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Present Members


George Stetten, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor, Bioengineering, U. Pitt
Adjunct Research Professor, Robotics Institute, CMU
Web: http://www.stetten.com
Ben Cohen
B.S. Industrial Engineering, Pitt
Isa Lisi 
Undergraduate, Bioengineering, Pitt
Jack Lorence
Undergraduate, Bioengineering, Pitt
Satyaj Bhargava
Undergraduate, Bioengineering, Pitt

Past Members


Robert Donehue
Undergraduate, Bioengineering, Pitt
Oliver Snyder
Undergraduate, Bioengineering, Pitt
Medical Student, University of Pittsburgh
Emergency Medicine Resident, Muskegon, Michegan
Linghai Wang BS, ECE, Pitt
PhD candiate, Bioengineering Pitt
Michael Gidaro
Dual major, Bioengineering and ECE, Pitt
Operations Engineer, Bechtel Plant Machinery, Inc
Bhamini Sundararaman
Undergraduate, Computer Science, Pitt
Karina Atiegha
Undergraduate, Bioengineering, Pitt
Julia Foust
BS, BioE, Pitt
PhD candidate, Biomedical Engineering, Duke University
Yuxuan Hu
BS, BioE, Pitt
MS candidate, ETH, Switzerland.
Janet Canady
BS, BioE, Pitt
PhD candidate, Sociology, Wash U. St. Louis
NSF Graduate Fellow
Max Lohss
BS, BioE, Pitt
Medical Student, University of Pittsburgh
Shantanu Satpute
MS, Bioengineering, Pitt
PhD candidate, Bioengineering, Pitt
Jake Donovan
BS, Bioengineering, Pitt, 2019
MS program, Duke's Master of Engineering Management - Founder's Track.
Product Development Engineer, FastTrack Program, Duke University
Han-Yu Lee
Masters Candidate, Mechanical Engineering, CMU
Shailja
Visiting Scholar from India
Graduate of Indian Institute of Technology
Avin Khera
BS, BioE, Pitt.
Medical Student, University of Pennsylvania.
Randy Lee, M.S.
M.S BME CMU
Ph.D., Bioengineering, Pitt, April 2017
McGinnis Fellowship
Senior Systems Engineer, Radiology R&D, Bayer
Zhixuan Yu
MS, BME, CMU, December 2016
Software Engineer, Delphi, Pittsburgh
PhD Candidate, CS, U. Minnesota
Jihang Wang, M.S.
MS, BME CMU
Ph.D., Bioengineering, Pitt, 2016
Research and Devlopment, ChemImage, Pittsburgh.
Samantha Horvath
BS, BioE, Pitt
PhD student, Robotics Institute, CMU, 2016
NSF graduate fellowship
Research and Development Engineer, Kitware.
Alexandra Delazio
BS, BioE, Pitt,
Disney Research, CMU
Article in Popular Science
U. Pitt Dept. of Rehab
Avi Marcovici
Visiting Undergraduate from Israel
Ming Tian
BS, ECE, Pitt
Tejas Mathai, M.S.
MS, BME CMU
Internships Stanford and Siemens at Princeton
PhD, Robotics Institute, CMU
Staff Scientist at NIH
Ma Luo
BS, BioE, Pitt
PhD, BioE, Vanderbilt U.
Mathworks
Medtronics
Daniel Freer
Undergraduate, Bioengineering, Pitt
Whitaker Fellow at Hamlyn Centre
Imperial College, London
Vikas Shivaprabhu, M.S., Ph.D.
internships at Kitware and GE
Omnyx Corporation, Pittsburgh
Blackmagic Design, Colorado
Apple (computer vision, machine learning)
Kori MacDonald
Undergraduate, Bioengineering, Pitt
MS, Mechanical Engineering, Rice U.
Presently engineer at GE Robotics, see article
Cynthia Wong
Undergraduate, Bioengineering, Pitt
Ph.D. student, Bioengineering, Rice University
Ada Zhang
Ph.D. Robotics Institute, CMU
Claire Hoelmer
Undergraduate, Bioengineering, Pitt.
currently at Philips Respironics.
John Galeotti, Ph.D
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Bioengineering, U. Pitt
