Center Leadership

Director

Associate Director

Student & Post-Doctoral Fellow Members

Member	Program	Research Project Area

Nicholas Berry	Doctoral Program in Biomedical Engineering	Biological and therapeutic effects of ultrasound
Etana Elegbe	Doctoral Program in Biomedical Engineering	Spatially Modulated Ultrasound Radiation Force as a novel tool for tissue imaging and characterization.
Andrew Hesford, Ph.D.	Post-Doctoral Fellow in Electrical & Computer Engineering
Neo Jang	Doctoral Program in Mechanical Engineering	Dynamic Response of a Gas Bubble in Liquid Inside a Solid Tube When Excited by Ultrasound via Computer Simulation
Sanghamithra Korukonda	Doctoral Program in Electrical & Computer Engineering	Strain Tensor Imaging
Jonathan Langdon	Doctoral Program in Biomedical Engineering	Medical imaging research
Karla P.. Mercado	Doctoral Program in Biomedical Engineering	Ultrasound Characterization of Engineered Tissues
Oscar Osapoetra	Doctoral Program in Physics & Astronomy	Viscoelastography and Poroelastography
Alex Partin	Doctoral Program in Electrical & Computer Engineering	Sonoelastography
Michael Richards, Ph.D.	Post-Doctoral Fellow in Electrical & Computer Engineering	Elastic behavior, both linear and non-linear, of atherosclerotic plaques using an intravascular ultrasound imaging system and elastographic based image processing algorithms
Michael Sealander, B.S.	Doctoral Program in Electrical & Computer Engineering	Self-adaptive codes for echo-location; channel characterization using model inversion for space-time data sets.
Himanshu Shekhar	Doctoral Program in Electrical & Computer Engineering	Subharmonic Imaging
Shuang James. Wu	Doctoral Program in Electrical & Computer Engineering	ARFI induced crawling wave imaging, sonoelastography, medical image processing.

Recent Graduate Students

December 2012
Kelley Garvin, Ph.D.
Ultrasound Technologies for the Spatial Patterning of Cells and Extracellular Matrix Proteins and the Vascularization of Engineered Tissue
December 2012
Carlos Sevilla, Ph.D.
The Role of Extracellular Matrix Fibronectin and Collagen in Cell Proliferation and Cellular Self-Assembly
March 2011
Wei Jiang, Ph.D.
Ultrasound Focusing by Use of Apertures with Different Pitches and Ultrasound Imaging by Use of a Hemispheric Transducer Array
October 2010
Liwei An, Ph.D.
KLA-Tencor Corporation in San Jose California

Analysis of Crawling Waves and Estimation of tissue Elasticity
July 2010
Manoj Menon, Ph.D.
Senior Systems Engineer, Siemens Medical Solutions, Ultrasound Division, Issaquah, Washington

Resolution Estimation and Bias Reduction in Acoustic Radiation Force Impulse Imaging
May 2010
Jiang Jin, Ph.D.
Image Reconstruction Based on Estimated Scattering Object Characteristics
May 2010
Shayin Jing, Ph.D.
Internship, Kona Medical, Inc.
May 2009
Benjamin Castaneda, Ph.D.
Extracting Information from Sonoelastograhic Images
May 2009
David Duncan, Ph.D.
The Use of Focused Beams with Unique Biomedical Ultrasonic Imaging Systems
May 2008
Jarrod Orzulak, M.S.
MIT AgeLab

Shear Wave Formation and Tracking for Detection of Liver Fibrosis
May 2008
Man Zhang, Ph.D.
The measurement and imaging of viscoelastic properties of soft tissues and lesions