Principal Investigator: Nitish V. Thakor, PhD

Email: nitish[at]jhu[dot]edu
Dr. Nitish Thakor is a Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering and at Johns Hopkins University since 1983 and National University of Singapore since 2012. He is also the Founding Director of Singapore Institute for Neurotechnology at the National University of Singapore. His technical expertise is in the field of Neuroengineering, where he has pioneered many technologies for brain monitoring, implantable neurotechnologies, neuroprosthesis and brain-machine interface.
He has published over 400 refereed journal papers, has 17 US and international patents and co-founded 3 active companies. He was previously the Editor in Chief of IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, and currently the EIC of Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing (Springer/Nature). He is the Editor of an upcoming authoritative reference Handbook of Neuroengineering. Prof. Thakor is a recipient of the Technical Achievement Award (Neuroengineering) as well as the Academic Career Award from the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. He received a Research Career Development Award from the National Institutes of Health and a Presidential Young Investigator Award from the National Science Foundation, and is a Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering, Life Fellow of IEEE, Biomedical Engineering Society, and International Federation of Medical and Biological Engineering.
Graduate Students
Christopher Hunt
BME PhD Program chunt11[at]jhmi[dot]edu
Mark Iskarous
BME PhD Program miskaro1[at]jhu[dot]edu
Becca Greene
ECE PhD Program greener[at]jhu[dot]edu
Alexis Lowe
BME PhD Program alowe14[at]jhmi[dot]edu
Keqin (Catherine) Ding
BME PhD Program kding3[at]jhu[dot]edu
Sriramana Sankar
BME PhD Program ssankar6[at]jhu[dot]edu
Kiara Quinn
BME PhD Program kquinn20[at]jhu[dot]edu
Prachi Agarwal
ECE PhD Program pagarwa7[at]jhu[dot]edu
Denis Routkevitch
BME MD/PhD droutke1[at]jhu[dot]edu
Arik Slepyan
ECE PhD Program aslepya1[at]jhu[dot]edu
Autumn Williams
BME PhD Program awill296[at]jh[dot]edu
Avisha Kumar
ECE PhD Program akumar80[at]jhu[dot]edu
Max Kerensky
BME PhD Program mkerens1[at]jhu[dot]edu
Jacky Tian
BME MS Program
Yucheng Shen
BME MS Program yshen65[at]jhu[dot]edu
Ze Ou
BME BS/MS Program zou1[at]jhu[dot]edu
Postdoctoral and Research Fellows
Connor Glass
Research Fellow in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery cglass9[at]jhmi[dot]edu
Janaka Senarathna
Postdoc Fellow in Radiology dmmj.senarathna[at]gmail.com
Undergraduate Students
Rishi Sheth
Materials Science and Engineering Undergraduate rsheth5[at]jhu[dot]edu
Ruixiang Li
BME Undergraduate rli52[at]jhu[dot]edu
Collaborators
(in alphabetical order)
- Alcimar Soares, PhD
- Amir Manbachi, PhD
- Anastasios Bezerianos, PhD
- Andrei Dragomir, PhD
- Arvind Pathak, PhD
- Rahul Kaliki, PhD (Infinite Biomedical Technologies)
- Romer Geocadin, MD
- Sami Tuffaha, MD
- Sung-Min Cho, DO, MHS
- Tina Doshi, MD
Alumni
- Anil Maybhate
- Bo Hong
- Cameron Mcintyre
- Daliyang Ye
- David Sherman
- Hiren Modi
- Hyunchool Shin
- Jitendran Muthuswamy
- Joseph Paul
- Matthew Koenig
- Nada Boustany
- Phillippe Passeraub
- Qihong Wang
- Ramsey Kraya
- Shanbao Tong
- Xiaofeng Jia
- Youngseok Choi
- Joseph Betthauser
- Luke Osborn
- Guy Hotson
- Geoffrey Newman
- Ryan Smith
- Elliot Greenwald
- Rezina Siddique
- Xiaoxu Kang
- Heather Benz
- Suneil Hosmane
- Nan Li
- Mohsen Mollazadeh
- Vikram Aggarwal
- Abhishek Rege
- Kartikeya Murari
- Soumyadipta Acharya
- Nirveek Bhattacharjee
- Francesco Tenore
- Jacob Volgestein
- Yien-Che Tsai
- Yinuo Zeng
- Yunru Chen
- Yinghe Sun
- Avinash Sharma
- Darshini Balamurugan
- Harrison Nguyen
- Teja Kerri
- Sapna Kumar
- Damini Aggarwal
- Ernest So
- Gyorgy Levay
- Juhi Baskar
- Robert Beaulieu
- Hang Yu
- Matt Masters
- Dan Wu
- Matt Trachtenberg
- Brian Letzen
- Jai Madhok
- Alessandro Presacco
- Gracee Agrawal
- Girish Singhal
- Anirudda Chatterjee
- Yoonju Cho
- Ander Ramos
- Manisha Aggarwal
- Anshu Sarje
- Christian Sauer
- Vikram Shirgur
- Jaehyung Yoon
- Jason Brooke
- William Lau
- Mihir Naware
- Nelson Yang
- Chirag Patel
- Ming-Chieh Ding
- Oleg Gerovichav
- Grant Mulliken
- Abhishek Bandyopadhyay
- Paul George
- Jose Hagan
- Lee Johnson
- Ruchika Singhal
- Anshul Thakral
- Damian Tomlin
- Jeffrey Wallace
- Christopher Shallal
- Ying Ma
- Charles Hu
- Mitali Parmar
- Shrivats Iyer
- David Huberdeau
- Helen Schwerdt
- Suraag Patel
- Alan Siefert
- Yoshiaki Sono
- Anthony Au
- Jennifer Ferrigan
- Chris Lee
- Rob Rasmussen
- Yujie Wang
- Rajiv Mallipudi
- Kelvin Liang
- Kabilar Gunalan
- Brandon O'Rourke