People

Sam Cole

PhD Student, BME

Dissertation: TBD

Fall 2022-

Connor Delaney

MS Student, BME

Thesis: TBD

MS: Fall 2022-

BS: Spring 2019-Spring 2022

Michael Dexheimer

PhD Student, BME

Dissertation: TBD

Fall 2022-

Nicholas (Nico) Druck

MD-PhD Student BME

Dissertation: TBD

PhD Fall 2024-

MD: Summer 2022-

Tina Naik

PhD Student, BME

Dissertation: TBD

Spring 2022-

Harsh Shah

VCU Neurosurgery Resident

Spring 2023-

Josie Wallner

MD-PhD Student, BME

Dissertation: TBD

PhD Fall 2022-

MD: Summer 2020-

Afnan Alabdulwahab, BS ECE, ODU

Spring 2016-Spring 2017

Hassan Baker, MS ECE, ODU

Thesis: Characterization of Language Cortex Activity During Speech Production and Perception

Spring 2017-Fall 2018

Currently a PhD student at the University of Delaware

Zahra Battiwala, ME ECE, ODU

Summer 2015-Summer 2016

Taylor Bobrow, BS ECE, ODU

Spring 2016-Spring 2017

Currently in the BME PhD program at Johns Hopkins University

Shreya Chakrabarti, PhD ECE, ODU

Dissertation: Characterization and Decoding of Speech Representations from the Electrocorticogram

Fall 2011- Summer 2015

Postdoctoral Research: Columbia University

Currently a research scientist at Amazon Prime

Long Chen, PhD, East China University of Science and Technology

Visiting Scholar

Spring 2017-Spring 2018

Zachary Crane, BS Psychology, ODU

Fall 2015-Summer 2016

Sanjana Dhali, BS EE, Cornell University

Visiting Scholar

Fall 2017-Spring 2017

Dillon Forte, BS BME, VCU

Spring 2019-Spring 2020

Monicka Fosnocht, BS Neuroscience, PSU

BME Graduate Certificate

Fall 2014-Spring 2015

Matthew Gray, MS ECE, ODU

Fall 2016-Spring 2018

Raymond Hang, BS BME, VCU

Spring 2019-Spring 2021

Currently a medical student at VCU

Laysa Hedjar, BS Biology, ODU

Spring 2013

Nicholas Jenkins, BS ECE, ODU

Fall 2011-Spring 2015

Garett Johnson, MS BME, ODU

Fall 2010-Spring 2023

Komalpreet Kaur, PhD ECE, ODU

Dissertation: Empirical Modeling of Asynchronous Scalp-recorded and Intracranial EEG Potentials

Fall  2011-Summer 2014

Currently an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Salem State University, Salem, MA

Meghan Kumar, MS BME, VCU

Thesis: Estimating Affective States in Virtual Reality Environments using the  Electroencephalogram

Fall 2019-Summer 2021

Currently employed at the US Patent Office

Srdjan Lesaja, PhD BME, VCU

Dissertation: Universal Design for BCI: Deep Learning Approaches for Adaptive Speech Brain-Computer Interfaces

Spring 2016-Fall 2022

Currently a Data Scientist at UNOS

Samiya Majid, BS BME, VCU

Fall 2019-Spring 2023

Michael Micros, BS ECE, ODU

Fall 2015-Fall 2017

Nirmal Patel, MS ECE, ODU

Thesis: Deformable Contour Models for Digitizing a Printed Brainstem Atlas

Fall 2013-Spring 2016

Nipa Patel, BS BME, VCU

Spring 2020-Fall 2020

Kavya Puthuveetil, BS BME, VCU

Spring 2019-Spring 2022

Currently a PhD student at Carnegie Mellon University

Lynn Ray, BS Biology & Psychology, Christopher Newport University

Summer 2012

Hilary Sandberg, MS, Communication Disorders, ODU

Fall 2011-Fall 2016

Gabriella Scalzo, BS, Psychology Neuroscience, Virginia Tech

Summer 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016

Mark Scimone, BS Neuroscience, University of New Hampshire

Summer 2012

Yalda Shahriari, PhD BME, ODU

Dissertation: Multichannel Characterization of Brain Activity in Neurological Impairments

Fall 2012-Spring 2015

Postdoctoral Research: UC San Francisco

Currently an Associate Professor of BME at the University of Rhode Island

Yufei Shen, PhD ECE, ODU

Dissertation: A Vision-based Automatic Safe Landing-site Dectection System 

Fall 2010-Spring 2012

Currently a Software Developer at MathWorks, Natick, MA

Dejah Singh, BS MAE, ODU

Fall 2012-Spring 2014

Fernando Sobreira

PhD Candidate, BME, ODU

Dissertation: NA

Fall 2014-Spring 2018

Pedram Zanganeh Soroush, PhD  BME, VCU

Dissertation: Characterization and Decoding of Speech-related Activity from Intracranial Signals

Fall 2019-Spring 2023

Currently a Senior Biomedical Engineer at Zoll Medical Inc.

Christoph Tremmel, PhD BME, ODU

Dissertation: Estimating Cognitive Workload in an Interactive Virtual Reality Environment using Electrophysiological and Kinematic Activity

Summer 2015-Spring 2019

Postdoctoral Research: University of Essex

Currently a postdoc at the University of Southampton

Nicholas Waytowich, PhD BME, ODU

Dissertation: Development of a Practical Visual Evoked Potential Based Brain-Computer Interface

Fall 2010-Spring 2015

Postdoctoral Research: Columbia University/Army Research Laboratory

Currently a Research Scientist at the Army Research Laboratory