Meet the UCF BRaIN Team
Jinfeng Li, MS
PhD Candidate
Mechanical Engineering
Projects: Brain dynamics and gait adaptation during during treadmill walking with small perturbations; EMG sensor evaluation; dual-layer EEG evaluation
Career goal: help improve the lives of disabled individuals based on understanding the neuromechanics of human locomotion
Projects: Gait biomechanics and brain dynamics during self-paced walking on a range of slopes; Perturbations during self-paced treadmill walking
Career goal: work in biotechnology
Highlights: UCF ORC Fellowship; The American Society of Biomechanics (ASB) President’s Award for best poster at the 2020 Annual Meeting
Projects: Guidelines for using EEG on curly hair. Something with spinal cord injury and rats – to be determined.
Highlights: UCF ORC Fellowship 2019; Black in Neuro organizer
SciComm blog: motherofneurons
Erick Vasquez, BS
volunteer
Mechanical Engineering
Projects: Developing a mobile cycle ergometer with perturbation capabilities
Former undergraduate research assistant in the lab who still wants to help out!
Ivy Nguyen
Undergrad Research Assistant
Computer Science
Projects: Developing a mobile cycle ergometer with perturbation capabilities. Evaluating dual-sided electrodes.
Jessica Sulistio
Undergrad Research Assistant
Biology
Projects: Helping out with data collections.
Priscilla Louis
Undergrad Research Assistant
Biomedical Sciences & Psychology
Projects: Guidelines for using EEG on curly hair and helping out with data collections.
Alumni
Name | Major | Degree | Year grad. | Years in lab | Notes |
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Name | Major | Degree | Year grad. | Years in lab | Notes |
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Seyed Yahya Shirazi | Mechanical Engineering | PhD | 2021 | 2017-2021 | Postdoc at NYU |
Alanna Raffaelli | Biomedical Engineering | MS with thesis | 2019 | 2018-2019 | Engineer at Harris Engineering, Inc. |
Allen Rahrooh | Biomedical Engineering | MS with thesis | 2019 | 2018-2019 | Mathematical Statistician with Department of Defense in Huntsville, AL |
Cesar R. Castano | Biomedical Engineering | MS with thesis | 2019 | 2017-2019 | PhD student in UCF BRaIN Lab |
Ethan Venosa | Biomedical Engineering | MS | 2018 | 2017-2018 | Engineer at Simi Reality Motion Systems |
SJ Jones | Biomedical Engineering | MS | 2018 | 2017-2018 | Engineer at Siemens |
Alejandro Hurtado | Aerospace Engineering | MS | 2018 | 2016-2018 | Engineer at Raytheon |
Jem Shaylor | Mechanical Engineering | BS | 2021 | 2020-2021 | |
Zachary Whitacre | Mechanical Engineering | BS | 2021 | 2020-2021 | 2021 NSF GRFP Honorable Mention |
Al Rahrooh | Biomedical Sciences | BS | 2020 | 2019-2020 | Director of Innovation at LeNgineer. Bioinformatics PhD student at UCLA |