Senior System Scientist, Robotics Institute, CMU
Bing Wu, PhD
Email: bingwu AT andrew.cmu.edu
Post Doc. Psychology, CMU
Assistant Professor, Psychology, Arizona State University
Gaurav Shukla, PhD
Email: gas9 ATpitt.edu
Medial Student, U. Pitt. MD/PhD program
Resident in Radiation Oncology
Tao Wan, PhD
Email: tao.wan.wan AT googlemail.com
Visiting Scholar from China
Visiting Faculty Rutgers U.
Bo Wang
Email: bwang34 AT gmail.com
Pitt/CMU MD/PhD program
Bert Unger, M.D., Ph.D.
Ph.D., CMU Robotics Institute
Post. Doc, Bioengineering, U. Pitt.
currently Assistant Professor, Medicine
Director Healthcare Simulation Robotics
University of Manitoba
Damion Shelton, Ph.D.
B.S. Bioengineering, U. Pitt
Ph.D. CMU Robotics Institute
CEO and Co-Founder, Agility Robotics
David Wang, M.D., Ph.D.
Web: www.wangmd.com
Radiology Residency, U. Pitt.
Fellowship in musculoskeletal radiology at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard.
Aaron Cois, Ph.D.
Web: http://viaserver.vialab.org/aaron/
Lead Engineer
Software Engineering Institute
Carnegie Mellon University,
David Weiser
Undergraduate U. Pitt
Systems engineer in California
Ken Rockot
Undergraduate U. Pitt
Nathan Sendgikoski
Undergraduate U. Pitt
Robert Tamburo, Ph.D.
Project Scientist
CMU Robotics Insitute
Headlights that avoid rain and snow.
Kimberly Zawrotny
Undergraduate U. Pitt
Worked at Medrad
Wilson Chang, M.D., Ph.D.
Stanford Radiology Residency Program
Fellow in Musculoskeletal Radiology
Vikram Chib, PhD
Undergraduate U. Pitt
PhD Northwestern University
Post Doc, Cal. Tech.
Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins BME
Zachary Mason
Undergraduate U. Pitt
MS in Mechanical Engineering at Boston University
Sam Clanton, PhD
PhD program in Robotics Institute, CMU.
Graduated MD/PhD program Pittsburgh
Apryle Craig
Undergraduate U. Pitt
M.S. ecology Colorado State University
Ph.D. candidate University of Washington, Conservation Biology
Matthew Milazzo, M.A., M.S.
Undergraduate U. Pitt
Radiological and Nuclear Capabilities Manager
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Roxanne Landesman, M.D.
Undergraduate Duke U.
MS Stanford Electrical Engineering
MD from HST program, Harvard Medical School and MIT.
Will Portnoy, Ph.D.
Undergraduate Duke U.
Ph.D. University of Washington
Principal Software Design Engineer at Microsoft
Rebekah Drezek, Ph.D.
Undergraduate Duke U.
Professor Bioengineering and EE, Rice University
home page
Guthrie, Scott
Undergraduate Duke U.
Executive VP Microsoft / Head of Cloud and AI
"Father" of ASP
see Wikipedia
Ge Wang, Ph.D.
Undergraduate Duke U.
Ph.D. Computer Music at Princeton University.
Assistant Professor, Music, Stanford
Richard Morris, M.D.
Undergraduate Duke U.
Harvard Medical School
Urology Residency at Massachusetts General Hospital
Urologist, Northern Maine Medical Center
Michael Caines
Undergraduate Duke U.
Korin Crawford, M.S.
Undergraduate Duke U.
MS Stanford Electrical Engineering
Video interview
Stanford Webpage
Visnu Pitiyanuvath
Undergraduate, Duke U.
Consultant for Start-Up Companies
Designs Massively Multiplayer Games
Node Conference 2011 presentation
  Nancy Ryan (Donahue)
B.S. Duke BME, 1994
MBA, Harvard, 2000
Director of Professional Development at McKinsey & Company