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Academic Year 2025-2026
Carrie Kim pictured above.
June 13, 2025: Thayer Investiture 2026! Congratulations to Dr. Sophie Lloyd and Dr. Allaire Doussan who walked the stage and were hooded by Dr. Halter. Another congratulations to Carrie Kim and Jake Markus for earning their Bachelor of Engineering.
(Top) Dr. Doussan & Dr. Halter.
(Bottom) Dr. Lloyd with Dr. Halter.
Jake Markus (left most) pictured with his team. win the Dartmouth Society of Engineers Prize. This is awarded annually for outstanding performance in an engineering project by a Bachelor of Engineering student or team of students.
Team: Alexander A. Zhelyazkov, Elijah Butler, Victory Simbarashe Kumbula, Nathan Charles Tamkin, Rory M. F. McDowell, Jacob Ramsey Markus, and Calista Li Adler
March 25, 2025: PhD students Allaire Doussan and Sophie Lloyd, and Professors Ethan Murphy and Ryan Halter are coauthors of "Comparison of Complex Open Domain Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT) Methods" published in IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering. The paper focuses on complex EIT methods and introduces a novel method for handling inversions in permittivity reconstructions.
March 19, 2026: Dr. Sophie Lloyd successfully defended her thesis, "Development of an intraoperative oral cancer detection device and imaging system."
March 17, 2026: This year's Biomedical (BME) RIP was organized by Zenia Valdiviezo, Riley Flores, and Professor Ryan Halter.
March 10, 2026: New US Patent - Professors Ryan Halter, Jonathan Elliott, Vikrant Vaze, and Ethan Murphy —with Geisel Professor Norman Paradis—were issued a US patent for "System and method to detect the presence and progression of diseases characterized by systemic changes in the state of the vasculature." The invention uses a novel technique to obtain multiple tissue measurements which are then "transformed by a multivariate algorithm to outputs that convey the diagnostic and prognostic risk of the disease of interest," according to the patent.
September 3, 2026: Allaire Doussan starts as a Research Associate B w/ Dr. Halter & Postdoctoral Fellow with Dartmouth Emerging Engineers (DEE).
September 3, 2025: Dr. Mimi Lan successfully defended her thesis.
Academic Year 2024-2025
August 28, 2025: Dr. Allaire Doussan successfully defends her thesis, "An Active Electrode Electrical Impedance Tomography Probe for Intraoperative Surgical Margin Assessment in Robotic-Assisted Radical Prostatectomies."
February 2025: Welcome our new postdoctoral researchers Yi Zheng and Ehsan Nasiri! Click here to learn more about them and their work.
Project team leaders (l to r): Dartmouth Engineering professors Ryan Halter, Keith Paulsen, and Kimberly Samkoe (Scott Davis not pictured). (Photo by Catha Mayor)
Thayer News: Dartmouth Engineering Leads Team Selected for ARPA-H Award to Develop Novel Technologies for Precise Tumor Removal
Thayer News: Dartmouth Engineering Leads Team Selected for ARPA-H Award to Develop Novel Technologies for Precise Tumor Removal
Dartmouth Engineering will lead one of the first eight teams announced today by the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) to receive an award through its Precision Surgical Interventions (PSI) program. An agency within the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), ARPA-H is committing up to $31.3 million over seven years to the Dartmouth-led team to create a laparoscope-integrating imaging solution that will be especially helpful in prostate cancer surgeries.
Aug 13, 2024 | by Catha Mayor Link to Article
Academic Year 2023-2024
Ryan Halter, Dr. Joseph Paydafar, Yuan Shi (Team Lead), Riley Renee Flores, Sadaf Tabatabaei, and Daniel Shen
ENTerpoint wins $50k at DIADH
ENTerpoint wins $50k at DIADH
The Dartmouth Innovation Accelerator for Digital Health (DIADH)—a partnership between the Center for Technology and Behavioral Health and the Magnuson Center for Entrepreneurship at Dartmouth—awarded $50,000 to a team led by alum Yuan Shi Th'24, and includes Professor Ryan Halter, for their "ENTerpoint Surgical Navigation System." The system "has the potential to significantly enhance safety and efficacy of transoral robotic surgery while reducing costs," says Shi. Learn more about the accelerator at: https://lnkd.in/eR_KUsMW
Aug 2024 | by Dartmouth College Technology Transfer Office Link to Article
January 8, 2024: Kendall Farnham starts as a, Research Associate B with Ryan Halter.
December 29, 2023: A Better, Safer Surgical Stapler - Professors Ethan Murphy and Ryan Halter, and PhD student Harsha Devaraj, along with Medtronic collaborators, coauthored "Development of an Electrical Impedance Tomography Coupled Surgical Stapler for Tissue Characterization" published in IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering. The featured article investigates the incorporation of electrical impedance tomography into a surgical stapler to improve outcomes. Further studies are planned based on the promising results.
October 2, 2023: Yuan Shi starts as a Research Assistant w/ Ryan Halter.
September 5, 2023: Welcoming new Clinical Engineering Research Assistant, Safina Suratwala, and PhD Students, Sadaf Tabatabaei and Riley Flores, to the Halter Lab.
Thayer Startup Receives $1.8M NIH Grant
Thayer Startup Receives $1.8M NIH Grant
SynchroHealth, a startup co-founded by professor Ryan Halter, was awarded a $1.8 million Phase II Small Business Technology Transfer grant from NIH's National Institute on Aging. The award builds on a Phase I grant to develop BandPass, a remote-sensing resistance exercise band and app that allows healthcare providers to monitor, evaluate, and guide patients as they conduct home-based exercise programs. "BandPass started out as Sue Mohieldin's undergraduate honor's thesis project at Thayer and has moved quickly down the translational pathway," says Halter.
Sep 2023 | Full Article on Dartmouth News
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