Post by Wiktoria Pawlak

I can officially call myself an engineer now. 🥳 Yesterday, I graduated from University of California, Berkeley with a UC Berkeley Master of Engineering in Bioengineering. This year was full of learning, humility, building, and growth. Moving across the ocean to continue building things I care about most - biology and AI. Among many projects, conferences, CellLense demos, publications, and the Forbes 26 for 2026 recognition, a major part of the year was my bioengineering capstone project, which is now moving through the UC Berkeley IP process. More to share when it is appropriate to disclose. Most of all, I’m grateful for the people I met along the way: my capstone advisor Prof. Syed Hossainy, Prof. Kevin Healy, and my irreplaceable and unstoppable capstone team, Allison Lee and Juan Bejarano, without whom we would not have made it this far. One thing that stayed with me from Sandra Rivera’s commencement speech was the reminder that nobody gets here alone. Special thanks as well to those who supported me throughout the year and helped me grow, reflect, fail, learn, and rise again - “Though I have fallen, I will arise.” - Amma Omenaa Mensah and Rafał Brzoska who believed in me through Rafał Brzoska Foundation, my mentor Tomek Plata, Teodor Buchner, and everyone else who helped me build things, but also build myself along the way. I will take my time to reflect, put my efforts into what I'm really passionate about so stay tuned. In the meantime a few things todo, patents, papers, Y Combinator Startup School, Merge Grant, Edge City, I will be also in TECH WEEK by a16z in NYC. Go Bears! 🐻

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