Eighteen students presented their master’s thesis work in Biomedical Engineering this semester.

Quentin Altemose (Advisor: Anita Shukla)
Simulation and Synthesis of Functional, Self-Assembling Amyloid Complexes for the Development of Antimicrobial Coatings

Adrian Bico (Advisor: Jonghwan Lee)
Investigating OCT Metrics to Detect Metabolism-related Cell Death in Breast Cancer Spheroids

Sophie Brown (Advisor: David Borton)
NeuroBorealis: Live cell imaging of 3D cortical microtissue via AAV-induced fluorescence

Aaron Cherian (Advisor: Jonghwan Lee)
Development and Optimization of an Intrinsic Optical Signal Imaging System for Hemodynamic Correction of Fluorescent Signals

Paula Choconta (Advisor: Jonghwan Lee)
Optical design of a bench-top retinal prosthesis system

Joshua Daniel (Advisor: Trey Crisco)
A Feasibility Study of a Load Sensor to Measure Weight-Bearing in Pediatric Standers

Alexis Fairman (Advisor: Anita Shukla)
Coating Orthopedic Implants with Layer-by-Layer Polyelectrolyte Films for the Controlled Delivery of SHP099 to Inhibit Osteolysis

Ramisa Fariha (Advisor: Jonghwan Lee)
Assessing Chemosensitivity in 3D breast cancer spheroids using optical coherence tomography

Edgar Garcia-Lopez (Advisor: Trey Crisco)
Evaluating Dorsal Subluxation on Radiography and Computed-Tomography in Patients with Early Thumb Carpometacarpal Osteoarthritis

Kareem Hussein (Advisor: Jonghwan Lee)
Delivering Functionalized Gold Nanorods to the Rodent Cerebral Cortex for Near-Infrared Neural Stimulation

Kenzie Magnan (Advisor: Jonghwan Lee)
Prototype Design of a Photonic Retinal Prosthetic

Alex Markoski (Advisor: Ian Wong)
A Scalable 3D Printed Spheroid Capture Device for Rapid Cancer Diagnostics

Julian Montagut (Advisor: Jonghwan Lee)
Segmentation of Glioblastoma Images Using Ensembles of Convolutional Neural Nets

Swathi Pisupati (Advisor: Jonghwan Lee)
Designing and prototyping laser speckle contrast imaging system with multiple exposure times

Tanaya Puranik (Advisor: David Borton)
Biomarker Detection for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

Ashton Stoop (Advisor: Trey Crisco)
Design of a Variable Stiffness Ankle Foot Orthosis

Shelia Velagapudi (Advisor: Edith Mathiowitz)
Characterization of Temperature-Pressure Induced Morphology in High Molecular Weight Poly (Ethylene Oxide)

Madison Woo (Advisor: Jonghwan Lee)
Label-free functional imaging of cell viability response to disruptive agents in 3D spheroids using optical coherence tomography