Former Undergraduate Students
Katherine Lowe
Undergraduate Student in Bioengineering
Present Position:
Fluidics Engineer, Illumina
Pranav Sujitkumar
Undergraduate Student in Bioinformatics
Present Position:
Scientist 2, Becton Dickinson
Akhilesh Yeluru
Undergraduate Student in Biotechnology
Present Position:
Masters, Translational Medicine – UCSF & UC Berkeley
Teo Dinescu
Undergraduate Student in Bioengineering
Present Position:
PhD, Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering – Columbia University in the City of New York
Former Graduate Students
Suhas Budhiraja
Graduate Student in Bioengineering
Michael Guttman, MS
Thesis Title: Algorithms for tracking MRI tagging patterns
Present Position: Director, Software Development, MR Interventions Inc.
Scott B. Reeder, MS, MD, PhD, Biomedical Engineering
MS Thesis Title: Development of High Speed, High Resolution MRI and Tagging Techniques
PhD Thesis Title: Assessment of Myocardial Viability with Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Present Position: Associate Professor of Radiology, Section Chief of MRI and Cardiovascular Imaging, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Walter G. O’Dell, PhD, Biomedical Engineering
Thesis Title: Myocardium Deformation Analysis in the Passive Dog Heart Using High Resolution MRI Tagging
Present Position: Assistant Professor Radiation Oncology, University of Florida
Christopher C. Moore, MD/PhD,
Biomedical Engineering
Thesis Topic: Effect of local ischemia on strain patterns in the left ventricle using MRI
Present Position: Radiologist, Radiology and Imaging Group, Massachusetts
Emiko-Rose Koike Paul, MA
Medical Biological Illustration
Thesis Topic: A Three Dimensional visualization of the heart based on MRI data
Present Position: co-founder http://www.echomedicalmedia.com/
Tessa Sundaram Cook, MS
Biomedical Engineering
Thesis Topic: Image Analysis of Global Heart Geometry and Motion
Present Position: MD/PhD candidate, University of Pennsylvania
Bradley Wyman, PhD
Biomedical Engineering
Thesis Topic: Mechanical Evaluation of the Paced Heart Using Tagged Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Present Position: Director, Imaging Molecular Medicine, Pfizer Global R&D
Anthony Faranesh, MS, PhD
Biomedical Engineering
MS Thesis Topic: Methods for Real-time MRI
PhD Thesis Topic: Gadolinium-doped Biodegradable Polymer Microspheres for Magnetic Resonance Imaging Guided Drug Delivery
Present Position: Staff Scientist, National Institutes of Health
Cecilia Curry, MS
Biomedical Engineering
Co-advised with David Kass
Thesis Topic: Pacing the failing heart, evaluation with MRI
Present Position: PhD graduate, Georgia Institute of Technology,
Health Scientist, CDC Ofice of Strategy and Innovation (OSI)
Daniel Herzka, MS, PhD
Biomedical Engineering
MS Thesis Topic: Multi-slice imaging for SNR increase in rapid cardiac MRI
PhD Thesis Topic: Fast Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Improvements in Efficiency and Resolution for the Measurement of Cardiac Function
Present Position: Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins University
Bradley D. Bolster, MSE, (PhD, Ergin Atalar advisor)
Biomedical Engineering
Thesis Topic: MRI of Vascular Compliance
Present Position: Senior Scientist, Siemens Medical Solutions
Owen Faris, PhD
Biomedical Engineering
Thesis Topic: Electrical/Mechanical coupling in the whole heart
Present Position: Deputy Director, Division of Cardiovascular Devices , Office of Device Evaluation, Center for Devices and Radiological Health, FDA
Guy Shechter, PhD, MBA
Biomedical Engineering
Thesis Topic: Respiratory Motion of the Heart: Implications for Magnetic Resonance Coronary Angiography
Present Position: Senior Scientist, Philips Medical Systems
Jonathan Sorger, PhD, MBA
Biomedical Engineering
Thesis Topic: Ultrasound modulated uptake of VEGF in the myocardium
Present Position: Scientist, Intuitive Surgical Inc.
Andrew Larson, PhD Biomedical Engineering NWU
co-advised with Orlando Simonetti
Thesis Topic: Self Gated MRI Acquisition
Present Position: Associate Professor, Dept of Radiology, Northwestern University
Dan Ennis, PhD
Bioengineering
Thesis Topic: Assessment of myocardial structure and function using magnetic resonance imaging
Present Position: Associate Professor of Radiological Sciences, Bioengineering, and Biomedical Physics, UCLA
Patrick Helm, PhD
co-advised with primary advisor: R.Winslow
Bioengineering
Thesis Topic: Relationship of Fiber Architecture to Electrical Behavior of the Heart
Present Position: Scientist, Medtronic Inc.
