Members
Team: Our teams are composed of: Engineers, (Machine & Deep Learning, Radio Frequency, Computer, Wireless Signal Processing, Biological, Nano, Mechanical), Pre Medical, Medical Doctors and Undergraduates. Join us!
Imanuel Lerman MD MS
I am a professor in the Departments of Anesthesiology, and Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE). I hold a BS in Molecular Cellular and Developmental Biology as well as Kinesiology and Applied Physiology from the University of Colorado at Boulder. I trained at Georgetown University School of Medicine for my MD and an MS in Physiology and Biophysics. My clinical residency training was in Neurology at Yale, and fellowship training in Pain Medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital. I completed a research fellowship here at UCSD under the VA CESAMH program and won a NARSAD young investigator award through the Brain and Behavior Foundation.
Troy Bu PhD (candidate)
Troy received his BS/MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at UC San Diego with a research focus on Machine Learning and Data Science. He is pursuing his Ph.D degree in ECE. His current research focuses on biomagentic signatures characterization and image processing.
Rosalynn Conic MD PhD MPH
Rosalynn Conic completed medical school at the University of Belgrade in Serbia, followed by a PhD in Clinical Translational Science at Case Western Reserve University. She completed Preventive Medicine residency at UC San Diego along with an MPH in Health Management and Policy and is currently a resident in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the University of Florida. She is interested in data extraction from electronic health records, big datasets and health outcomes research.
Sopyda Yin BS (candidate)
Sopyda Yin: our Chief Research Assistant is an undergraduate student at the University of California, San Diego studying Human Biology. She has developed an algorithm for processing cardiac data pre-to-post neuromodulation. She currently runs the VNS-PTSD, DARPA-SLEEP, and LPS-MNG study.
Noamon Sahial BS (Pre-MD)
Noamon received his B.S in Global Health with a minor in Bio at UCSD. He is working towards pursuing medical school with a developed interest for anesthesiology. He first joined the team in 2021 as a research assistant for the UNITE Study.
Rhea Gandhi BS (candidate)
Rhea is a freshman at Claremont McKenna College majoring in Computational Neuroscience and Economics. Her research interests are in neural stimulation from both a neuromodulation perspective and the more mathematical side of neural stimuli and encoding.
Prior Members
Elizabeth Baum MS (candidate)
Elizabeth completed her master's degree in electrical engineering with a focus on medical devices and systems. Her research interests are in bioelectronic circuits specifically for cancer diagnosis and treatment. Within the Lerman Lab, Elizabeth works on ultrasound projects with the goal of characterizing cavitation and tissue displacement in HIFU procedures.
Christina Cui MD MS (2019-2022)
Christina was a medical student whom completed her masters degress in clinical research. She is examined the frequency specific neural and physiological effects of spinal cord stimulation. She is now a Vascular Surgery Integrated Residency Program resident at Duke Medical Center.
Jacob Caylor MD (2021)
After completing medical school at the University of Washington in Seattle, Jacob completed his residency in Anesthesiology at UC San Diego, where he was chief resident, and followed on with an Interventional Pain Medicine Fellowship at UC San Diego. Jacob has a special research interest in sex-specific responses to spinal cord stimulation. Looking forward, he has an interest in teaching, population, gender specific targeted spinal cord stimulation and targeted intrathecal drug delivery for cancer pain patients.
Current: Private Practice Interventional Pain Physician
Aaron Zeng BS (2020)
Aaron is an undergraduate student majoring in Electrical Engineering. He is highly involved in ongoing neural recording experiments and has developed multiple signal processing pipelines for the lab, (i.e.,UCSD Multi-layered Recursive Least Square (UCSD-RLS) algorithm). He is pursuing a PhD program in Brain Machine Interface(BMI) after undergraduate graduation. He enjoys board games.
Current: Carnegie Mellon University MSc candidate in Neural Engineering.
Yan Gong MS 2019 (2017-2019)
Yan implemented a real-time beamforming process from raw data and reconstructed B-mode images focused on a peripheral nerve detector that was trained using convolutional neural networks. She successfully extracted the location of the nerve from the beamformed data, validating the idea of real-time FUS guidance.
Current: Washington University in St. Louis, PhD candidate in Biomedical Engineering
Lu Xu MS 2019 (2017-2019)
Lu focus was on focused ultrasound characterization for neural stimulation. Lu developd and characterized multiple FUS systems that were eventually employed in a clinial study. Lu confirmed FUS neural stimulation with evoked potetntial and Magnetoencephalography measures.
Current: Washington University in St. Louis, PhD candidate in Biomedical Engineering
Bryan Davis MD MS 2017 (2015-2017)
Bryan examined the physiological changes that occur pre-to-post non-invasive vagus nerve stimulation (nVNS). Pre-to-Post VNS he showed increased parasympathetic tone and enhanced mood in response to successive heat pain challenges. These findings are consistent with known afferent projections of the vagus nerve and warrant further study.
Current: Pain Fellow Brigham and Womens Hospital, Harvard Medical School.
Edward Zhong MS 2017 (2015-2017)
Edward progammed, designed and implemented systems capable of characterizing autonomic measures during experimental pain paradigms in subjects treated with non-invasive vagus nerve stimulation and spinal cord stimulation.
Current: Lockheed Martin
Nam Nguyen MS 2015 (2014-2015)
Nam built and programmed an anticipation based heat pain paradigm that is now in use at UCSD's PTSD and pain research and stress neuroimaging laboratories. Nam developed novel ECG waveform detection techniques utlized in our neuroimaging studies.
Current: Northrup Grumman
Collaborators:
Rahul Singh PhD: Focused Ultrasound, Ultrasound Imaging, Manufacturing, Design, Commercialization and Regulatory Expert. Farus LLC (Singh Lab (Farus LLC, InflammaSense)
Todd Coleman PhD: Neuronal Signal Processing, Fusion Phsyiological Signal Processing. Gut Brain Interaction. (Coleman Lab)
Ramesh Rao: Signal Processing. (Ramesh Rao Qi)
Mingxiong Huang PhD: Radiology Imaging Laboratory (MEG) (Huang Radiology Imaging Laboratory)
Amir Borna PhD: Sandia National Laboratories, Optically Pumped Magnetometers (OPM), (Amir Sandia Lab)
Peter Schwindt PhD: Sandia National Laboratories, Optically Pumped Magnetometers (OPM), (Schwindt Lab Sandia)
Alan Simmons PhD: Psychiatry and Functional Neuroimaging (fMRI) Stress and Neuroimaging Laboratory (Simmons Lab)
Donald Kimball: Digital Signal Processing Radio Frequency Engineer. (Don Kimball Qi)
Victoria Risbrough PhD: Fear Extinction Learning, Slow Wave and REM Sleep Laboratory. (Risbrough Lab)
Dewleen Bake MD: Posttraumatic Stress Inflammatory Biomarker Laboratory. (Baker CESAMH Lab)
Richard Hauger MD PhD: Biomarker Core Evaluation of cytokines and stress hormones. (Hauger Lab and Core)