Yuan is a PhD candidate at the Thayer School of Engineering in the Class of 2022. She currently works on developing a retractor for image-guided transoral robotic surgery. She likes dog sitting and eating noodles.

Mimi is a graduate student in the PhD program at the Thayer School of Engineering. She graduated UC Berkeley with a degree in Bioengineering in 2011 and subsequently worked in orthopedic medical device design and space rocket development before returning to school. 

Mimi is interested in bioastronautics research and hopes to apply electrical impedance technology to improve medical diagnostics for space travel.

Current Projects:

Mimi is working on multiple projects, including,

(1) The creation of an EIT instrumented cell culture chamber; 

(2) Development of a spaceflight compatible urine sampling device to measure inflight urine calcium concentrations; 

(3) Development of a rapid onset scopolamine delivery method and formulation for "rescue" motion sickness relief; 

(4) Numerical lumped parameter modeling of the human cardiovascular system in spaceflight to explore acute hemodynamics of weightlessness exposure

Allaire is a PhD candidate in the Innovation Program at the Thayer School of Engineering. Her current project focuses on developing a probe that distinguishes between benign and malignant prostate tissue using Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT) for surgical margin assessment in robotic assisted laparoscopic prostatectomies. Allaire is also investigating the use of EIT as a metric for pulmonary function testing in ALS patients. In her free time she enjoys rock climbing and being outdoors.

Research interests: Medical devices, surgical robotics, wearables

Sophie is a PhD student in the Innovation Program at the Thayer School of Engineering.

Zenia is a graduate student in the PhD program at the Thayer School of Engineering. 

Sadaf is a graduate student in the PhD program at Thayer School of Engineering. She completed her Sc.B in BME at Sheikh Bahei University. Following this experience, she pursued her Masters of Science at Isfahan University of Technology.

Outside of the lab, Sadaf likes star gazing and learning about mysteries of the sky. She reads self-improvement books and fictions. She also enjoys going to historical places and explore the myths and histories.

Current Projects: 

Sadaf is working on multiple projects including:

1) Seizure localization and brain stimulation with EIT simultaneous with SEEG electrodes, 

2) Working on fluid shifts happening in the brain and body with EIT for astronauts during flight in different postures, 

3) Muscle loss detection caused by chemotherapy with EIT registered to ultrasound.

Riley is a graduate student in the PhD Innovation Program at the Thayer School of Engineering. She graduated from Brown University with a Bachelors of Science degree in Biomedical Engineering. Post-undergrad, she was hired as a Research Engineer for Dr. Tripathi's Lab for Scalable Bioengineering Solutions For Diagnostics and Life Sciences to continue her work in designing and testing a device for tissue sample processing for downstream single cell sequencing.

Riley is interested in diagnostic device research. She is currently investigating how to apply impedance technology at the cellular level for disease detection.

Kendall studied computer/electrical engineering during her undergrad (Dartmouth ’14, Thayer BE ’14), then spent 4 years in industry working as a software engineer before returning to Thayer for her PhD. She is most passionate about biomedical device design and applications in space – as a NASA graduate research fellow, her PhD is focused on building an EIT system for astronauts in deep space.

Harsha Devaraj joined the Halter lab in 2018 after receiving his Bachelor of Engineering (BE) in Mechanical Engineering from PSG College of Technology in India. At Dartmouth, his engineering science graduate degree focused on engineering in medicine, electrical engineering, and surgical innovation. He served as a graduate research assistant from 2018 to 2023. Currently, he works at Analog Devices as a systems application engineer in their digital healthcare business unit.

Dennis is a Dartmouth College '14, Thayer BE '14, and Thayer PhD '19. He is currently a postdoctoral research fellow at the Gordon Center for Medical Imaging at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School.

Peter graduated from the Geisel School of Medicine in 2019 and is a current resident in Otolaryngology at the University of Michigan.

Aravind Graduated From the Geisel School of Medicine in 2020 and is currently a Vascular Surgery Resident at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center

Chris completed his PhD in Quantitative Biomedical Sciences in 2018, and graduated from Geisel School of medicine in 2020. He is currently an Internal Medicine Resident at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, MA

Mike was a Geisel School of Medicine student Class of 2022.

Interests in Medicine: Head and Neck Cancer, General Otolaryngology, Pediatric Otolaryngology, and Neuroradiology

Dhanashree Vaidya was a Thayer School of Engineering MS student of Class 2021. She worked on biomedical wearables and instrumentation.

Dr. Paydarfar is Chief, Division of Otolaryngology, Audiology and Maxillofacial Surgery at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Associate Professor of Surgery—Otolaryngology at the Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine, and Adjunct Associate Professor of Engineering, Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth. His clinical specialty and interests are in head and neck oncologic and reconstructive surgery, trans-oral laser microsurgery, and trans-oral robotic surgery.

Research Intersts: wound complications in head and neck surgery, minimally invasive approaches and surgical navigation in head and neck surgery.