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Nathan Zavanelli
Carnovale Award
Ph.D. Student, Bioengineering in Mechanical Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
Second Year ARCS Scholar

Nathan is a Bioengineering Ph.D. student at the Georgia Institute of Technology developing skin-like wearable electronics and sensors that seamlessly integrate with the human body and provide hospital diagnostics in a simple, minimally obtrusive platform. He obtained a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology and interned at the University of Pennsylvania, Rutgers University, Stryker Medical, and Huxley Medical prior to his graduate research. He has published 15 articles including a first-author work that received department best paper. Outside of the lab, Nathan is the former captain and coach of the Georgia Tech Triathlon team, where he finished #4 overall in the Southeastern Conference, won the Georgia state championship in the sprint distance, and finished #31 (male under-29) in the Ironman World Championships.