People
Faculty
Dean J. Krusienski, PhD
ASPEN Lab Director
Professor and Graduate Program Director, Biomedical Engineering
459 Biotech 8
Phone: 804.827.1890
email: djkrusienski@vcu.edu
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Graduate Students and Visiting Researchers
Jamie Bishop, BS
MS Student, BME
Spring 2024-
Sam Cole, BS
PhD Student, BME
Dissertation: TBD
Fall 2022-
Michael Dexheimer, MS
PhD Student, BME
Dissertation: TBD
Fall 2022-
Nicholas (Nico) Druck, BS
MD-PhD Student BME
Dissertation: TBD
PhD Fall 2024-
MD: Summer 2022-
Rachel Heo, BS
MS Student, BME
Fall 2023-
Tina Naik, MS
PhD Student, BME
Dissertation: TBD
Spring 2022-
Harsh Shah, MD
VCU Neurosurgery Resident
Spring 2023-
Josie Wallner, BS
MD-PhD Student, BME
Dissertation: TBD
PhD Fall 2022-
MD: Summer 2020-
Undergraduate Students
Alumni
PhD
Pedram Zanganeh Soroush, PhD BME, VCU Fall 2019-Spring 2023
Dissertation: Characterization and Decoding of Speech-related Activity from Intracranial Signals
Currently a Senior Biomedical Engineer at Zoll Medical Inc.
Srdjan Lesaja, PhD BME, VCU Spring 2016-Fall 2022
Dissertation: Universal Design for BCI: Deep Learning Approaches for Adaptive Speech Brain-Computer Interfaces
Currently a Data Scientist at UNOS
Christoph Tremmel, PhD BME, ODU Summer 2015-Spring 2019
Dissertation: Estimating Cognitive Workload in an Interactive Virtual Reality Environment using Electrophysiological and Kinematic Activity
Postdoctoral Research: University of Essex
Currently a postdoc at the University of Southampton
Shreya Chakrabarti, PhD ECE, ODU Fall 2011- Summer 2015
Dissertation: Characterization and Decoding of Speech Representations from the Electrocorticogram
Postdoctoral Research: Columbia University
Currently a Manager in Machine Learning at Amazon Prime
Yalda Shahriari, PhD BME, ODU Fall 2012-Spring 2015
Dissertation: Multichannel Characterization of Brain Activity in Neurological Impairments
Postdoctoral Research: UC San Francisco
Currently an Associate Professor of BME at the University of Rhode Island
Nicholas Waytowich, PhD BME, ODU Fall 2010-Spring 2015
Dissertation: Development of a Practical Visual Evoked Potential Based Brain-Computer Interface
Postdoctoral Research: Columbia University/Army Research Laboratory
Currently a Research Scientist at the Army Research Laboratory
Komalpreet Kaur, PhD ECE, ODU Fall 2011-Summer 2014
Dissertation: Empirical Modeling of Asynchronous Scalp-recorded and Intracranial EEG Potentials
Currently an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Salem State University, Salem, MA
Yufei Shen, PhD ECE, ODU Fall 2010-Spring 2012
Dissertation: A Vision-based Automatic Safe Landing-site Detection System
Currently a Software Developer at MathWorks, Natick, MA
Masters
Connor Delaney, MS BME, VCU Fall 2022-Fall 2023 (BS: Spring 2019-Spring 2022)
Thesis: Computational Modeling of Temporal EEG Responses to Cyclic Binary Visual Stimulus Patterns
Currently a PhD student at George Mason University
Meghan Kumar, MS BME, VCU Fall 2019-Summer 2021
Thesis: Estimating Affective States in Virtual Reality Environments using the Electroencephalogram
Currently employed at the US Patent Office
George Micros, BS/ME ECE, ODU Fall 2011-Fall 2020
Currently a Software Engineering at Amazon Alexa
Hassan Baker, MS ECE, ODU Spring 2017-Fall 2018
Thesis: Characterization of Language Cortex Activity During Speech Production and Perception
Currently a PhD student at the University of Delaware
Zahra Battiwala, ME ECE, ODU Summer 2015-Summer 2016
Nirmal Patel, MS ECE, ODU Fall 2013-Spring 2016
Thesis: Deformable Contour Models for Digitizing a Printed Brainstem Atlas
Undergraduate
Afnan Alabdulwahab, BS ECE, ODU Spring 2016-Spring 2017
Taylor Bobrow, BS ECE, ODU Spring 2016-Spring 2017
Zachary Crane, BS Psychology, ODU Fall 2015-Summer 2016
Dillon Forte, BS BME, VCU Spring 2019-Spring 2020
Raymond Hang, BS BME, VCU Spring 2019-Spring 2021
Laysa Hedjar, BS Biology, ODU Spring 2013
Nicholas Jenkins, BS ECE, ODU Fall 2011-Spring 2015
Samiya Majid, BS BME, VCU Fall 2019-Spring 2023
Michael Micros, BS ECE, ODU Fall 2015-Fall 2017
Nipa Patel, BS BME, VCU Spring 2020-Fall 2020
Kavya Puthuveetil, BS BME, VCU Spring 2019-Spring 2022
Lynn Ray, BS Biology & Psychology, Christopher Newport University Summer 2012
Hilary Sandberg, BS/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
Dejah Singh, BS MAE, ODU Fall 2012-Spring 2014
Visiting and Supported Researchers
Brendan Allison, PhD Visiting Scholar 2014
Andy Chen, MD Medical Intern Summer 2019
Long Chen, PhD Visiting Scholar Spring 2017-Spring 2018
Sanjana Dhali, BS Visiting Scholar Fall 2017-Spring 2017
Monicka Fosnocht, BS BME Graduate Certificate, ODU Fall 2014-Spring 2015
Matthew Gray, BS Graduate Researcher Fall 2016-Spring 2018
Garett Johnson, BS BME PhD Candidate Fall 2010-Spring 2023
Virang Kumar, MD Medical Intern Summer 2019
Sara Macdonald, MS Graduate Researcher Fall 2013-Spring 2015
Fernando Sobreira, MS BME PhD Candidate Fall 2014-Spring 2018