Meet the Members
Speaking of excellence,
SBU AEMB is proud to say that our chapter members find success in their extracurricular commitments too! We think it's important that our members get the credit they deserve for the accomplishments they make beyond the classroom. Here you can find just a few SBU AEMB members who've made the most out of their time as a Biomedical Engineering student!
Kyle
Hello, my name is Kyle Baylous and I am an undergraduate in BME currently in my Junior year. Last summer, I participated in an internship at Stony Brook University that was funded by the Army Research Office (ARO) which focused on fluid-structure interaction and elastic membrane simulations. These areas of fluid dynamics are very important in Biomedical Engineering when considering cardiovascular modeling. During the course of this internship, I studied general methods utilized to solve and simulate problems related to the interaction of elastic structures and fluids. The immersed boundary method (IBM) was focused on specifically and applied to studying parachute canopy (elastic membrane) motion. The coupling of the two programs FronTier++ and OVERFLOW together was a key focus of the work, since FronTier++ would handle the structural side of the IBM algorithm while OVERFLOW would handle the fluid components of the IBM algorithm. The overall goal was to develop a parachute deployment and braking module to simulate highly nonlinear deformation of the parachute canopy that utilizes IBM. Other aspects of the project included: Running parachute simulations by modeling the parachute as a stationary rigid body with various initial conditions (channel flow) to study the flow field output by OVERFLOW, developing code to post-process parachute runs efficiently, and implementing other types of rigid bodies into the simulations for payload modeling (cube, sphere, etc.). Overall, this experience was extraordinary and the research team I worked with made great progress during the summer.
Caleb
Hello everyone, my name is Caleb Sooknanan, and I am a senior double majoring in Biomedical Engineering and Applied Mathematics & Statistics on the pre-medical track in Stony Brook University's Honors College. I had the privilege of attending the 2019 BMES Annual Meeting and presenting my research project among other aspiring engineering students. My research project involved an evaluation of MRI radiomics, a research method that is used to convert captured MRI images to high-dimensional data series. This data is normally used for tumor analysis and the evaluation of tumor characteristics such as size and texture. My project used multiparametric MRI radiomics with data from different image types to distinguish benign and malignant breast tumors. The primary objective involved determining whether greater diagnostic accuracy could be obtained with information from diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI), apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) maps, and dynamic contrast-enhanced (DCE) imaging. My project's results suggested that correct tumor classification was higher when significant parameters were used from all three image types together, and further research will allow scientists to obtain more accurate tumor segmentation.
