Faculty Profiles
Reem Khojah
Assistant Teaching Professor, Bioengineering
Shu Chien-Gene Lay Department of Bioengineering at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering
Engineering education; programmable cloud laboratory; remote organoid culture and analysis; educational digital twins
Reem Khojah is an Assistant Teaching Professor of Bioengineering at UC San Diego. Her research focuses on engineering education through the development of educational biodigital twins and the Programmable Cloud Laboratory to enhance workforce development in biomedical engineering. These innovations enable undergraduate students to remotely conduct organoid experiments, analyze imaging data, and participate in authentic laboratory research aligned with FAIR data principles and AI-driven experimentation.
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Khojah joined the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering as an Assistant Teaching Professor in 2022. Previously, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Irvine starting in 2021, and a postdoctoral research at UC Santa Cruz beginning in 2019. Khojah earned a PhD in bioengineering from UCLA, and a master's degree in chemical and biological engineering from King Abdullah University for Science and Technology.
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