People

Faculty

Angel V. Peterchev, PhD

Associate Professor

Dept. Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences

Dept. Biomedical Engineering

Dept. Electrical & Computer Engineering

Director, Brain Stimulation Engineering Lab

Stefan M. Goetz, PhD

Assistant Professor

Dept. Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences

Duke University

stefan.goetz@duke.edu

Dr. Goetz's interests are in magnetic stimulation technology, estimation algorithms, neural modeling, and mechanism characterization. Dr. Goetz is also working on advanced power electronic circuits with application to electrical energy conversion.

Dr. Peterchev's primary research interests are in the development and modeling of devices and application paradigms for transcranial brain stimulation. He also conducts research in power electronics and electrical energy conversion.

Current

Zhiyong Zeng, PhD

Postdoctoral Associate

Boshuo Wang, PhD

Postdoctoral Associate

Aman Aberra

PhD Student

Biomedical Engineering (2020)

Zhongxi Li

PhD Student

Electrical & Computer Engineering (2020)

Chuang Wang

Visiting PhD Student

Aniruddh Marellapudi

BME Student (2017)

Joe Tharayil

BS Student (2018)

Biomedical Engineering

Michael Shen

BS Student (2017)

Biomedical Engineering & Computer Science

Anna Hoover

BS Student (2019)

Computer Science

Evan Rogers

BS Student (2017)

Biomedical Engineering

Wesley Lim

BS Student (2018)

J. Evan Smith, B.S.

R&D Engineer

Biomedical Engineering

Alumni

PhD

Zhi-De Deng

PhD, 2013, Columbia University, "Electromagnetic field modeling of transcranial electric and magnetic stimulation: targeting, individualization, and safety of convulsive and subconvulsive applications"

Research Associate, NIMH, NIH

Won Hee Lee

PhD, 2014, Columbia University, "Noninvasive neuromodulation: modeling and analysis of transcranial brain stimulation with applications to electric and magnetic seizure therapy"

Post-doctoral Researcher, Mount Sinai Medical Center

Post-doctoral

Moacyr A. Rosa, MD, PhD

2008-2011, "Rational dosing of electric and magnetic seizure therapy"

Director, Institute for Advanced Research in Neurostimulation, São Paulo, SP, Brazil

Nagy Youssef, MD

2012-2013, "Rational dosing of electric and magnetic seizure therapy"

Associate Professor, Medical College of Georgia at Augusta, Georgia Regents University

Stefan M. Goetz, PhD

2011-2014, "Enhancing neuromodulation with transcranial magnetic stimulation"

Assistant Professor, Dept. Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Duke University

Seyed M. M. "Mahdi" Alavi, PhD

2015-2016, "Optimal estimation of parameters with transcranial stimulation"

Senior Research Associate, University of Calgary, Canada

MD

Jonathan R. Young, 2014-2015, "Subcranial magnetic stimulation"

MS

Bruce Bassi, 2008, "TMS synchronization to EEG"

I. Cassie Kozyrkov, 2011, "Enhancement of neuromodulation with novel pulse shapes generated by controllable pulse parameter transcranial magnetic stimulation"

Walter "Ivey" Barnes, 2013-2015, "Efficient methods for delivery of transcranial electric and magnetic stimulation in rodents"

Nithesh Reddy Nelvoy, 2013-2015, "Modular multilevel converters for energy conversion and biomedical applications"

Undergraduate

Jason Brodsky, 2006, "3D reconstruction of electric field from intracerebral potential recordings in non-human primates"

Robert Curtis, 2011, "MRI segmentation for intracerebral electric field modeling and analysis"

Manjiri Kshirsagar, 2012, "Safety of transcranial magnetic stimulation in subjects with deep-brain stimulation implants"

James McCall, 2013, "Safety of transcranial magnetic stimulation in subjects with deep-brain stimulation implants"

Huda Elbshir, 2013, "Feasibility of RFID technology for physiological monitoring in hibernating lemurs"

Connie Scoggins, 2015, "Electric field modeling of brain stimulation in primates and ferret"

Pum Wiboonsaksakul, 2014-2015, "Finite-element modeling and measurement of transcranial brain stimulation"

Gabriel Kroch, 2013-2016, "Modeling of static magnetic stimulation"

John Bernabei, 2013-2016, "Modeling of transcranial magnetic stimulation and transcranial electric stimulation in animals"

Emelina Vienneau, 2015-2016, "Modeling of transcranial magnetic stimulation for fMRI studies"

Research Staff

Daniel Kaplan, 2006-2008

Gregory G. Westin, 2007-2009

Brian Chan, 2008-2010

Christopher Sikes-Keilp, 2011-2015

David L.K. Murphy, 2007-2015

Clement Gurrey, 2015-2016

BSEL, February 2010

BSEL Gathering at Fullsteam, June 2013

BSEL Gathering at Fullsteam, July 2014

Brick-oven Pizza Party, October 2015