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CryoSafe
National Wastewater Surveillance Service
CryoSafe is a modular dual-container cold-chain shipping system built from targeted reusable and biodegradable components. Material and ergonomic cues ensure reliable temperature control, prevent sample breakage and contamination, and significantly reduce environmental impact. CryoSafe accommodates varying community needs and sample volumes while promoting the use of standardized NWSS data collection processes nationwide, providing the infrastructure to detect and respond to disease outbreaks at scale.
Aug-Dec 2023

Hello, I'm Vishal Venkatesh, a final-year industrial design student and materials researcher
at the Georgia Institute of Technology. I'm committed to thoughtful, poetic design, balancing
nonlinear, intuitive logics with methodical experimentation to solve tomorrow's toughest human-centered problems, holding up a simultaneous mirror and looking
glass to the lived experience.
