11th Annual Fred S. Grodins Graduate Research Symposium
where Biomedical Engineering graduate students of the University of Southern California
showcase their research
March 31st, 2007 at:
USC Davidson Conference Center
Committee Members
Theodore Zanos, Joseph Munaretto, Rachel Bitton, Chi-Hyung "JJ" Seo, Wenli Wang, Nicholas Sachs
Awards
Grodins Graduate Award:
Xiaoning Wang
Platform First Place:
Rachel Bitton – Photoacoustic Microscopy with a 30MHz Array and Receive System
Platform Runner-Up:
Leanne Chan – Biological Response of Electrical Stimulation in Normal and Degenerate Retina
Platform Runner-Up:
Sinchai Tsao – Incorporating Radius Features for Computer Aided Bone Age Assessment of Older Children
Poster Awards:
Mahsa Rouhanizadeh – Mitochondrial membrane potential regulation by pulsatile/oscillatory shear stress
Kenrick Kuwahara – Proanthocyanidin improve healing in thermally treated collagen
Ronalee Lo – A Reusable In-Plane Polymer Integrated Microfluidic Interconnect
Madison Zitting – Design Considerations for a fiber-optic light guiding system for the excitation and collection of fluorescence marking insulin release in ß-cells
Bing Lu – Nonlinear Dynamic Neural Network for Text-Independent Speaker Identification without Knowing Exact Voice Print
Neha Parikh – Modeling a visual-attention based image processing algorithm for a retinal prosthesis using Simulink and implementing on the TMS320DM642 (720 MHz) Digital Signal Processor
Joy Hsu – Animal to Human Scaling of Anticancer Drug Pharmacokinetics/Pharmacodynamics
Rahul Kaliki – Controlling Distal Arm Postures from Shoulder Movement During 2D Reaching and Graspin
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