Grodins Graduate Award:
Heidi Gensler - Implantable MEMS Micropump System for Chronic Drug Delivery

Platform First Place:
Matthew Borzage - Forebrain and Hindbrain response to Hypoxia in Adults

Platform Runner-Up:
Alice Cho - Physiological Response of Mouse Retinal Ganglion Cells to Electrical Stimulation

Grodins Service Award:
Steven Walston, Antonia Zaferiou, Niharika Gajawelli, Sneha Ravi, Bong Jin Kang

Biomedical Engineering Department Service Award:
Sinchai Tsao

Best Poster Awards:

• Biosystems and Signals

   Hu, Wenhsin - Modeling the Progression to Type 2 Diabetes: Extending PNEUMA
Kang, Yue - Dynamic Nonlinear Modeling of EEG data for Diagnosis of Alzheimer’s Disease

• Devices and Diagnostic Technology

   Lin, Chia-Hsien - Estimating Point of Contact, Force and Torque in a Biomimetic Tactile Sensor
with Deformable Skin
Nicholson, Adriana - Closed-Loop Recharging System for a Fetal Pacemaker
Su, Zhe - Haptic robot and human psychophysical studies: A complementary framework
to decode haptic perception
Zhou, Li - Mechanical Design and Testing of a Percutaneously Implanted Cardiac Pacemaker for Fetuses

• Imaging

   Cunningham, Samantha - Functional Connectivity of Dorsal and Ventral Visual Streams in Late-Blind Individuals
with Retinitis Pigmentosa
Nguyen, Man - Ultrasound Harmonic Imaging for Fresnel Beamforming: Implementation and Evaluation
in the Presence of Phase Aberration
Shin, Jun Seob - Dual Apodization with Cross-correlation in Tissue Harmonic Imaging

• Neuroengineering / Cell and Tissue Engineering
  

   Iyer, Arvind - Neural Spikes in Hamming Spaces : Examining Applicability of Linear Decoding
Xu, Huijing - Simultaneous recording of unitary activities from dentate gyrus,
CA3 and CA1 regions of the hippocampus in behaving rats with a customized multi-electrode array
Yu, Gene - Frequency Domain Analysis of the Spatiotemporal Transformation
Performed by Rat Dentate Gyrus Cells

• 1st Year Ph.D Student Best Poster Award

   Peterson, Travis - Neuromuscular Control Strategies of the Golf Swing Using Different Clubs

USC Stevens Center "Most Innovative" Research Award:
Shin, Jun Seob - Dual Apodization with Cross-correlation in Tissue Harmonic Imaging

Coulter Award:
First Place: Nicholson, Adriana - Closed-Loop Recharging System for a Fetal Pacemaker
Runner Up: Sheybani, Roya - Closed-loop On-demand Micropump for Chronic Pain Management Applications

BMES Travel Awards:
Beebe, Tyler - Shear Stress-Responsive Protein Kinase C Epsilon Modulated Endothelial Tube Formation
Crew, Joseph - How Does Electric Hearing Combine with Acoustic Hearing for Speech and Music?
Eikenberry, Steffen - Principal Dynamic Mode Analysis of a Nonlinear Autoregressive Volterra Model
of the Hodgkin-Huxley Equations
Henley, Brandon - Parametric Versus Nonparametric Modeling of Cerebral Hemodynamics
Ivzan, Nadav - Statistical Analysis of a Probabilistic Model Predicting
: The Retinal Ganglion Cell Responses to Natural Images
Iyer, Arvind - Neural Spikes in Hamming Spaces : Examining Applicability of Linear Decoding
Jen, Nelson - Oscillatory Shear Stress Induces Mitochondrial DNA Damage and Autophagy
Kang, Yue - Dynamic Nonlinear Modeling of EEG data for Diagnosis of Alzheimer’s Disease
Lee, Juhyun - Study of Zebrafish Cardiac Morphogenesis Using Computational Fluid Dynamics
Ma, Teng - Laser-scanning Photoacoustic Ophthalmoscopy with Optimized High-frequency Transducer Design
Nava Guerra, Leonardo - Model-based Estimation of Ventilatory Control Dynamics during NREM Sleep
in Pediatric Obesity
Nicholson, Adriana - Closed-Loop Recharging System for a Fetal Pacemaker
Zhou, Li - Mechanical Design and Testing of a Percutaneously Implanted Cardiac Pacemaker for Fetuses