA train stops for the sake of exploration.
Lauren Scott
Co-President
Lauren is a junior from Miami, Florida, majoring in Mechanical Engineering. She combines her love for engineering and design through the intersection of architecture and engineering and the world of product design. Lauren is an active member of Yaledancers and loves to volunteer with DEMOS. Outside of academics, Lauren also enjoys cooking and exploring/rating new restaurants on Beli, interior design, and going to the beach when New Haven weather permits.
Abby Matsuyasu
Senior Advisor
Abby is a senior from Newton, Massachusetts, majoring in Biomedical Engineering. She works on developing nanoparticle nucleic acid delivery systems for cardiac applications. To that end, she has also spent lots of time researching cardiac muscle physiology using tissue engineering and biomechanical analysis. Abby also volunteers with DEMOS, works in the Saybrook office, and leads STEM tours with the admissions office. Outside of class and lab, Abby loves being outside whether she is going on a run, walking to Elena's, or hiking. Abby loves to travel and listen to live music with her friends.
Corporate Relations & Careers
Ellie Tillman-Schwartz
Conference Chair
Ellie is a junior from Weston, Massachusetts, majoring in Biomedical Engineering. She's most passionate about the development of translational medical devices, with a specific interest in the surgical robotics industry. Outside of classes, Ellie also can be found playing on the Yale Women's Rugby team, conducting engineering and business research in the Wiznia lab, working the BK buttery, practicing the cello, reading, running, cooking/baking, and attending live music concerts.
YuLin Zhen
Professional Development Co-Chair
YuLin is a senior from New York City, majoring in chemical engineering. She is developing and optimizing a more sustainable hydrodealkylation method using nitroarenes in an organic chemistry lab. YuLin is particularly interested in applying her work to industries like personal care and food science. Outside the classroom, she builds autonomous vehicles powered by chemical reactions, photographs for the Yale Daily News, and experiments with making cute ceramics in the pottery studio.
Ruomei Yu
Professional Development Fellow
Ruomei (Romio) is a sophomore from Beijing, China, majoring in Biomedical Engineering. She is especially interested in women’s health and loves exploring how biology, engineering, and entrepreneurship can come together to solve problems that have historically been overlooked. At Yale, she is an active member of Yale iGEM, where she works on synthetic biology research, and the Yale Women’s Leadership Initiative, where she builds partnerships with organizations beyond Yale. She is also the founder of Yale BioBridge, which brings students together with leaders across biotechnology, medicine, and entrepreneurship. Outside of academics, Romio loves fashion and art, weightlifting, exploring new restaurants, and raiding her mother’s closet for vintage finds. Her ideal afternoon probably involves a good workout, an unnecessarily long café conversation, and a sweet treat from tous les jours.
Ava Cummings
Professional Development Fellow
Ava is a sophomore from Raleigh, North Carolina majoring in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. She enjoys being involved in biotech and brain-computer interface research. On campus, Ava is a vocalist, guitar, and mandolin player for Tangled Up in Blue, loves to play on the field with C1 Women's Club soccer, and can commonly be found hanging out at the Native American Cultural Center. Ava also enjoys reading (big fan of sci-fi!), beadwork, and watercolor.
Community & Social Impact
Sundeep Kaur
Mentorship Co-Chair
Sundeep is a senior from Queens, New York, majoring in Chemical Engineering and pursuing a Certificate in Collections: Objects, Research, Society. Throughout her time at Yale, she has been heavily involved in ChemE Car and AIChE and has developed interests in energy and the intersection of engineering, technology, and business. As she approaches graduation, she is excited to explore where her technical and analytical background will take her next. Outside of academics, Sundeep enjoys reading, art history, and going on boba runs with friends.
Asavari Singh Saigal
Mentorship Co-Chair
Asavari is a senior from Delhi, majoring in Mechanical Engineering who wants to work in the structural field. She is passionate about architecture and human centric design, and aims to bring those principles into all of her projects. In her greatest dreams, she imagines a world where she doesn't have to manually align beam seats to the actual beams. In her free time, Asavari enjoys speculative fiction and theatre.
