People

Leadership Board

Miguel Santos, Ph.D

• Director of Food Safety and Quality Assurance (Once Upon a Farm) and Principal Consultant and Owner (Verdian Consulting LLC)
• Vice Chair

• Once Upon a Farm

Arnab Sarkar

• Senior Director of Global R&D
• PepsiCo

• PepsiCo

Kathryn Tarver

• Mechanical Systems Engineer
• Monarch Tractor

• Monarch Tractor

Daniel Voit

• Chief Executive Officer
• Board Chair
• Blentech Corporation

• https://blentech.com/
• LinkedIn Profile

Postdoctoral

Rajkishan Arikapudi, Ph.D

• Postdoctoral Scholar
• Biological and Agricultural Engineering

• rarikapudi@ucdavis.edu

Shu Cai, Ph.D

• Postdoctoral Scholar
• Biological and Agricultural Engineering

• shucai@ucdavis.edu

Zhenghao Fei, Ph.D

• Postdoctoral Scholar
• Biological and Agricultural Engineering

• zfei@ucdavis.edu

Tyler John Barzee, Ph.D

• Postdoctoral Scholar
• Biological and Agricultural Engineering

• tjbarzee@ucdavis.edu

Jay Lee Tuil, Ph.D

• Postdoctoral Scholar
• Biological and Agricultural Engineering

• jltuil@ucdavis.edu

Peixin Tang, Ph.D

• Postdoctoral Scholar
• Biological and Agricultural Engineering

• pxtang@ucdavis.edu

Xin Zhang, Ph.D

• Postdoctoral Scholar
• Biological and Agricultural Engineering

• xzxzhang@ucdavis.edu

Graduate Student

Nadya Alexander Sanchez

• Graduate Student
• Biological and Agricultural Engineering

• nadyaa@ucdavis.edu

Benjamin Michael Arbaugh

• Graduate Student Researcher
• Biological and Agricultural Engineering

• bmarbaugh@ucdavis.edu

Rajkishan Arikapudi

• Graduate Student Researcher
• Biological and Agricultural Engineering

• rarikapudi@ucdavis.edu

Tyler John Barzee

• Graduate Student Researcher and Teaching Assistant
• Biological and Agricultural Engineering

• tjbarzee@ucdavis.edu

Sherry Blunk

• Graduate Student
• Biological and Agricultural Engineering

• slblunk@ucdavis.edu

Nicolas Buxbaum

• Graduate Student
• Biological and Agricultural Engineering

• nrbuxbaum@ucdavis.edu

Lin Cao

• Graduate Student Researcher
• Biological and Agricultural Engineering

• lncao@ucdavis.edu

Chang Chen

• Graduate Student Researcher
• Biological and Agricultural Engineering

• cgchen@ucdavis.edu

Si Chen

• Graduate Student Researcher
• Biological and Agricultural Engineering

• ssichen@ucdavis.edu

Yike Chen

• Teaching Assistant
• Biological and Agricultural Engineering

• ycpchen@ucdavis.edu

Allan Chio

• Graduate Student Researcher
• Biological and Agricultural Engineering

• achio@ucdavis.edu

Amber Chou

• Teaching Assistant
• Biological and Agricultural Engineering

• hchou@ucdavis.edu

Guilherme de Moura Araujo

• Graduate Student
• Biological and Agricultural Engineering

• gdemoura@ucdavis.edu

Alice Dien

• Graduate Student
• Biological and Agricultural Engineering

• adien@ucdavis.edu

Kelley Drechsler

• Graduate Student
• Biological and Agricultural Engineering

• kmdrechsler@ucdavis.edu

Abdolhossein (Hossein) Edalati

• Graduate Student Researcher
• Biological and Agricultural Engineering

• ahedalati@ucdavis.edu

Lucia Felix Palomares

• Graduate Student Researcher
• Biological and Agricultural Engineering

• lfelix@ucdavis.edu

Daniel J. Fust

• Teaching Assistant
• Biological and Agricultural Engineering

• djfust@ucdavis.edu

Alex Ogino Hitomi

• Graduate Student Researcher
• Biological and Agricultural Engineering

• aohitomi@ucdavis.edu

Kevin Hudnall

• Graduate Student Researcher and Teaching Assistant
• Biological and Agricultural Engineering

• kahudnall@ucdavis.edu

Berta Lascuevas Laguna

• Graduate Student
• Biological and Agricultural Engineering

• blascuevaslaguna@ucdavis.edu

Kaiyan Li

• Graduate Student Researcher
• Biological and Agricultural Engineering

• kkyli@ucdavis.edu

Jiayong (Kary) Liang

• Teaching Assistant
• Biological and Agricultural Engineering

• jiyliang@ucdavis.edu

Michael Long

• Graduate Student Researcher
• Biological and Agricultural Engineering

• baelong@ucdavis.edu