Jennifer Treweek
Principal Investigator
Gabilan Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering
PhD – Chemistry, The Scripps Research Institute
BS – Chemistry, BA – Economics, CALTECH
Animal-lover and avid hiker
Payam Eliahoo, PHD
Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate
Payam has over 20 years of product design and development with technical leadership in Medical Device, Aerospace and Telecommunication Industries. He has been the principal engineer for class III & II medical devices and has brought the concepts to commercialized products with both PMA and 510k submissions. His skill set includes:
- Electronics hardware and system development including Analog/Digital hardware, RF circuits, antenna design, ultrasound transducer transmitters and receivers, embedded systems. schematic and PCB (flex and rigid) layout by Altium.
- Miniaturization of electronics, flexible electronics using polyimide and LCP materials.
- Ultrasound/RF 1D and 2D Phased Array design and beam forming.
- Numerical methods such as FEM and FDTD for Acoustic and Electromagnetic product development including software: PZFlex, Field II, PiezoCAD, Ansys HFSS and Agilent ADS.
- Physics of soft matter, viscoelastic spectroscopy, shear rheology.
- Acoustic test and measurement including hydrophone, pulse echo and impedance measurement.
- Digital Signal Processing and Digital Image Processing for ultrasound diagnostic systems.
- IEC 60601-1, IEC 60601-1-2, ISO 14708-3, IEC 60601-1-6, IEC 62366, IEC 62133
USC Patents:
- Contactless Ultrasonic viscoelastic Spectroscopy
- Forward-Looking ultrasound array probe for intravascular imaging and navigation applications
Publications:
- Fabrication and Characterization of a Miniaturized 15-MHz Side-Looking Phased-Array Transducer Catheter
- Forward-looking 30-MHz phased-array transducer for peripheral intravascular imaging
- High Frequency Ultrasound Array Designed for Ultrasound Guided Breast Biopsy
- High frequency ultrasound imaging for breast cancer biopsy guidance
Woojae Jeong
Graduate Student, BME
MS, Computer Science
Research interest: Signal processing, brain-machine interface, artificial intelligence and their applications in neural engineering.
Fan Wei
Graduate Student, BME
MS, Biomedical Engineering, Cornell University
Fan is interested in the decryption and modulation of psychiatric disorders using neural engineering methods. He is currently working on characterizing a specific neural circuit related to depression and PTSD.
Zikai Wang
Graduate Student, BME
MS, Chemical Engineering, USC
Research Interest: investigate reciprocal effects of environment & experience on brain anatomy and function, especially for stress-related neuropeptides and the corresponding receptors in the central nervous system.
Zhouxiao Lu
Graduate Student, BME
Zhouxiao is a first year rotating PhD student in BME. She is interested in neuroengineering, fascinated by the fundamental ideas and techniques of brain-machine interfaces.
Marisol Castellanos
Graduate Student, BME
Marisol is a MS student studying biomedical engineering. She is currently interested in the pathophysiology of psychiatric disorders.
Advaita Chandramohan
Undergraduate BME
Advaita is interested in understanding how changes in the 5-HT system correlate with depression and PTSD. She is working to create a data processing pipeline to analyze the effects of chronic stress on CRFR2 cells within the dorsal raphe nucleus as it relates to depressive disorders.
Neha Yadav
Undergraduate BME
Neha is an undergraduate sophomore majoring in biomedical engineering who is interested in studying psychiatric disorders and the factors that contribute to them.
