PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
Professor and Associate Chair for Graduate Studies
Biomedical Engineering and Medicine
Emory University School of Medicine & Georgia Institute of Technology
Director, Children's Heart Research and Outcomes (HeRO) Center
GRADUATE STUDENTS
BME - Georgia Tech/Emory
POST-DOCTORAL FELLOWS
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Medicine
RESEARCH TECHNICIANS
UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS
MASCOT
ALUMNI
POST-DOCTORAL FELLOWS
2019-2022 Hyun-Ji Park, PhD
Current position: Assistant Professor at Ajou University
2017-2019 Farnaz Shoja-Taheri, PhD
Current position: Part-time Faculty at Georgia Gwinnett College
2014-2016 Joshua Maxwell PhD
Current position: Assistant Professor at Wake Forest Institute of Regenerative Medicine
2014-2016 Udit Agrawal, MD, PhD
Current position: Clinical Assistant Professor at University of North Dakota
2013-2014 Amanda Smith, PhD
Current position: Patent Agent at Meunier Carlin & Curfman LLC
2011-2013 Raffay Khan, MD, PhD
Current position: Cardiac Electrophysiologist at Chicago Cardiology Insitute
2010-2013 E. Bernadette Cabigas, MD
Current position: Associate Medical Director at 3M
2009-2013 Karl Pendergrass, PhD (Cardiology T32; Merck/UNCF Fellowship)
Current position: Medical Affairs Director at Merck
2008-2010 Kathryn Rafferty, PhD (AHA fellowship)
Current position: Assistant Professor at University of Nevada Las Vegas
2007-2008 Susan Varghese, MD, MBA
Current position: Intelligence Analyst, Department of Justice
GRADUATE STUDENTS
2023-2024 Pranshu Rajurkar, BME Master's student
Current position: PhD student at Georgia Tech
2017-2022 Sruti Bheri, BME student
Current position: Senior R&D Engineer at Medtronic
2018-2022 Preety Shakya, BME Master's student
Current position: MBA Student at Georgia Tech
2018-2022 Jessica Hoffman, MSP student (NIH F31, Woodruff Fellowship, ARCS Scholar)
Current position: Senior Bioinformatics Scientist at Belharra Therapeutics
2021-2022 Arun Jayaraman, BME Master's student
Current position: Scientist at AbbVie
2016-2020 Benjamin Streeter, BME student (AHA-CHF Fellowship)
Current position: Scientist at Axion Biosystems
2016-2020 Donald Bejleri, BME student
Current position: Scientist at Luminex Corporation
2014-2019 Aline Nachlas, BME student (NSF, Alfred P. Sloan, and AHA Fellowships)
Current position: Product Strategy and Operations Lead at Google
2015-2019 David Trac, M.D./Ph.D., Emory/GT
Current position: Medical Student at Emory University
2011-2017 Srishti Bhutani, BME student
Current position: Scientist at Merck KGaA
2011-2017 Mario Martinez, M.D./Ph.D, Emory/GT
Current position: Resident Physician at CoxHealth
2011-2013 Jie Liu, BME/PKU student, Peking University (Co-advisor)
2010-2015 Kristin French, BME student (NSF Fellowship)
Current position: Postdoc at UT Southwestern Medical Center
2009-2015 Inthirai Somasuntharam, BME student
Current position: Scientist at Medtronic
2009-2014 Warren Gray, BME student (Whitaker, GAANN, and ARCS Fellowships)
Current position: Engineer at Intel
2008-2014 Archana Boopathy, BioE student GT (AHA Fellowship)
Current position: Scientist at Gilead
2006-2011 Gokulakrishnan Seshadri, BioE student
Current position: Senior Engineer in Intel
2006-2011 Jay Sy, BME student, Emory/GT (NSF and DHS Fellowships)
Current position: Assistant Profession of Biomedical Engineering, Rutgers University
UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS
2023-2024 Alivia Glas, BME Student, Georgia Institute of Technology
2022-2024 Evan Yang, QTM Student, Emory University
2023-2024 Layla Al Ribi, BME Student, Georgia Institute of Technology
2021-2024 Arianna Turchetti, BME Student, Georgia Institute of Technology
2023 Danny Kwon, BME Student, Georgia Institute of Technology
2021-2023 Utari Santosa, BME Student, Georgia Institute of Technology
2020-2022 Sarah Park, Biology Student, Emory University
2020 Caitlyn Nycum, BME Student, Georgia Institute of Technology
2019-2021 Brandon Kassouf, BME Student, Georgia Institute of Technology, Petit Scholar
2016-2018 Sophie Li, BME Student, Georgia Institute of Technology, Petit Scholar
2015-2016 Alex George, BME Student, Georgia Institute of Technology, Petit Scholar
2015 Yash Mehta, Emory SURE student
2013-2015 Shohini Ghosh-Choudhary, BME Student, Georgia Institute of Technology, Petit Scholar
2012-2015 Sheridan Carroll, BME Student, Georgia Institute of Technology
2012-2013 Marcos Fierro, BME Student, Georgia Institute of Technology
2012-2013 Catherine Gu, BME Student, Georgia Institute of Technology
2011 William Hughes, Genetics Student, University of Georgia
2010 Sindhu Surapenini, Biology Student, Georgia Institute of Technology
2009 Andrew Slugg, BME Student, Georgia Institute of Technology
2008 Allison Kennedy, Biology Student, Middle Tennessee State University
2007 Teresa Oh, Biology Student, University of Pennsylvania
2005 Rachel Orler, Biology Student, Harvard University
2005 Adam Was, Biology Student, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2003-2004 Olimuyiwa Oni, MechE Student, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2003-2004 J.P. Michael Motion, EE Student, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2001 Alexis Cutchins, Medical Student, Emory University
2000 Johnathan Whitt, ChemE Student, Georgia Institute of Technology