15th Annual Fred S. Grodins Graduate Research Symposium
where Biomedical Engineering graduate students of the University of Southern California
showcase their research
April 9th, 2011 at:
Marina Del Ray Hotel
Committee Members
Mischal Diasanta, Vijay Srinivawan, Man Nguyen, Dr. Norberto Grzywacz, Diana Sabogal, Samantha Cunningham,
Liviawati Sutjandra, Zhe "Harry" Su, and Arvind Iyer
Brochure
Awards
Grodins Graduate Award:
Jay Mung
Platform First Place:
Devyani Nanduri – Predicting the Percepts of Electrical Stimulation in Retinal Prosthesis Subjects
Platform Runner-Up:
Jeremy Fishel – Development of a Testbed to Explore the Contributions that Force and Velocity Have on Sensed Vibrations in the BioTac
USC Stevens Institute "Most Innovative" Research Award:
First Place:Jay Mung – Real-time 3D Catheter Localization System Using Ultrasound
Runner Up: Jinhyoung Park – Wideband Linear Power Amplifier for High Frequency Coded Excitation
Poster Awards:
Biosystems and Signals
Manish Kurse – A First Rigorous Experimental Validation Of Biomechanical Models Of The Human Index Finger
Devices and Diagnostic Technology
Joseph Crew – Music Perception by Cochlear Implant Users
Chia-Hsien "Gary" Lin – Fabrication and Integration of Biomimetic Tactile Sensor Arrays with Force, Microvibration and Thermal Modalities
Alexander Reyes – Wireless Multi-Channel Device to Capture Dynamics of Complex Sensorimotor Tasks
Zhe "Harry"Su – Spatial Feature Extraction for a Biomimetic Tactile Sensor
Imaging
Matthew Borzage – Regional Assessment of BOLD Changes due to Hypoxia
Niharika Gajawelli – Segmentation of Brains with Cerebral Infracts using FreeSurfer
Sinchai Tsao – Differences in Appetite-Related Brain Activity with High and Low Caloric Food in Girls: A Pilot fMRI Study at 3 Tesla
Neuroengineering
Nadav Ivzan – Distribution of Retinal Responses to Natural Images: Contrast and Texture Dependence
Boshuo Wang – Strength-Duration Relationship of Retinal Ganglion Cells
Andrew Weitz – Electrical Stimulation of Retinal Ganglion Cells: Effect of Interphase Gap Duration on Threshold
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