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