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Faculty Dean J. Krusienski, PhD ASPEN Lab Director Associate Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering Graduate Program Director, Biomedical Engineering 2123H Engineering Systems Building Phone: 757-683-3752 email: dkrusien@odu.edu Curriculum Vitae Graduate Students Zahra Battiwala, BS EE Summer 15- Garett Johnson, BS EE BME PhD Candidate Dissertation: Toward a Brain-Actuated Musical Rhythm Synthesizer using Electrocorticography Fall 2010- George Micros, BS ECE & Math Fall 2011- Nirmal Patel, BS EE ECE MS Student Thesis Topic: Toward a Digital Brainstem Atlas Hilary Sandberg, MS Communication Disorders Fernando Sobreira, MS EE BME PhD Student Dissertation: TBD Fall 2014- Christoph Tremmel, MS BME PhD Student Dissertation: TBD Summer 2015- Undergraduate Students Zachary Crane, Psychology Summer 2015- Michael Micros, EE Summer 2015- Gabriella Scalzo, Psychology/Neuroscience Virginia Tech Summer 2014 & 2015 Zachary Wells, MAE Fall 2015- High School Students James Ogletree Ocean Lakes Mathematics and Science Academy Summer 2015 Alumni Shreya Chakrabarti, BS EE ECE PhD Candidate Dissertation: Characterization and Decoding of Speech Representations from the Electrocorticogram Fall 2011- Summer 2015 Monicka Fosnocht, BS Neuroscience BME Graduate Certificate Fall 2014-Spring 2015 Laysa Hedjar, BS Biology Spring 2013 Currently pursuing an MS in Biological Psychology at American University Nicholas Jenkins, BS ECE -Spring 2015 Komalpreet Kaur, PhD ECE Dissertation: Empirical Modeling of Asynchronous Scalp-recorded and Intracranial EEG Potentials Fall  2011-Summer 2014 Currently an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Salem State University, Salem, MA Sara Macdonald, MS ECE Fall 2013-Spring 2015 Currently pursing a PhD in communication systems at ODU Lynn Ray, BS Biology & Psychology Christopher Newport University Summer 2012 Mark Scimone, BS Neuroscience University of New Hampshire Summer 2012 Currently pursuing an MS in Biomedical Enginering at Brown University Yalda Shahriari, PhD BME Dissertation: Multichannel Characterization of Brain Activity in Neurological Impairments Fall 2012-Spring 2015 Currently a postdoc at UC San Francisco Yufei Shen, PhD ECE Dissertation: A Vision-based Automatic Safe Landing-site Dectection System Fall 2010-Spring 2012 Currently a Software Developer at MathWorks, Natick, MA Dejah Singh, ECE Fall 2012-Spring 2014 Nicholas Waytowich, PhD BME Dissertation: Development of a Practical Visual Evoked Potential Based Brain-Computer Interface Fall 2010-Spring 2015 Currently a posdoc at Columbia University/Army Research Laboratory Summer High School Students: Adam Cellon Ocean Lakes Mathematics and Science Academy Summer 2012 Randy Deng Ridgefield High School, Ridgefield, CT Summer 2014 Natalie Ebreo Ocean Lakes Mathematics and Science Academy Summer 2014 Chris Horrigan Advanced Math and Science Adademy, Marlborough, MA Summer 2013 & 2014 Sailee Joshi Ocean Lakes Mathematics and Science Academy Summer 2013 & 2014 Kyle Manetz Ocean Lakes Mathematics and Science Academy Summer 2014 Jacob Mcgill Ocean Lakes Mathematics and Science Academy Summer 2013 Kevin Nelson Ocean Lakes Mathematics and Science Academy Summer 2013 Paranjay Patel Princess Anne High School  Summer 2013 Parantap Patel Princess Anne High School Summer 2013 Long-Quan Pham Oscar Smith High School Summer 2013 Gabe Popescu Tallwood High School Summer 2014 Gabriella Scalzo Ocean Lakes Mathematics and Science Academy Summer 2012 Hunter Thompson Ocean Lakes Mathematics and Science Academy Summer 2012 & 2013 Francisca Wood Ocean Lakes Mathematics and Science Academy Summer 2012 Lab Photos Summer 2013 Left to right: Parantap, Long-Quan, Kevin, Sailee, Nick W, George, Nick J, Dr. Krusienski 5th International BCI Meeting, Asilomar, CA (Point Lobos State Park), June 2013 Left to right: Yalda, Shreya, Komal, George, Garett, Nick, Dr. Krusienski Summer 2012 Left to right: Fran, Nick, Dr. Krusienski, Garett, Gabby, George