BAMM LABS : Graduate Researchers

BAMM Labs Graduate Researchers



Tayfun Vural	Tayfun Vural received his BS and MS degrees in Chemistry from Hacettepe University (Department Biochemistry Division), Turkey in 2008 and 2009, respectively. He is enrolled in PhD program in the same university in Biopolymeric Systems Research Group. His research interests are in the area of electrochemical biosensing, development of novel biosensors using nanomaterials, production of composite biomaterials, surface modification of biomaterials, plasma polymerization systems, atomic force microscopy, production and characterization of polymeric biomaterials to use in biotechnological applications. His studies are currently based on polymeric biorobotic systems.

Magesh Sadasivam	Magesh Sadasivam has a Dual Masters degree in Nanoscience by research and Nanotechnology. He is working in the team, developing point-of-care technologies for HIV diagnosis with Dr. Hadi Shafiee. He is interested in computer applications for medicine with a goal in developing novel technologies that will help the community at large.

Mehmet Yuksekkaya	MEHMET YUKSEKKAYA received his B.S. degree from Baskent University, Ankara, Turkey in 2002, and the M.S. degree from Middle East Technical University (METU), Ankara, Turkey, in 2005, both in Electrical and Electronics Engineering. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Baskent University. In 2001 he was a visiting researcher in Khury-Yakup's Group, Stanford University CA, USA where he worked on the characterization of Capacitive Micro-machined Ultrasonic Transducer (CMUT). In his graduate study he had worked on forward and inverse solutions of electrocardiography which includes source localization, impedance imaging, cardiac signal processing and cardiac mapping. In 2009, he joined the Ultramems Group in METU where he worked on characterization of Diamond CMUT and implemented driver circuits for Diamond CMUT arrays. Between 2002-2007 he was a Research Assistant in Baskent University Biomedical Engineering Department and since 2007 he is a Lecturer and Researcher at the same department. He has his own company which is mainly focused on biomedical signal/image processing, biomedical instrumentation research/development and has completed two projects funded by Republic of Turkey Ministry of Science, Industry and Technology. The projects are about design and implementation of high resolution pressure sensor matrix and sensor related electronics/software for signal accusations and analysis for a foot pressure mapping device. His current research work is about electrochemical pathogen detection for point of care and his visiting research in BAMM LAB is funded by The Scientific Technological Research Council of Turkey and Baskent University.

Hatice Imran Gungordu	Imran received both her M.Sc. (2012) and B.Sc. (2010) degree in Chemistry from Istanbul Technical University, Turkey. During her M.Sc. study, she was an exchange student at Faculty of Pharmacy/Ghent University, Belgium, where she focused on advanced drug delivery systems at Laboratory of Biochemistry and Physical Pharmacy. Her M.Sc. thesis topic was "The Physicochemical and Biological Evaluation of Cationic Polymer Carriers for Gene Delivery". Since her undergraduate years Imran was interested in discovering both the chemistry of natural products and the 'pharmacy' that exists in nature. In the first year of her master's study she was part of a project on isolation and characterization of anti-cancer and anti-oxidant drugs from Turkish endemic Salvia species. The delivery of these drugs with polymeric nano-carriers was the further step of this study. Imran has joined BAMM Labs team in December 2012 to study tissue engineering as well as its applications in drug delivery. She believes that the interdisciplinary and international environment at BAMM Labs will offer her a rich experience and pave her way to an academic career as well as serve the humanity.

Shruthi Rao	Shruthi Rao is a final year M.Tech (Genetic Engineering) student from SRM University, India. Her research work in BAMM labs is a part of her effort in working towards Masters thesis. She is working with Dr. Onur Tokel on various cutting edge projects involving microfluidics technology for diagnostic systems. I'm working on Lab on a chip diagnostic systems.

