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Marc Dandin is an Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, where he has previously co-founded and led a start-up company in the medical diagnostics arena. He has worked as a technical specialist focused on intellectual property matters in law firms in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. His research and entrepreneurship efforts have garnered him several awards, including the University of Maryland Bioengineering department's Robert E. Fischell Fellowship and the inaugural Jimmy H. C. Lin Award for Entrepreneurship from the Electrical Engineering department. In recognition of his professional standing, he was elevated to Senior Member status by the IEEE in 2017. Dandin's research interests lie at the intersection of microsystems engineering, integrated circuit design, and biomedicine. His objective is twofold: to learn biology for the design of efficient and smarter artificial sensing and actuation systems, and to develop translational bioengineering approaches that enable novel diagnostics methods and therapies to address unmet needs in medicine.
Admission is extremely competitive with no strict GPA cut-offs; holistic review is used.