Waqas Ali
Graduate Student, Electrical Engineering
Waqas did his undergrad in Electrical Engineering from
University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan in
2007. He taught at COMSATS Institute of Information
Technology in the same city before joining UTA in 2010 for his
Ph.D. His research is focused on the fabrication of
nano-devices for biomedical applications. He likes to play
cricket, badminton, and snooker and challenges himself with
weight training.
Waseem Asghar
Graduate Student, Electrical Engineering
Waseem is doing direct PhD at UTA since August 2008. He did his
B.S. in Electrical Engineering from University of Engineering
and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan. His areas of interest are
early detection of cancer at molecular and cellular scale using
solid-state nano and micropores.
He is a very good player of Soccer, Hockey and Squash. He is
also very good Swimmer and Athlete. He loves to travel to
different places and enjoys the company of his close friends.
Md. Motasim Bellah
Graduate Student, Electrical Engineering
Motasim completed his B.S. from Bangladesh University of
Engineering and Technology (BUET), Dhaka, Bangladesh, and is now
in direct Ph.D. at UTA.
He is devising new electrical interfaces to disease
biomarkers. He is a good player of table tennis (ping-pong)
and badminton. He also like music, fiction and math. He enjoys
exploring new places with friends.
Joe Billo
Graduate Student, Electrical Engineering
Joe completed his B.S. in Electrical Engineering at Southern
Methodist University in Dallas, TX. He joined UTA in January of
2010 and is currently working towards his M.S. in electrical
engineering. His academic interests lie in micro-scale and
nano-scale devices and systems.
When not at work or in class, Joe takes part in creative hobbies
such as cooking, painting, writing, and amateur programming. He
also enjoys comedic musicals and operas.
Arif Iftakher
Graduate Student, Electrical Engineering
Arif
did his BS in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and
Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh and joined us for his direct Ph.D.
His research is focused on modeling nano-scale interactions
and development of novel opto-to-electronic devices.
He
likes music, sports, hiking and is an avid photographer. He believes “Never limit the challenges, challenge the
limits".
Azhar Ilyas
Graduate Student, Electrical Engineering
Azhar
did his BS in Electrical Engineering from University of
Engineering and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan. He joined UTA
Electrical Engineering department in August 2009 in direct Ph.D.
program.
He is very interested in Applied Mathematics and is working on
applications of Artificial Photosynthesis in Photovoltaic cells. He is a very good player of
basketball. He is very athletic as well. He loves to play cards
with his friends in his spare time. He likes travelling and soft
rock.
Muhymin Islam
Graduate Student, Electrical Engineering
Muhymin is in direct Ph.D. program. Before joining us in August
2010, he completed his BS in Electrical Engineering from
Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET),
Dhaka, Bangladesh. His research focuses on biosensors for
molecular detection.
He never misses any opportunity to play football or cricket and
likes to explore new places. He loves music and books.
He believes, "Unless we dream how dream will come true - let’s
make our world better than the best."
Wintana Kahsai
Graduate Student, Bioengineering
Wintana is in 5 years Bioengineering program. She is very
interested in learning about different religions, spirituality,
and new edge teachings. "New Earth" is one of her favorite
books written by Eckhart Tolle. Unlike many bioengineers,
she is also interested in quantum physics which she thinks in
the future will align science and spirituality. Her
research spans many dimensions of self-assembled nano and
microfluidic structures. She is a big fun of reggae music. Her favorite singers
are Alpha Blondy, Gregory Isaac, and of course king of reggae,
Bob Marley, just to mention few.
Science without conscience is the soul's perdition. ~François
Rabelais, Pantagruel, 1572.
Nahum A. Torres
Graduate Student, Electrical Engineering
Nahum proudly served eight years in the US Army and continued
pursuing his education while serving. He received his B.S. in
Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Arlington
in 2009, and is continuing in direct Ph.D. program. He is
a MavGrad Engineering Fellow.
His area of interest is novel and efficient pathogen
detection systems (Bio-defense). He has a keen interest for
natural sciences and hence his love for animals and nature. He
has taken care of a variety of pets and currently maintains a
“Discus” fish (Symphysodon aequifasciatus) aquarium. He enjoys
music and the outdoors.
Wan Yuan
Graduate Student, Bioengineering
Wan got Bachelor’s degree in Medicine and Master’s degree in
Science from Southeast University in 2004 and 2007. His previous
research focused on polyacrylamide gel based DNA microarrays. He
joined UTA Bioengineering Department in August 2008 to pursue
Ph.D. He is studying basic theory regarding nanotechnology,
BioMEMS, and relevant experimental skills. He is using his
medical background to bring research in bioengineering very
close to the clinical medicine. His ultimate object is applying
biosensor to clinical detection and lab research.
