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	"Sensing and Actuating Life"

Ph.D. Graduate Students

Alvarez-Urena, Pedro
Advisor: Jeffrey Hollinger
Research Topic: Traumatic Brain Injury and Heterotopic Ossification
Office: PTC 4216
Email: pedroa
@ andrew.cmu.edu
Telephone: 412 268 8408 (Office), 412 736 5969 (Cell)
Web Site: www.btec.cmu.edu

Blank, Molly
Advisor: James Antaki
Research Topic: Medical Devices for Affordable and Effective Healthcare
Office: PTC 4220
Email: mollyblank
@ cmu.edu

Chang, Stephanie
Advisor: Yu-li Wang
Research Topic: Geometry and Mechanical Sensing of Adherent Cells
Office: PTC 4204
Email: sschang1
@ andrew.cmu.edu

Chen, Cheng
Advisor: Gustavo Rohde
Research Topic: Image Registration of MRI and Histology Images
Office: Hamerschlag Hall C119
Email: chengche
@ andrew.cmu.edu
Telephone: 412 268 5235

Chen, Kuan-Chieh (Jackie)
Advisors: Ge Yang and Jelena Kovačević
Research Topic: Biological Image Processing and Analysis
Office: Hamerschlag Hall C119, Mellon Institute 401
Email: jackiekc
@ cmu.edu

Duffy, Rebecca
Advisor: Adam Feinberg
Research Topic: Engineering Skeletal Muscle
Office: PTC 4208
Email: rduffy
@ andrew.cmu.edu

Hayden, Jennifer
Advisors: James Antaki and James Burgess
Research Topic: Use of Hydrostatic Pressure to Achieve Hemostasis in Surgery
Office: PTC 4224
Email: jennhayden
@ cmu.edu

Holt, Brian
Advisors: Kris Dahl and Mohammad Islam
Research Topic: Single Wall Carbon Nanotubes: Materials for Cellular Manipulation and Control
Office: Doherty Hall 2208
Email: bholt
@ andrew.cmu.edu
Telephone: 412 268 9545

Jallerat, Quentin
Advisor: Adam Feinberg
Research Topic: Cardiac tissue engineering, Biomimetic materials, Cardiac development
Office: PTC 4208
Email: qjallera
@ andrew.cmu.edu

Khanal, Amsul
Advisors: Robert Tilton, Todd Przybycien, and Stephen Garoff
Research Topic: Post-Deposition Spreading of Surfactant Aerosol
Office: Wean Hall 7332
Email: amsul
@ cmu.edu
Telephone: 412 268 9546

Kowalski, William J.
Advisor: Kerem Pekkan
Research Topic: Biomechanical Regulation of Vascular Growth and Remodeling in Embryonic Great Vessel Development
Office: PTC 3412/3415
Email: wkowalsk
@ andrew.cmu.edu

Lehocky, Craig
Advisor: Cameron Riviere
Research Topic: Robotically Controlled Flexible Needle Steering
Office: Newell Simon Hall A4081
Email: calehocky
@ cmu.edu
Telephone: 724 561 2617
Web Site: www.andrew.cmu.edu/~calehock

Loghmanpour, Natasha
Advisor: James Antaki
Research Topic: Designing Clinical Decision Support Tools for End-Stage Heart Failure
Office: PTC 4224
Email: nloghman
@ cmu.edu

Lund, Peter
Advisors: Byron Yu and Steven Chase
Research Topic: Sensory Integration in the Context of Brain-Machine Interfaces
Office: Hamerschlag B200
Email: pjlund
@ andrew.cmu.edu

Martin, Andrea (Blue)
Advisor: James Antaki
Research Topic: mPharesis
Email: asmartin
@ andrew.cmu.edu
Telephone: 412 657 7743

Menon, Prahlad M.
Advisor: Kerem Pekkan
Research Topic: Hemodynamic Performance Characterization of Jet Flows in Cardiovascular Anatomies Using High Perfomance High Resolution Computational Fluid Dynamics Simulation
Office: PTC 4319
Email: pgmenon
@ andrew.cmu.edu
Telephone: 412 259 3031
Web Site: http://www.prahladmenon.co.nr

Qiu, Minhua
Advisor: Ge Yang
Research Topic: Computational Analysis of Axonal Transport
Office: Mellon Institute 401
Email: mqiu
@ andrew.cmu.edu
Telephone: 412 268 9941

Schutte, Lyndsey
Advisor: Jeffrey Hollinger
Research Topic: Bone Tissue Engineering
Office: PTC 4212
Email: ljs1
@ cmu.edu
Telephone: 301 219 9888

Shrivats, Arun
Advisor: Jeffrey Hollinger
Research Topic: Polymer-mediated siRNA Delivery for the Prevention of Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva
Office: PTC 4214
Email: arun
@ cmu.edu
Telephone: 412 268 8408

Szymanski, John
Advisor: Adam Feinberg
Research Topic: Investigating the Mechanobiology of ECM Proteins
Office: PTC 4208
Email: jszymans
@ andrew.cmu.edu

Wilson, Mary Beth
Advisor: Phil LeDuc
Research Topic: Engineering the Microarchitecture of Biological Systems to Improve Functionality through Bottom-up and Top-down Approaches
Email: mewilson
@ andrew.cmu.edu
Web Site: http://www.marybethwilson.com

Wong, Stephanie
Advisor: Yu-li Wang
Research Topic: Cell Mechanics
Office: PTC 4305
Email: sawong
@ andrew.cmu.edu

Wu, Ying Ying
Advisor: Kenji Shimada
Research Topic: External Fixator for Bone Distraction and Deformity Correction
Office: Hamerschlag Hall B127
Email: yingyingwu
@ cmu.edu

Yeh, Fang-Cheng (Frank)
Advisor: Chien Ho
Research Topic: Validation of Cardiac Cellular MR Imaging Using Pathology Whole Slide Recognition
Office: Mellon Institute 150
Email: frankyeh
@ cmu.edu
Web Site: http://dsi-studio.labsolver.org/

Yu, Yiyi
Advisor: Ge Yang
Research Topic: Neuronal Mitochondrial Dynamics and Fluorescent Microscopy
Office: Mellon Institute 401
Email: yiyiy
@ andrew.cmu.edu
Telephone: 412 268 9941

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(updated 12/5/2012)

People

"Sensing and Actuating Life"

Ph.D. Graduate Students