Aishwarya Subramanian	Aishwarya Subramanian is an MTech graduate in Industrial Biotechnology from SASTRA University, India. She is an adroit experimenter in molecular and microbiology techniques,cell culture techniques, Confocal microscopy and various computational biology tools. She has an undeterred passion of pursuing her PhD in molecular genetics with an interdisciplinary approach leading to biomedical applications, especially in diagnosis of dangerous diseases at early stages. She is currently working with Dr. Shu Qi Wang as a graduate researcher on fabrication of microfluidic point-of-care diagnostic devices as potential tool to identify bio-markers for clinical evaluation. She strongly believes her research experience at BAMM labs will bestow deep understanding of the field and will lay a proper groundwork for her research career.

Vidya Chamundeswari	Vidya Chamundeswari , is currently in her final year of Integrated Masters degree from SASTRA University, India with majors in Medical Nanotechnology. Her projects on carbonaceous nanomaterials during her undergraduate study, served as the platform for her to set foot into exploring the "nano-world". She was a recipient of the Indian Academy of Sciences fellowship in 2012 and during this period had worked at National Chemical Laboratory, Pune on Synthesis and Characterization of Anisotropic Nanomaterials. Vidya has joined BAMM lab as a research trainee and is working with Dr. Pu Chen. Her penchant to keep herself abreast of recent developments in the field has inspired her to broaden her horizons on various aspects of tissue engineering and micro fluidics. Her research interests range from carbonaceous nanomaterials to stem cell technology and tissue engineering. Her work here will focus on developing a new bottom up tissue engineering method based on multi-phase liquid cell culture system. Vidya intends to pursue her Doctorate studies in Nano-Sciences after completing her Masters degree.

Monty Jahangir	Monty graduated from Georgia Institute of Technology with a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering in 2009. He obtained an M.S. in Biotechnology from Georgetown University while working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). While at NIST, Monty worked on a novel microfluidic technology known as Gradient Elution Moving Boundary Electrophoresis (GEMBE) to characterize and quantify various analytes in solution based on their electro-osmotic properties. At BAMM Labs, Monty works with Dr. Shafiee on several projects related to HIV virus detection, HIV infected CD4+ cell characterization, and peritoneal disease detection.

Zhengyuan Luo	Zhengyuan Luo is a visiting PhD student from Xi'an Jiaotong University, China. He received B.S. degree in Thermal Energy Engineering from Xi'an Jiaotong University in 2009. From Sep. 2009 on, he is working as a PhD candidate in State Key Lab of Multiphase Flow in Power Engineering. His supervisor is Dr. Bofeng Bai, who is the director of Department of Thermal Engineering, School of Energy and Power Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University. His PhD project is focused on fluid mechanisms of multiphase flows in microfluidics for bioengineering applications. Now he is working on oocyte mechanical properties measured by using microfluidics and self-assembly for tissue engineering in Dr. Utkan Demirci's Lab. He is grateful for this opportunity supported by Dr. Utkan Demirci. His visiting is funded by the China Scholarship Council and Dr. Bofeng Bai's group in Xi'an Jiaotong University.
Antonio Carlos Sobieranski	Antonio Carlos Sobieranski is a Ph.D student in computer science from the Federal University of Parana, Brazil. Since 2006 he is a researcher at Lapix - Digital Image Processing and Computer Graphics Lab, from the Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil, working in many projects related to digital image processing and computer vision under supervision of Prof.Dr.rer.nat Aldo von Wangenheim. In 2010 he received his master degree in computer science from the Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil, where in 2011 his master's thesis has been awarded in 2nd place in the Master and Doctoral Thesis Contest of the year 2010 by the Brazilian Computer Society. His interest areas include image and video processing in general, image segmentation, variational approaches more specifically the Mumford-Shah model, pattern recognition and artificial intelligence in general, programming languages (C and C++) and Linux as operating system. His research here involves investigate means to improve resolution in images provided by point-of-a-care platforms.
Chu Hsiang Yu	Chu Hsiang Yu received his B.S. degree from the Kaohsiung Medical University in Taiwan. He is now a second year student in graduate school of Art and Science, Brandeis University, studying chemistry for his master degree. He is interested in drug delivery, pharmacokinetics, bioengineering and medical engineering projects that have a major global impact. He is currently working at BAMM Lab, under the supervision of Dr. Savas Tasoglu on paramagnetic levitational assembly of hydrogels. He wants to engage in different kinds of biomedical engineering fields before and after he finishes his master degree.

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