Current Members | mehr-lab

PI:

Mohammad Mehrmohammadi

Assistant Professor
Department of Biomedical /Electrical and Computer Engineering
Wayne State University

Scientific Member

Karmanos Cancer Institute
818 W Hancock St., Room #2118
Detroit, MI 48201
Phone:(313) 577-8883
Fax: (313) 577-8333
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I am currently an Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Wayne State University with an Adjunct appointment in Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and an affiliated appointment as a scientific member at Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute. I received my B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology (Tehran, Iran), M.Sc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago, IL), and the Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin (Austin, TX). I am the recipient a number of awards such as Department of defense breakthrough award (breast cancer program – 2017), Wayne State college of engineering excellence in teaching award (2017), Karmanos Cancer Institute pilot research grant (2017), Wayne State Technology development incubtor award (2017), and travel award from Center for Nano & Molecular Science & Technology at UT Austin. I am currently a member of editorial board for a number of well-known journals including Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology, Austin Journal of Biomedical Engineering, Journal of Biomedical Engineering research, and SM Journal of Engineering Science. I also serve a technical committee member for Acoustical Society of America (ASA) and SPIE Medical Imaging conferences. I serves as a reviewer for a number of journals and conferences including: IEEE TUFFC, IEEE TMI, Laser Physics Letters, Medical Physics, Nanotechnology, Optics Express, Optics Letters, ASME, Ultrasonic Imaging, Nanotechnology, Photoacoustic, Ultrasonics, Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology, and Cancer Letters. I am a member of institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE, UFFC and EMBS society), International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE), World Molecular Imaging Society (WMIS), American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) and Sigma Xi. My area of interest includes biomedical applications of ultrasound ranging from novel functional, cellular and molecular ultrasound imaging to ultrasound tissue elastography. Within this scope, design, development and clinical validation of novel ultrasound modalities has been the focus of my research activities. In terms of research background, my doctoral research at Ultrasound Imaging and Therapeutics Laboratory at UT Austin was focused on design and development of novel ultrasound-based molecular imaging modalities such as Photoacoustic and Magneto-motive Ultrasound Imaging. Prior to joining WSU, I worked at Mayo Clinic College of Medicine (Rochester, Minnesota) as a Senior Research Fellow where his research was mostly focused on development and clinical evaluation of various ultrasound-based tissue elastography methods for applications such as bladder poor compliance diagnosis, and thyroid and breast cancer.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Karl Kratkiewicz, PhD

Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering, Wayne State University

Research interest: Ultrasound and Photoacoustic Tomography of Breast Cancer, Combined Ultrasound/Photoacoustic/Ablation Endoscopy

Yan Yan

Ph. D. in Biomedical Engineering, Wayne State University

Yan Yan joined this lab sin 2015 as a PhD student. His areas of interest include development of US and PA imaging system for specific applications in fetal and maternal care, image processing and data mining. He had strong back ground in Computer Science pattern recognition and computer graphics. He had his bachelors in Computer science and Telecommunication.

Research interest: Endocavity Ultrasound and Photoacoustic for fetal and maternal care.

Email-yyan2@wayne.edu

PhD. Students:

Nasim Basij

PhD Student, Biomedical Engineering, Wayne State University

I have completed my undergraduate and graduate program on Biomedical Engineering in Isfahan University in Iran. I have worked on variety biomedical images such as IVUS, breast MRI, karyotype Images and in different areas of research such as nanotechnology.

Research interest: Ultrasound and Photoacoustic Endoscopy

email.: n_basij@wayne.edu

Alex Pattyn

PhD Student, Biomedical Engineering, Wayne State University

Research interest: Acoustic and optical compensation for quantitative Photoacoustic Tomography

email: eu7209@wayne.edu

John Samuel

PhD Student, Biomedical Engineering, Wayne State University

My name is Samuel John. I finished my Batchelors degree in Electronics and instrumentation at SRM university, Kattankulathur. Currently I am doing my Master’s in Bio – medical engineering. My research is focused in imaging, instrumentation, robotics, and fuzzy logic. During my undergraduate days, I used to work in my Startup “ALLDUINO”, designing robots and arduino based projects. I like to design and build robots and electronic circuit boards. I enjoy programming in arduino, MATLAB etc. I am also the president of the Wayne State University SPIE Student chapter.

Research interest: Photoacousticc guided endovenous laser ablation.

Email: gd1321@wayne.edu

David Bustamante

PhD Student, Biomedical Engineering, Wayne State University

David joined the lab in 2021 as a PhD Student. He completed a bachelors and masters degree in biomedical engineering at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis from 2014-2020. His research focus was biomedical instrumentation, with a focus of applications to cardiac neurophysiology.

Masters Students:

Adeel Seddiqui

MSc in Biomedical Engineering

I have completed a BS in Biochemistry in Wayne State and researched in neurobiology and genetics. Currently I am interested in Biomedical Imaging and Instrumentation. In the future I want to apply what I have learned in BME to the field of medicine as a physician."

Research interest: Ultrasound and Photoacoustic for maternal care

email.: adeel.siddiqui@wayne.edu

Zack Mumm

MSc in Electrical and Computer Engineering

I received my Bachelor's of Science degree in Physics from Michigan State University. Since then, I have worked at a medical imaging start-up in system design and field service capacities. I plan to graduate with a Master's of Science in Electrical Engineering in the Fall of 2019 with a focus in signal and image processing as well as parallel systems.

Research interest: My research interests include using ultrasound and photoacoustic tomography to detect cancers in human tissue.

email.: zackmumm@wayne.edu

Tanwee Panse

MSc in Biomedical Engineering

Research interest: Small animal photoacoustic and fluorescence tomography

email.: TanweePanse@wayne.edu

Visiting Students:

Hamid Helmi

BSc in Neuroscience, University of Michigan

Undergraduate Students:

Rebecca John

Undergraduate student in Biomedical Engineering