Motto: Memory is the present that never
passes. A reminder that even from the darkest suffering can come
compassion, love and happiness. Movies, Music and Journey
are this quiet person’s lovers.
Chaudhry M A Arafat
Undergraduate Student,
Electrical Engineering
Arafat joined UTA in 2009 for his bachelor's degree in
Electrical Engineering. He is focused on developing algorithms
and hardware for electrical data acquisition issues at the
bio-nano interface, characterizing organic coatings of 3D
structure, and graphical rendering of scientific concepts. He
is an active member of PTK International Honor Society, Sigma Pi
Alpha Honors Community and has been on Dean’s List of TCC for
Outstanding Scholastic Achievement. He is also a winner of 2011
EE UG scholarship.
Reading poetry, historical books, and playing badminton is
among his extracurricular activities.
Raza Khan
Undergraduate Student,
Electrical Engineering
Raza started at UTA as an Honors student in 2008 and is pursuing
a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering. He has been
developing algorithms and assembling hardware for electrical
data acquisition issues at the bio-nano interface. He has
presented his work at BMES conference and is an active member of
HKN and Tau Beta Phi honor societies.
Uyen (Wenny) Pham
Undergraduate Student,
Bioengineering
Wenny is doing her 5 year Bioengineering (BS-to-MS) program.
She plans to do MD-PhD before she is 28.
Her areas of interest are tissue engineering, genetics, and
immunology. She hopes to continue research in nanomedicine
and nanosurgery.
She loves reading medical books, to learn about new
technologies, and travels for helping in third-world countries.
She believes that “the reason we fall down is to learn to pick
ourselves up again.” This is a quote that Dr. Spurlock,
her physics instructor at UTA told her when she decided to
change her major from pre-medicine to bioengineering.
Adegbenro Adewumi (Bill)
Undergraduate Student,
Electrical Engineering
Bill is currently working on his Bachelor's degree in Electrical
Engineering with a minor in mathematics. A native of
Texas, Bill is a member of Honors College and undertook a
calculus project in 2008. He plans to continue to Ph.D.
in Electrical Engineering. Bill worked with us on data
analysis from nano-electrode fabrication project. When not busy with academic and research work, Bill enjoys
Christian music, world politics and soccer.
Tahsin Ahmed
Graduate Student, Electrical Engineering
Tahsin worked with us for a year in 2010-11. He had done B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Bangladesh
University of Engineering and Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Tahsin worked on cantilever design and
fabrication before moving on to greener (and colder) pastures
north.
Debarshi (Dave) Banerjee
High School, Plano West Class of
2009
Dave worked in our lab during Summer of 2008 when he was a
senior at
West Plano Senior High. developed a software tool in
LabView for continuous acquisition of current-voltage data of
nano-devices and on-the-fly-plotting and comparison. He also
worked on PDMS microfluidics. A prolific violin player, he was
a member of Chamber Orchestra and of Greater Dallas Youth
Orchestra (GDYO).
Dave joined Texas A&M for his pre-med.
Hung Chang, Ph.D.
Research Scientist
Hung Chang graduated with his Ph.D. from Purdue University and
joined Arizona State University as a Research Assistant
Professor. He joined our group as a Research Scientist in
2009. His research is focused on Biomedical Devices,
Bioinstrumentation and Nano-Electro-Mechanical Systems (NEMS).
Swati Goyal
MS (Bioengineering)
Swati graduated with her degree in Dec 2009. Her
thesis
was on the development of low-abundant protein enrichment and
electrical detection of DNA.
She was our expert on polymer microfluidics among many other
interesting directions. She
is now with Life Technologies, CA.
Melissa Johnson
Undergraduate Student,
Biology
Melissa worked with us for about 2 years as a Biology major (with minor in Chemistry). She
developed virus imaging techniques and worked on vhip-based cell/molecular biology.
Rachel MacCarron
BS (Electrical Engineering)
Rachel worked in our lab in Summer 2009. She has graduated
with her Bachelor's degree in
Electrical Engineering from Texas Christian University.
She was a Project Manager of the TCU
Senior Design Team, and a member of the TCU Honors Program.
Her work on nanopore measurement system was presented at
Biomedical Engineering Society Annual Fall Scientific Meeting
2009 in Pittsburgh, PA.
Diane Manry
Senior, The Oakridge School
Diane worked with us in the Summer of 2009. A gifted
artist, she created many illustrations and sketches depicting
many of our research project. Her work was extensively
used in our outreach activities. She also helped with
Engineering summer camp demonstrations and presentations.
