Office of Student Life

Buckeye Leadership Fellows Program

Sahiti Tamirisakandala

Post-undergraduate Experience: Chemical Engineering PhD student at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Location: Troy, New York

Hometown: Solon, OH

Cohort Year: 2021-2022

Degree(s): - Chemical Engineering 

- PhD (2026), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

OSU Involvement: OSU Inaayat-Team Manager, Research Aide in Professor Lisa Hall's lab, Front Desk Assistant at Telecommunications Network Center

Favorite Quote: "Human knowledge is never contained in one person. It grows from the relationships we create between each other and the world, and it is still never complete." -Paul Kalanithi Author of When Breathe Becomes Air