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Staff and Students

Residents and Fellows | Graduate Students | Alumni | Staff

Residents, Researchers and Postdoctoral Fellows

 

Youngjae Chun, Ph.D
PostDoctoral Scholar
Research: Thin Film Nitinol Low-profile Devices for Vascular Repair

 

Shyam Natarajan, Ph.D
Postdoctoral Scholar
Research: Prostate cancer, MRI-Ultrasound image fusion, multi-modal imaging techniques, catheter-based imaging devices, embedded systems, health monitoring, signal processing

 

Bryan Nowroozi, Ph.D
PostDoctoral Scholar
Research: robotic surgery, haptic feedback, terahertz imaging, low intensity focused ultrasound, Bacterial Biofilm Disruption, and retinal detachment therapy
 

Zachary Taylor, Ph.D
Postdoctoral Scholar
Research: THz imaging, Laser-Generated Shockwaves.

 

Graduate Students

Meghi Babakhanlou
Research: Exploring biomechatronic applications of Artificial Muscles as well as building a novel robotic intraocular surgery system (LIFU)
 

 

Alan Priester
Research: Surgical Robots, Focal Prostate Therapy

 

  Shahzad Patel
Research: Bacterial Biofilm Disruption Project
  Artemio Navarro
Research: Bacterial Biofilm Disruption Project
  Ashkan Maccabi 
Research: USVA, Imaging and system development 
 

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

  Vidyunmala Ramaprasad
Research: Bacterial Biofilm Disruption
 

Zach McKinney
Research: Include surgical robotics, haptic feedback, prosthetics, control systems, amputee care, and rehabilitation engineering

 

Robert Tan
Research: Implantable sensing/remote patient monitoring

 

Priyamvada Tewari
Research: Terahertz and Ultrasound

 

Christopher Wottawa
Research:  Embedded systems design for biomedical applications

 

Jason Wilson
Research: Intraocular Robotic Surgery
Website: http://maclab.seas.ucla.edu/jason.shtml

  Neha Bajwa
Research: TeraHertz Imaging and Bacterial Biofilm Disruption
 

 

Other Current Students:  Steve Lin

Alumni

 

Richard Fan, Ph.D
Research: Include surgical robotics, haptic feedback, prosthetics, control systems, amputee care, and rehabilitation engineering

  Colin Kealey, MD
Fellow, CASIT
 

Michael Lee
Research: Multi-dimensional image reconstruction algorithms

 

Susan Ly
CASIT Assistant, Copy Editor, Webmaster 
Phone: (480)799-9266

 

David Bennett, Ph.D 
Research: Flexible microfabricated ultrasound transducers

 

Christopher Cham
Research: Mechanical Design for Medical Robotics, Devices and Prosthetics

 

Brian Cox, BS 
Research: Flexible Ultrasound 

 

Miguel Franco, MS
Research: Robotic Surgery, Prosthetics, Haptic Feedback 

 

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

 

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

 

Catherine Lewis, MD
Clinical Research Associate, CASIT
Research: Haptic feedback for robotic surgery, clinical outcomes research

 

Ben Sharareh, BS
Research: Flexible ultrasound transducer fabrication

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

Chih-Hung Aaron King, PhD
Research: Haptic feedback for teleoperated robot-assisted surgery

Stephen Prince, Ph.D
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
CASIT Research:Intraocular Robotic Surgery, Telesurgical/Telementoring Laparoscopic Robotic Surgery
Website: http://maclab.seas.ucla.edu/stephen.shtml

 

Allan Tulloch, MD
Research: Thin Film Nitinol Low-Profile Devices for Vascular Repair

Brian Allen, Ph.D 
Research:  Analysis of surgical motion using machine learning, surgical robotics

 

 

Christopher Lim
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Research: Telesurgical/Telementoring
Laparoscopic Robotic Surgery
Website: http://maclab.seas.ucla.edu/chris.shtml

 

Gabriele Nataneli, Ph.D
Research: Computer Vision Systems and Automated Analysis of Surgical Tasks

 

 

 

Other Alumni: Tim Canan, BS | Soo Hwa Han | CK Lin, PhD | Lica Nestor, PhD | Will Pannel | Shiran Shaley | Maysar Shalibi, BS | Lenka Stepan, PhD | Stephen Vampola, MS | Benjamin Tsang | Steven Wu | Ji Son

Staff

 

Holly Chung
CASIT Administrator
Phone: (310) 206-3123

 

Julia Colley
CASIT Admin Assistant
Phone:(310) 206-5545

 

Justin Thai
CASIT Admin Assistant
Phone: (626) 622-7010