Diane is now a senior in high school at The Oakridge School
(Fall 2009). She will graduate in May of 2010 and hopes to
attend a liberal arts college in the northeast. She is a
very avid reader and can often be found perusing the aisles of
Barnes & Noble. An amateur artist, she enjoys whatever
time she can spend oil-painting while listening to music.
She also plays the piano and loves to ski and to travel anywhere
and everywhere. Interested in a wide variety of subjects, Diane
is uncertain about her future and is planning on spending
whatever free time she has this coming year exploring possible
career paths.
Elizabeth Markowitz
BS (Biology)
Elizabeth worked with us in Summer of 2009. She graduated
with her BS in Biology in December 2009. She has a particular interest
in genetics and cell communication and plans on pursuing these
studies in graduate school. Fluent in American Sign
Language, she has a particular interest in communication in
conjunction with her passion for the health field. A
Kansas native, she has lived in Dallas for five years and her
ultimate goal is to bring people and ideas together to improve
the quality of life.
Kelly McClurg
Graduate Student, MSE
Kelly graduated from Texas A&M University in May 2009 with a
B.S. in Biomedical Engineering. She worked with us for a
year as a MavGrad Engineering Fellow.
Her undergraduate research
emphasis was on biomaterials and tissue engineering. and she
developed electrically-addressable DNA-protein interaction
detection platform which could be used for high-throughput
screening.
Kelly enjoys outdoor activities including biking, swimming, and
hiking. She is a regular at IronMan
triathlons.
Mohammud Noor "Shawon"
MS (Electrical
Engineering)
Shawon finished his Masters with thesis in Electrical Engineering
in Dec 2009. His
thesis focused on electrical detection of
DNA. He was our resident expert on
Scanning electron Microscopy, FIB/E-beam Lithography and many other things.
Ahmed Shahid
MS (Bioengineering)
Ahmed did his
5-year BS/MS in Bioengineering. He worked on using
photosynthetic elements of plants as efficient
photo-to-electric converters. He also contributed in
developing new measurement algorithms.
He gained extensive expertise in circuit design, software
development for data acquisition/analysis and biochemistry.
Ehsan Syed
Graduate Student, Electrical Engineering
Ehsan worked on a joint project with Resonant Sensors Inc. (RSI)
during his Masters degree.
He had Bachelors in Engineering (major in Electrical and
Electronics) from Muffakham Jah College of Engineering and
Technology (MJCET) affiliated to Osmania University, Hyderabad,
India.
His research revolved around surface capture of biomarkers on
RSI's platform.
Priyanka Ramachandran
MS (Bioengineering)
Priyanka got her MS in Bioengineering in Dec 2009. Her
thesis work spanned around electronic detection of proteins.
She has taken up a research position at MD Anderson Cancer
Center in Houston.
She played an instrumental role in the lab outreach
activities giving talks and demonstrations at Summer camps for
school kids at UTA.
Mohammed W. Salem
BS (Electrical Engineering)
Muhammed was an undergraduate in
our lab in 2007-08. He developed basics experiments on PDMS based microfluidics.
He went on to become a
McNair Scholar
at UTA, and graduated
Cum Laude from in December 2008.
Rozita Shafabakhsh
Graduate Student, Bioengineering
Rozita joined UTA in August 2009 for her Masters in
Bioengineering. Her track of study is Instrumentation.
She did her B.S. in Electrical Engineering in her hometown,
Kerman, Iran.
She loves to travel, and learn about new cultures. Her
hobbies include painting, yoga, and playing backgammon.
She enjoys the company of her family and close friends.
Hassan Shah
MS (Material
Science & Engineering)
Hassan did his MS in
Materials Science and Engineering from
University of Delaware,
and spent a year in our lab as a Research Associate. He
developed new chip-based neural interfaces using
micro/nanofabrication approaches.
Madeline Teig
Undergraduate Student,
Bioengineering
Madeline
is currently an undergraduate working on her MS in the 5-year
Biomedical Engineering program. She worked in our lab
during Fall 2009 as a "Texas Youth in Technology" fellow.
She always been interested
in math and medicine, and wishes to continue her career as a
researcher.
She has a great interest in music by mixing and playing
piano. Some of Madeline’s hobbies are traveling, camping, and
playing tennis.
Divya Vidyala
Graduate Student, Bioengineering
Divya did her Bachelor of Technology in Biomedical Engineering
from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad,
Andhra Pradesh, India and joined UTA Bioengineering department
in Fall 2009. She defended her thesis in Summer of 2011
and graduated with a Master's degree.
Her thesis focused biocompatible nanolayered coatings of MEMS
structures.
Thesis.
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