Steven Mickelsen, MD
Howard Hughes Fellow
Research Topic: Ectopic pacing of the heart
Present Position: Resident, Mayo Clinic; Cardiology Fellow, U of Iowa
Luis Gutierrez, PhD
Biomedical Engineering
Thesis: X-ray Fused with MRI (XFM) for Guidance of Catheter-Based Interventions
Present Position: Scientist, Philips Medical Systems
Reza Nezafat, PhD
Biomedical Engineering
Thesis: Efficient Acquisition and Reconstruction Methods for MR Flow and Angiography
Present Position: Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Hiroshi Ashikaga, MD, PhD
Univ. of Tokyo
Thesis: Ventricular Electromechanics in Chronic Myocardial Infarction with Substrate for Sudden Cardiac Death
Present Position: Fellow, Department of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins
Niccolo Fiorentino
Biomedical Engineering
Project: Analysis of high resolution myocardial motion data
Present Position: Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Utah
Tri Ngo, PhD
Biomedical Engineering
Project: Real-time imaging of the fetus in utero
Present Position: Firmware Engineer – Tesla Motors
Sangjune Laurence Lee, MD
Thesis: Free Breathing Independent Navigator Gated Imaging: Concurrent PSIR and T2-Weighted 3D Imaging of the Left Ventricle
Present Position: Resident Physician in Radiation Oncology at University of Toronto
Di Xu, PhD
MS Thesis: Image Guidance for Bronchoscopy: from Procedure Planning to Computed Tomography Augmented Fluoroscopy Real Time Guidance
Project: Image Registration techniques for CT-augmented X-ray fluoroscopy for improved bronchoscopy biopsy of peripheral lung nodules
Present Position: Software Engineer at Google
Liheng Guo, PhD
MS Thesis Topic: Cardiac and Respiratory Self-Navigation Cine Imaging with Dual-Echo SSFP
Project: A new self-navigation technique for High Resolution Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Present Position: Data Science Fellow at Insight Data Science
Amir Pourmorteza, PhD
Project: Automated determination of cardiac function from high-resolution cardiac MDCT
Present Position: Scientist – National Institutes of Health
Ozan Sayin, PhD
Project: Image reconstruction techniques for Dynamic MR imaging
Present Position: Data Scientist – ZestFinance
Farhad Pashakhanloo, PhD
Project: Diffusion Tensor MRI: Calculating myocardial fiber angles in vitro and in vivo
Present Position: Postdoctoral Fellow
Daniel Postfai
Biomedical Engineering
Project: MRI of the moving joint: knees and shoulders
Former Postdoctoral Fellows
Haiyan Ding, PhD
Visiting Scientist, Biomedical Engineering
Research Project: High-Resolution T2-mapping for the detection of Edema
Present Position: Instructor, Tsinghua University
Cengizhan Ozturk, MD/PhD (Drexel University)
Research Project: Modelling motion of the left and right ventricle.
Present Position: Professor, Bogazici University, Institute of Biomedical Engineering
Ergin Atalar, PhD (Bilkent University, Turkey)
Research Project: Optimization of tagging patterns for strain measurements; ultra-fast cardiac imaging, MRI coronary angiography
Present Position: Director of National Magnetic Resonance Research Center
Professor of Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bilkent University
Camille Izard, PhD
Research Project: Characterization of Infarct Shapes – the Key to Arrhythmogenesis
Present Position: Fellow, FDA
Smita Sampath, PhD (Johns Hopkins)
Research Project: High Resolution focal Imaging for Guiding Vascular Intervention
Present Position: Assistant Professor, Yale University School of Medicine
Maria Ledesma Carbayo, PhD (visiting Fullbright fellow)
Research Project: Automatic motion tracking with non-rigid deformation
Present Position: Professor, ETSI Telecomunicación (UPM), Ciudad Universitaria
Hiroshi Ashikaga, MD, PhD
University of Tokyo, University of San Diego
Research Project: Electromechanical mapping in the ischemic heart.
Present Position: Fellow, Department of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins
Bruce Hopenfeld, PhD (University of Utah)
Research Project: Modeling Electrical Activation of the Heart
Present Position: Scientist, Angel Medical, Tinton Falls, NJ
Richard Thompson, PhD, (University of Alberta)
Research Project: Ultra-fast phase contrast imaging of ventricular blood flow
Present Position: Associate Professor, University of Alberta
Dana Peters, PhD, (University of Wisconsin)
Research Project: High resolution PR imaging of cardiovascular function
Present Position: Assistant Professor of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, Yale School of Medicine
Albert Lardo, PhD (University of Pittsburgh)
Research Project: MRI guided cardiac electrophysiology
Present Position: Associate Professor of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University
Izlem Oznur, MD (Hacettepe University, Turkey)
Research Project: MRI of myocardial ischemia
Present Position: Assistant Professor, Dept of Radiology, Johns Hopkins
Jerome Declerck, PhD
INRIA, Nice, France
Research Project: Modelling deformation of the LV with spatial/temporal B-Splines
Present Position, Chief Scientist, Mirada Solutions Ltd, UK
