Our team

Selene Nanorobotics is a small team based in San Diego, bringing together students and early-career engineers from bioengineering, robotics, and computational science.

Leadership

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Babak Tousifar

Babak Tousifar

Founder & CEO

Bioengineer trained at Columbia University, with a research background spanning MEMS, microfluidics, and nanopore DNA sequencing before founding Selene.

Team & Partners

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Dr. Mona Mirzaei

Dr. Mona Mirzaei

Fractional Head, Microfabrication & System Integration

Fabrication engineer specializing in microfabrication techniques for advanced microsystems.

Dr. Varun Singh

Dr. Varun Singh

Clinical Partner, Endodontics (The Dental Specialists)

Practicing endodontist advising on clinical fit and procedure workflow.

Prof. Xin Tu

Prof. Xin Tu

Biostatistics Partner (UC San Diego)

Advises on study design and statistical analysis for Selene's preclinical data.

Scientific & Clinical Advisors

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Prof. Joseph Wang

Prof. Joseph Wang

Scientific Advisor, Nanorobotics

Distinguished Professor of NanoEngineering at UC San Diego and Director of the Center for Wearable Sensors; a pioneer of nanomachines for biomedical applications.

Prof. Martin Pumera

Prof. Martin Pumera

Scientific Advisor, Microrobotics

Professor at CEITEC Brno and an ERC awardee researching chemically powered micro- and nanomachines.

Prof. Mahmoud Torabinejad

Prof. Mahmoud Torabinejad

Clinical Advisor, Endodontics

"This technology has the potential to fundamentally change endodontic treatment by reaching areas conventional methods cannot."

Prof. Garth James

Prof. Garth James

Biofilm Research Partner (Montana State University, Center for Biofilm Engineering)

Biofilm researcher at Montana State University's Center for Biofilm Engineering.

Dr. Alan Law

Dr. Alan Law

Clinical Pilot Partner (The Dental Specialists)

Supports in-practice evaluation of Selene's device at The Dental Specialists.

Strategic, Regulatory & Product Advisors

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Dr. Jay Kunin

Dr. Jay Kunin

Strategic Advisor, Commercialization & Fundraising (The Brink SBDC)

Serial entrepreneur and startup mentor who has founded or co-founded six companies, including Fortune 500 exits.

Patricia Lady

Patricia Lady

Strategic Advisor, Finance & Fundraising (The Brink SBDC)

Advises CEOs on raising capital, financial strategy, and IPO readiness.

Dr. Alan Moazzam

Dr. Alan Moazzam

Clinical Trial & IRB Advisor (UC San Diego)

Academic hospitalist at UC San Diego Health focused on medical commercialization and entrepreneurship.

Dr. Frank Yang

Dr. Frank Yang

Legal Counsel (Procopio)

IP partner at Procopio representing life sciences companies on patent counseling and due diligence.

Dr. Mehdi Kazemzadeh

Dr. Mehdi Kazemzadeh

Regulatory Advisor (MCRA)

Former FDA reviewer, now Director of Regulatory Affairs at MCRA, an IQVIA business.

Alan Donald

Alan Donald

Regulatory Advisor (Matrix Medical Consulting)

FDA regulatory strategist and expert witness for medical devices, combination products, and biologics.

Internship Program

Selene cultivates the best-in-class talent from every discipline, not just the obvious ones.

Summer 2026

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Hannah Fletcher

Hannah Fletcher

R&D Embedded Engineering & Sensing Intern

Electrical engineering student at UC San Diego, with product development experience at COR Medical Ventures and NASA's L'SPACE program.

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Rami Abukhater

R&D Computational Mapping & Signal Analysis Intern

UC San Diego data science student building probabilistic models for robot perception and navigation, spanning Bayesian inference, reinforcement learning, and SLAM.

Marco Lin

Marco Lin

R&D Prototype Development Intern

Bioengineering student at UC San Diego.

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Apoorva Khera

Operations & Project Coordination Intern

Bioengineering and bioinformatics student at UC San Diego's Alexandrov Lab, focused on oncology, genomics, and targeted therapeutics.

Vibhawari Ramakrishna Wusirika

Vibhawari Ramakrishna Wusirika

R&D Technical Summer Project Lead

MEng bioengineering student at UC San Diego specializing in medical device engineering, with a biotechnology background from VIT Vellore.