David Sotto

I was born and raised in Miami, Fl to two Cuban parents and came to Georgia Tech in 2006. I graduated in May 2009 with a bachelors in Biomedical Engineering. The sumer immediately after I graduated I began my PhD at Georgia Tech in Bioengineering with my homeschool being Mechanical engineering and currently work on cancer diagnostics research through the tools of nanomaterials and nanomedicine as part of Dr. Gang Bao's Nanotechnology lab in the Department of Biomedical Engineering. Throughout my life I have been driven and motivated by one thing, academic curiosity and I approach every new obstacle with a thirst for knowledge and sense of hardwork instilled in me by my parents. My parents came from Cuba after the revolution in 1959 with nothing but the education they had received in their home country and started a new life here in the United States. Their struggle and personal missions to always achieve more not for themselves but instead for their children introduced me to community service when I was just a child. I took my parents' dedication and fervor to my community from helping at soup kitchens when I was a little kid, to serving as project director of key club in highschool, and working in highschool outreach and mentoship programs when I was in college. It was through an highschool outreach program at Georgia Tech that I met Hermano Andres Rodriguez and was first introduced to this incredible Fraternity. Through Andres I met various other brothers in the atlanta area and instantly found the connection I was in need of finding since I had moved to atlanta. These individuals shared my passions, interests, and even philosophies on life. Since then I became an Hermano and have been very active in community outreach, mentorship, and service. My personal goals only magnified once meeting a group so supportive and high achieving with every member I am proud to truly know and call my brother.