HEPIUS Lab Members
We have built a team of preeminent researchers and clinicians, from both academia and industry settings, who specialize in fields such as neurosurgery, military medicine, novel ultrasound transducers, complementary metal-oxide semiconductor-integrated circuit design and nanofabrication, machine learning, software development and immunology. Our team also includes experts experienced in translating leading-edge technology to human use, while addressing ethical, consumer and commercialization considerations.
Principal Investigators
Meet Our Multidisciplinary Team
Biomedical Engineering Collaborators
Radiology Collaborators
Neurosurgery Collaborators
School of Public Health Collaborators
Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine Collaborators
Electrical and Computer Engineering Collaborators
Mechanical Engineering Collaborators
Animal Study Collaborators
Junqing (Jenny) Zhou, M.D., Ph.D., CNIM

Advisors
Geoffrey Ling, M.D., Ph.D.

Sergeant Luke Sciulli

Stephanie Thacker, Ph.D.

Administration
Geltrouda Demczuk

Kelley Leadingham, MS
Senior Research Program Supervisor

Constantin Smit
Associate Staff Engineer

Julie Zeuch

Postdoctoral Research Fellows
Surgical Resident Researchers
Karim Ahmed, M.D.

Micah Belzberg, M.D.

Andrew Hersh

Andrew Luksic, M.D.

Landon Hansen, M.D.

Medical Students
Carly Weber-Levine

Vikas Vattipally

Patrick Kramer

Ritvik Jillala

Mustafa Najeed

Xihang Wang

Research Scientists
Siddharth Krishnan, MSE

Graduate Students
Max J. Kerensky
Ph.D. Candidate

Avisha Kumar
Ph.D. Candidate

Ruixing Liang
Ph.D. Candidate

Denis Routkevitch
M.D.-Ph.D. Candidate

Angelica F. Lopez
Ph.D. Candidate

Undergraduate Students
Jayvik Joshi

Annie Pan

Maya Sharma

Johnny Theodore

Zoe Soulé

Emily Baca

Jennifer Tang Cabrera

High School Students
Ben Bykov

Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab
Steven Babin, M.D., Ph.D.

Jeffrey Corgan, M.S.

David Gerke, M.S., M.B.A.

Nicholas Nowicki, M.S.

Paul Schuster, Ph.D.

Sonic Concepts, Inc.
Kyle Morrison, M.S.E.
President

Theresa Forseth
Corporate Vice President

Alex Castro
Electrical Engineer

Francisco Chavez
Engineering Manager

Albertus Kariko, M.S.
Director of Operations

Matt Veith
Project Engineer

Shawn Wilton
Senior Mechanical Engineer

Columbia University
Siddhesh Atul Gandhi

Shiva Letchumanan, M.S.

MCRA, LLC.
Tom McDougal

Former Team Members
Kimberly B. Ashayeri, M.D.
Surgical Fellow Researcher

Kunal Kotkar
M.S. Candidate

Mihir Adhikari
M.S. Candidate

Leonard Steger

Tolulope Awosika

Ann Liu, M.D.

Safwan Alomari, M.D.

Haley Abramson, Ph.D.

Molly Acord, M.S.
Biomedical Engineer at Sonosa Medical

Griffin Mess

Fariba Aghabaglou, Ph.D.

Jeffrey Ehresman, M.D.
Medical Residency at Barrow Neurological Institute

Jeong Hun (Jeff) Kim, M.S.
M.D./Ph.D. Student at the University of Illinois

Cindy Haynes

Tarana Parvez Kaovasia, M.S.
Ph.D. Student at the University of Michigan

Smruti Mahapatra, M.S.
R&D Engineer at Blackrock Microsystems

Ali Mohammadabadi, Ph.D.

Madison Norman

Subhiksha Somanathan, M.S.

Siya Zhang, M.S.
