Resume
Academic Achievements
- Shirel Belilty and Kristen Smith were selected as recipients of the Dr. Norman R. Weldon Biomedical Engineering Undergraduate Student Research Internship for Summer 2025.
- Daniela Leizaola won first place in the BME Graduate Research Day Poster Presentation Competition.
- Aasma Dahal won 1st place in the BME Heart Day poster presentation competition.
- Our Optical Imaging Lab delivered four oral talks and presented six posters at the SPIE Photonics West 2025 conference.
- Shirel Belilty and Charles Policard were selected as CURE Researchers for Spring 2025; Karla Vasquez and Daniela Perez joined as CURE Trainees.
- Armando Caro and Daniela Leizaola's abstract was accepted for a poster presentation at the WOCNext 2025 conference.
- The lab has a new patent issued 'Skin Color Independent Flow-Based Diffuse Optical Imaging,' with Dr. Anuradha Godavarty and Dr. Kevin Leiva as co-inventors.
- Dr. Anuradha Godavarty was inducted as a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE).
Research Experience
- Lab members have been involved in various research projects, including the assessment of diabetic foot ulcers, vascular diagnostics, and small animal imaging.