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👏Congratulations to Shine from Mehdi Saligane's ReaLLMASIC Lab, recently selected a Voyager Scholar:

When Shine Gerkariah received news of his selection as a Voyager Scholar, his immediate instinct was to thank the friends who had encouraged him to apply.

“They made me feel like trying was something worth doing, even when I had no idea where it might lead,” he said.

That encouragement reflects what Gerkariah values most about his experience at Brown: the opportunity to explore his interests while helping others feel supported and included.

In Brown’s School of Engineering, he works in the ReALLMASIC Lab, where he uses signal processing to support bioinstrumentation design. He also serves as an introductory biology teaching assistant, a gender and sexuality peer counselor and president of the Program in Liberal Medical Education’s First Generation Underrepresented in Research in Medicine group.

“A lot of what I love about Brown ultimately comes back to people,” Gerkariah said. “I love building community, helping others feel like they belong and getting excited alongside other people about the things they care about.”

That interest in how people experience emerging technologies also shaped Gerkariah’s work as an AI governance and risk intern at VOCEL, a Chicago nonprofit serving K-12 students and families, where he researched AI policies in K–12 education.

As a Voyager Scholar, Gerkariah hopes to bring together his interests in healthcare, technology, research and policy to shape how AI is used in medicine.

“I want to help build systems that are powerful and innovative while also making people feel safe, respected and confident in the way those systems are being used,” he said. by @brownengineering

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Engineering wins big at @brownuresearch Research’s Technology Innovations 4th annual Innovation Showcase! Anita Shukla took home Inventor of the Year, Lilac Biosciences was the Start-up of the Year, and Nora Ayanian’s drones were a finalist for Innovation of the Year. Kareen Coulombe and Shukla were also recognized for top innovation pitches. Alumna Sangeeta Bhatia sat with Provost Frank Doyle for a keynote Q&A to kickoff the evening, and engineering faculty and students lined the walls of the Providence CIC with technology and science almost ready for market. Inventor of the Year award - Anita Shukla by @brownengineering

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Internal Combustion category 3rd place! 🥉🏎️

On a shortened day at the Toronto Shootout yesterday, the racing was close all morning, but the @brownformularacing car was on the podium in the end.

This marks the retirement of the 2026 car, but the 2027 build season officially opens today. taken in Brechin Motorsports park by @brownengineering

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Brown’s Engineering Career and Internship Fair, coordinated by the @tischcareercenter is underway in Hazeltine Commons this afternoon, bringing ~30 engineering and tech-centric companies onto campus. Undergraduate and graduate students are encouraged to attend! by @brownengineering

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Cheers to Red Maple (from the lab of Anita Shukla) and TEEM Therapeutics (from the lab of Kareen Coulombe) on their $5k grab for 2nd and 3rd places at Brown Technology Innovations’ Brown Invents Startup Challenge. The pre-Innovation Showcase pitch competition during #RhodeIslandStartupWeek also included Nereus (from the lab of Monica Martinez Wilhelmus) as 3 of the 7 early-formed companies who presented to a panel of VCs tonight. by @brownengineering

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Voting is open until Sept. 24 for Brown Technology Innovation's Innovation of the Year. Two faculty from the School of Engineering are competing. https://bit.ly/26IOY
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The fourth annual Innovation@Brown Showcase is 10/15. Ten contenders for Innovation of the Year will be narrowed to the top three vote getters, who will pitch live during the event with an ultimate winner being decided by a live audience vote at the Showcase. by @brownengineering

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Engineering was chillin' with the dean this afternoon at the annual Ice Cream Welcome Social. Engineering students at all levels were invited to grab a treat from the ice cream truck. 🍦 by @brownengineering

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Hibbitt Postdoctoral Fellow Jiwon Kim was selected as a ⭐2026 Rising Stars Women in Engineering⭐ by the Asian Deans’ Forum. This workshop was organized by leading engineering schools in the Asia Pacific Region, including the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, The University of New South Wales, Seoul National University, National University of Singapore, National Taiwan University, The University of Tokyo, and Tsinghua University. First conceived in 2018, the workshop aims to bring together young women professionals in engineering disciplines from around the world. This includes scholars, researchers, and engineers who are exploring or advancing careers in academia. The workshop facilitates scientific and career-oriented discussions, with a focus on empowering the next generation of women academic leaders in Asia and beyond.
Kim is currently a Postdoctoral Research Associate with Prof. Ian Wong's group in the School of Engineering at Brown University. Her scientific interests are directed at how cells sense and generate mechanical forces in the context of their physical microenvironment. In particular, she investigates how groups of cells coordinate their migration to orbit or invade in response to matrix architecture. Kim previously received her Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology and was recently recognized as a 2025 MIT Rising Star in Mechanical Engineering. Jiwon Kim was selected as a 2026 Women in Engineering Rising Star by the Asian Deans Forum. She was honored in Hong Kong Sept. 13-15, 2026. by @brownengineering

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Welcome to the new fall semester 2026! 🙌 by @brownengineering

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The School of Engineering brought staff and faculty together Thursday for its annual gathering and to celebrate staff members who had provided exceptional service and performance during the 2025-26 academic year. Congratulations and thank you to Grants and Contracts Manager Kelly da Ponte and Lead Administrative Coordinator Agnes Madriaga! by @brownengineering

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Summer internships and research experiences took our Brown engineers around the globe. 🌎 See how members of the Classes of ’27 and ’28 spent their summer building, researching, and engineering their futures at the 🔗 in our bio! by @brownengineering

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Congratulations to Jimmy Lee, Ntsika Mtwa, and Eliza Tabachnik - who have each been awarded scholarships from @taubetapiofficial! Read more about these three seniors at the link in our bio. by @brownengineering

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