When Jingyi Wu first arrived at Carnegie Mellon, he was an eager first-year student set on pursuing a bachelor’s degree in physics. Little did he know that his academic career at CMU would span nearly 10 years and include not one but three degrees.
“I chose to come here for undergrad because I knew that it would be academically challenging,” Wu said. “During my junior year, I started to think about what to do in the future and realized that I wanted to do something that felt more connected to people’s lives. That’s when I found Jana Kainerstorfer’s biophotonics course. It blended physics and biomedical science, which was exactly what I was looking for.”
After receiving his B.S. from the Mellon College of Science (MCS), Wu made the switch to the College of Engineering where he received an M.Sc. and Ph.D. in biomedical engineering under the mentorship of Kainerstorfer, professor of biomedical engineering.
While his time as a CMU student is coming to a close, Wu’s decade-long journey traversed multiple departments, driven by work that required both an interdisciplinary and entrepreneurial approach. His graduate research specifically focused on improving maternal and fetal health during childbirth by developing an algorithm to measure fetal oxygen saturation during labor and delivery.