Audrey Kim
Mentorship Fellow
Audrey is a sophomore from Orange County, California studying Biomedical Engineering. She is passionate about looking at the intersection between economics and engineering and finding ways to drive innovation through finance and entrepreneurship. Audrey is currently a researcher in the Saltzman Lab at Yale, and is a member of the Yale Cheer team and the Global Strategy Consulting Group. In her free time, she enjoys rooting for the Los Angeles Rams and grabbing coffee from New Haven cafes with her friends.
Ella Arroyo
Community Development Co-Chair
Ella is a junior in Branford College from Skaneateles, New York, majoring in environmental engineering. She is focusing on freshwater quality through watershed monitoring and desalination efforts, and has interests in air quality preservation. Some of her hobbies include running, watching movies, knitting, playing board games, and going to concerts. She's looking forward to seeing her SWE friends this year!
Makena Senzon
Community Development Co-Chair
Makena is a junior from Jupiter, Florida, majoring in chemical engineering with a certificate in food, agriculture, and climate change. She loves considering how our built world interact with the natural world and does research in innovative materials for sustainable future (with experience in water treatment, solar cells, and plastic degradation). Beyond engineering, Makena is passionate about writing and storytelling. Hence, she hopes to pursue a career that involves intertwines science with journalism, communication, and/or education. When she is not writing or conducting experiments, she may be found working at the Yale farm, thinking about her next outdoor adventure, or reading books across genres.
Megan Chan
Community Development Fellow
Megan is a sophomore from Long Island, New York, majoring in Chemical Engineering. She is especially interested in renewable energy and wastewater treatment and is involved with ChemE Car and Women in Chemistry on campus. Outside of class, you can usually find Megan skating at Ingalls Rink with YCFSC, playing tennis with friends, 3D printing at the CEID, walking to East Rock, or trying cute dessert shops around New Haven.
Rachel Yoon
Community Development Fellow
Rachel is a sophomore from Orange County, California, majoring in Chemical Engineering with an Energy Studies certificate. On campus, Rachel conducts research on PFAS adsorption, works as a Campus Community Educator (CCE), and is involved in the startup space as a prospective entrepreneur. She has published two children's books on Amazon, and is looking to come out with a coloring book in the next year. Rachel is deeply passionate about uncovering systemic challenges in physical infrastructure, and even has a YouTube channel (The Engineering Cookie) all about it!
Operations & Publicity
Maria Drabkin
Treasurer
Maria is a junior from Cleveland, Ohio, majoring in Mechanical Engineering. Her primary engineering interests are in medical device design, and she spent the summer abroad in London researching a needle-bending device for vocal cord injection surgery. She is involved with Y-AID, Dr. Wiznia's patient-controlled medication dispenser lab, the Yale Scientific Magazine, and the Yale Ukraine House. Outside of academics, Maria also loves to draw, try out new cafes, bake many different types of cookie recipes, and take long walks around campus.
Merliya Jean
Treasury Fellow
Merliya is a junior from Brooklyn, New York, majoring in Biomedical Engineering. She is passionate about the intersection of engineering and medicine and hopes to become a physician in the future. At Yale, Merliya is involved in her college as the former Stiles buttery manager as well as being a member of the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE). Off campus she volunteers at Yale New Haven Health, where she enjoys helping out the clinical engineering department and connecting with other students in STEM. Outside of academics, she enjoys cooking, traveling, reading, and escape rooms!
Rachel Mak
Media Fellow
Rachel is a junior from New York City majoring in biomedical engineering. Outside of the classroom, she enjoys playing volleyball with the women's club team, photography, and side-questing with friends.
Aliya Patel
Media Fellow
Aliya is a sophomore from Cypress, Texas majoring in Biomedical Engineering and still exploring where this diverse field will take her. On campus she is a part of Kasama and enjoys doing mini projects in the CEID. She loves mint chocolate chip ice cream, fostering animals, and thrifting.
Hildana Kassa
Media Fellow
Hildana is a Sophomore majoring in Biomedical Engineering from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. She aims to use her technical skills from engineering with her passion in Global health to improve health outcomes through innovation. In campus, she is involved in the Yale African innovation Symposium and the National Society of Black Engineers. She is also an event organizer at the Yale Eritrean Ethiopian student association and dances in DESTA! Outside of classes, Hildana enjoys going on walks, reading books ad hanging out with her friends!
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