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Kaveri Thakoor, PhD
Kaveri Thakoor, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Ophthalmic Science (in Ophthalmology) in the Department of Ophthalmology at the Columbia University Irving Medical Center. Dr. Thakoor earned her Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from Columbia University in the City of New York as a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship recipient. Prior to that, she earned her B.S. with Honors in Chemistry from Stanford University and her M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Southern California. Dr. Thakoor worked for two years as a research staff member on the Earthquake Early Warning algorithm development team at the California Institute of Technology Seismological Laboratory before joining Columbia. She was awarded the 2022 Morton B. Friedman Memorial Prize for Doctoral Excellence by Columbia Engineering, and she received the 2022 Young Scientist Award for Graduate Students/Postdocs at the Northeast Bioengineering Conference.
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