Hana Ulman
Following graduation, Hana will be traveling to Denmark to further her education in computer programming and neuroscience at Aarhus University. In the summer of 2018, she worked at NASA Johnson Space Center, in Houston, TX, analyzing the effects of physiological and cognitive workloads of astronauts during spacewalks on Mars in a hybrid reality environment. She was fortunate enough to present her research at the national 2018 AICHE Conference in Pittsburgh, PA.
Chief Engineer
Ginny Thrasher
Ginny Thrasher is the 2016 Olympic Champion in 10m Women’s Air Rifle. She will graduate in
May with a Biomedical Engineering degree from WVU. In addition to her
Olympic gold medal, Ginny has also received many academic awards, including being named a 2-time
Academic All-American and a Rhodes Scholarship Finalist. This summer, after
competing in Beijing, Munich, and Peru, she looks forward to moving to the Olympic Training
Center in Colorado Springs and applying to graduate school.
Team Member
Tyler McKinney
Tyler McKinney is an aspiring dentist and as of 2019 obtaining a BS in Biomedical Engineering. Afterward, he has plans to attend West Virginia University School of Dentistry pursuing his doctorate of dental surgery. He plans to utilize his skills as a biomedical engineer to improve the quality of care in dentistry and attempt to decrease the perceived fears some may have associated with dental visits.
Team Member
Taylor Fama
Taylor Fama is a Biomedical Engineering student from Shady Spring West Virginia. During her college career she has taken part in undergraduate researcher with Dr. David Klinke of the Chemical and Biomedical Engineering department at WVU, analyzing single-cell RNA-sequencing data. She has also been involved in collegiate level 4-H by serving as the vice president of the WVU collegiate 4-H club and being a STEM Ambassador through WVU Extension to spread STEM learning to youth throughout the state. After she graduates in May 2019 Taylor hopes to enter the biomedical devices industry.
Team Member
Thomas Bradley
Thomas Bradley graduated from Greensburg Salem High School in 2015. He was given acceptance to West Virginia University to study Biomedical Engineering. In his spare time, he volunteered as an undergraduate researcher. He is expected to graduate in 2019 with his Bachelors of Science and pursue a Ph.D. in biomedical sciences. His current aspirations following graduation are to enter the pharmaceutical industry for drug development.
Team Member
Dr. Scott Galster
Dr. Galster is a first time client for a Biomedical Engineering senior design capstone. He is the director of human preformance at the Rockfeller Neuroscience Institute (RNI) on the WVU Health Sciences campus. Dr. Galster first joined WVU as a tenured professor in the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology at WVU Medicine. He now directes research physical, cognative, behavioral, environmental, biomarker, and physiological human preformance. We hope that this project can serve a part in building a bridge between the Chemical and Biomedical Engineering department and the RNI.
Project Client
Dr. Cerasela Dinu
Cerasela Zoica Dinu is an associate professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering at West Virginia University. She received her BS in physics and an MS in biophysics from the University of Bucharest, Romania. She received her PhD in biology from the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany, working with Professor Jonathon Howard. After postdoctoral research with Professor Jonathan Dordick in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Dinu joined WVU as an assistant professor in 2010. She was promoted to associate professor and associate chair of the biomedical engineering program in 2015.
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Advisor
Dr. Shuo Wang
Dr. Wang's lab exploits the unique opportunities provided by intracranial electrical recordings during neurosurgical procedures. Using single-neuron recording from epileptic patients implanted with depth electrodes and intra-op recording from DBS patients, the lab investigates neural mechanisms of saliency, attention, face processing and consciousness. The lab also combines multimodal neuroscience approaches, including functional neuroimaging, intracranial and scalp EEG, eye tracking and computational modeling. We study both healthy individuals and neurological populations such as people with autism and stroke patients.
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Advisor