People

principal investigator

David A. Borton

PI, Assoc. Professor
School of Engineering
Carney Institute for Brain Science

Biomedical Engineer
VA RR&D, CfNN


technical and administrative staff

Aaron Gregoire

Technical research assistant


John Murphy

Senior Machinist


Alex Dawson-Elli

Research Software Engineer


postdoctoral fellows

Jonathan Calvert, Ph. D.

Postdoctoral Fellow, T32 Trainee


Projects:

phd students

Sophie Brown

Doctoral candidate in Biomedical Engineering


Projects:

Samuel Parker

Doctoral candidate in Biomedical Engineering


Projects:

Julia Gangemi

Ph.D. student in Biomedical Engineering


Indirah Conover

Ph.D. student in Neuroscience


undergraduate students

Xavier Lee

Research Assistant


Paul Ogan

Research Assistant


Charlie Levine

Research Assistant


Timothy Pyon

Research Assistant


Hanshal Goyal

Research Assistant


Serena Agarwal

Research Assistant


Alumni

Radu Darie, Ph. D. Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering (Senior Algorithms Engineer @ Torpedo Therapeutics)
Abby Drexler, M.S. M.S. in Biomedical Engineering
Shane Barys, M.S. M.S. in Biomedical Engineering
Anusha Allawala, Ph.D. Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering, 2023 (Postdoctoral Fellow, UCSF (Chang Lab))
Chris Black, Ph.D. Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering, 2023 (Postdoctoral Fellow, UCL (Browne Lab))
Priyanka Miranda, M.S. M.S. in Biomedical Engineering, 2023 (Software Developer at Abiomed)
Ivo Su B.S. in Computational Biology, 2023 (Medical Student, Brown University)
Lily Marie Del Valle, M.S. M.S. in Biomedical Engineering, 2023
Jarra Omar (Senior at Brown University)
Rebecca Poncin, CVT (QA/QI - Animal Program Manager)
Yunshu Fan, Ph.D. (Course Instructor, Brown University)
Ekta Tiwari, Ph.D.
Dmitrijs Celinskis, Ph.D. Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering, 2023 (Postdoc with Prof. Diane Lipscombe)
Ayan Waite (Doctoral student with Prof. Chris Rose)
Michaela Alarie (Doctoral student with Dr. Wael Asaad)
Stephanie Vartany (Computational Associate at the Broad Institute)
Victoria Vafaee
Adriel Barrios-Anderson (Neurosurgical Resident, University of Washington)
Andre Metzger
Sasha Aaronson
Elaina Atherton Ph.D. in Biotechnology (Scientist at Recursion Pharma)
Michelle Akerman
Nicole Provenza Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering (Postdoctoral Fellow at Baylor College of Medicine with Dr. Sheth)
Evan Dastin van Rijn B.S. Biomedical Engineering and Neuroscience (Ph.D. Program at University of Minnesota)
Emily Papiez B.S. in Neuroscience and Medical Anthropology (Clinical Assistant at Generation Next Fertility)
Maria Isabel Diaz (Masters program at Brown University)
David Xing Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering (Postdoc at Northwestern University with Prof. Andrew Miri)
Marc Powell Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering (CEO, Founder of ReachNeuro)
Sarah Branse B.S. Biomedical Engineering
Ryan Thorpe M.S. Biomedical Engineering (Ph.D. in Neuroscience, Brown University, Prof. Jones)
Tanaya Puranik M.S. Biomedical Engineering (Algorithm Developer at Hemex Health)
Corentin Puffay M.S. Biomedical Engineering (Ph.D. Student at EPFL)
Xiaoxiao Hou Ph.D. Electrical Engineering (Display Test Engineer at Apple, inc.)
Yinong Wang M.S. Biomedical Engineering (Research Scientist at 3M, Artificial Intelligence)
Sarah Syrop M.S. Biomedical Engineering (Phillips, Design engineering)
Johnny Ciancibello M.S. Biomedical Engineering (Feinstein Institute for Medical Research)
Yang Jiao M.S. Biomedical Engineering
Caleb Tulloss B.S. Electrical Engineering (Ph.D. student at Columbia)
Sarah Pratt B.S. Computer Science
Joseph Faller B.S. Chemistry (Now at McMaster-Carr)
Derrick Cheng B.S. Business, Entrepreneurship, and Organizations (Now Medical student at Brown)
Placid Unegbu B.S. Electrical Engineering (Now at U.Penn, M.S.)
Ben Ferleger B.S. Biomedical Engineering (Now Ph.D. student at UW Biorobotics Lab)
Omar Nema B.S. Biomedical Engineering (Product Analyst at Arcadia Healthcare Solutions)
Nicolas Gonzalez-Castro B.S. Bioengineering (CES, Medellin Colombia)
Matheus Ferreira Control Engineering (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)