Business Development Fellows

Victor Chiu

  • Business Development Fellow
Victor Chiu is a Ph.D. candidate in Prof. Randy Carney's lab, located in the department of biomedical engineering. His research interests involve studying nanoparticles, spectroscopy, microfluidics and disease diagnostics.

Hamid Jafarbiglu

  • Business Development Fellow
Hamid Jafarbiglu grew up in a farming village, and his bachelor's and master's degrees at the University of Tehran focused on agricultural machinery and robotics. He completed his UC Davis Ph.D. in September 2023. His research primarily centered around drone-based aerial image analysis, data mining and machine learning.

Sergio A. Valbuena

  • Business Development Fellow
Sergio Valbuena is a dedicated postdoctoral scholar affiliated with the Tahoe Environmental Research Center at UC Davis. His academic journey has been shaped by the desire to understand the complex interplay between physical processes, water quality and ecology in aquatic environments.

Shu Yu

  • Business Development Fellow
Shu Yu received her Ph.D. in horticulture and agronomy from UC Davis in 2019 and is today a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Plant Sciences. Her research has focuses on investigating carotenoid metabolism and enhancing provitamin A accumulation in major cereal crops using mutation breeding and genome-editing techniques.