18 Students Presented Master's Theses This Semester
May 20, 2020

Top row (left to right): Quentin Altemose, Adrian Bico, Sophie Brown, Aaron Cherian, Paula Choconta '19, Joshua Daniel '18
Middle row (left to right): Alexis Fairman, Ramisa Fariha, Edgar Garcia-Lopez '16, Kareem Hussein, Kenzie Magnan, Alex Markoski
Bottom row (left to right): Julian Montagut, Swathi Pisupati, Tanaya Puranik '19, Ashton Stoop, Sheila Velagapudi, Madison Woo '17
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