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Residents and Fellows | Graduate Students | Undergraduate Students | Alumni | Staff

Residents and Fellows

                         

Colin Kealey, MD

 

Email: ckealey@mednet.ucla.edu

                       

Jessica Folek, MD

Clinical Instructor

Email: jfolek@mednet.ucla.edu

  

Graduate Students

  Brian Allen

Email: vector@cs.ucla.edu

Research:  Analysis of surgical motion using machine learning, surgical robotics

    David Bennett

Email: davidbennett@mednet.ucla.edu

Research: Flexible microfabricated ultrasound transducers  

Youngjae Chun

Email: yjchun@ucla.edu

Research: Thin Film Nitinol Low-profile Devices for Vascular Repair     

 

Aaron Dann

Email: adann@ucla.edu                      

Reserach: Flexible microfabricated ultrasound transducers, embedded systems, signal processing. 

 

Richard Fan

Email: rfan@ucla.edu

Research: Include surgical robotics, haptic feedback, control systems and rehabilitation engineering.                           

 

Michael Lee

Email: leemichael@ucla.edu

Research: Multi-dimensional image reconstruction algorithms

 

Amit Mulgaonkar

Email: amitm@ucla.edu

Research: Exploring biomechatronic applications of Artificial Muscles as well as building a novel robotic intraocular surgery system

 

Shyam Natarajan

Email: shyam@ucla.edu

Research:  Embedded Systems, Health Monitoring, Signal Processing

 

Kresimir Petrinec

Email: petrinec@cs.ucla.edu

Research: Generation of photo-realistic models from real-patient data (CT/MRI).

 

Ji Son

Email: ji.h.son@gmail.com

Research: Haptic feedback, motion analysis.

 

Robert Tan

Email: Rntan01@ucla.edu

Research: Implantable sensing/remote patient monitoring

 

Priyamvada Tewari

Email: priyamvadatewari@yahoo.com

Research: Terahertz and Ultrasound.

 

Jason Wilson

Email: jaswils@gmail.com

Research: Intraocular Robotic Surgery

 

Christopher Wottawa

Email: cwottawa@gmail.com

Research:  Embedded systems design for biomedical applications.

 

Undergraduate Students

  

Christopher Cham

Email: Cham@ucla.edu

Research: Mechanical Design for Medical Robotics, Devices and Prosthetics                                              

David Goldenberg

Email: dgoldenberg@ucla.edu

Research: I research different tissue mimicking materials for the development of ultrasound phantoms. I also calibrate and characterize ultrasound transducers.         

Alumni

 

Chih-Hung Aaron King, PhD

Email: aaking@ucla.edu

Haptic feedback for teleoperated robot-assisted surgery                                                                

 

Brian Cox, BS

Email: briancox@ucla.edu  

Research: Flexible Ultrasound   

Miguel Franco, MS

Email: miguel.franco@ucla.edu

Research: Robotic Surgery, Prosthetics, Haptic Feedback  

 

Adrienne Higa, MS

Email: adrienne@me.berkeley.edu

Research: A Balloon-Based Haptic Feedback System for Minimally Invasive and Robotic Surgical Instrumentation

 

 

Catherine Lewis, MD

Clinical Research Associate, CASIT

Email: CaLewis@mednet.ucla.edu

Research: Haptic feedback for robotic surgery, clinical outcomes research

 

Ben Sharareh, BS

Email: bsharare@ucla.edu

Research: Flexible ultrasound transducer fabrication

Other Alumni:
Tim Canan, BS
Soo Hwa Han
CK Lin, PhD
Lica Nestor, PhD
Maysar Shalibi, BS
Lenka Stepan, PhD
Stephen Vampola, MS

Staff

                         

Holly Chung

CASIT Administrator

Email: hchung@mednet.ucla.edu

Tam Ly

Undergraduate Work-Study      

Email: lytamh@gmail.com