Biosensing and biorobotics laboratory

ANDREW ALEGRIA

Graduate Student

PhD

University of Minnesota, Mechanical Engineering (2024)

MS

University of Minnesota, Mechanical Engineering (2020)

BS

University at Buffalo, Mechanical Engineering (2018)

University at Buffalo, Aerospace Engineering (2018)

Biosketch

Andrew received his M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the Biosensing and Biorobotics Laboratory at the University of Minnesota in 2020, and his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University at Buffalo in 2018. For his Ph.D., he is automating the microinjection of drosophila embryos via machine learning and computer vision algorithms, which he hopes to eventually apply to other microorganisms such as zebrafish and C. elegans.

Publications

Andrew Alegria*, Amey Joshi*, Benjamin Auch, Daryl M. Gohl, Suhasa B. Kodandaramaiah, (2020, April). Computer vision and machine learning algorithms for controlling an image-guided robotic microinjector. TAGC 2020. *Equal contribution

HOnors and awards

2018 University of Minnesota Graduate School DOVE Fellowship

2017 NASA National Space Grant Program Fellow

2016 CSTEP 10th Annual Research Symposium – Honorable Mention