2009/2010 HMDN Executive Board
Michael Shen, President
Status: Michael Shen is a fourth year biomedical engineering student minoring in mathematics at Johns Hopkins University
About: Michael has gained significant research experience in the lab of Dr. John Park at the National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke, focusing on the use of pseudotyped viruses to deliver gene therapy to malignant gliomas. He is currently researching under Dr. Yue in the Calcium Signals Lab at JHMI.
James Wang, Vice President and Business Plan Co-Coordinator
Status: James Wang is currently a Biomedical Engineering student at Johns Hopkins University and the Vice President of the Hopkins Medical Device Network.
About: As a member of the class of 2010, he has strived to make a mark on the Hopkins campus. His interest in business has led him to found and become president of the Hopkins Organization of Finance and Investment. Furthermore he is the president of the campus’s primary digital advertisement service, Hopkins Dynamic Advertising. With a specialization in technology and a passion for business, James Wang is also a member of the Alpha Kappa Psi business professional fraternity. Currently he is a BME design team leader developing an intervertebral decompression device for degenerative disc disease. His future plans include a possible career in either consulting or investment banking.
Aditya Polsani, Faculty Advisor
Status: Industrial Liaison Associate for the Whitaker Biomedical Engineering Institute and the Brain Science Institute
About: Aditya earned his Bachelors in Dental Surgery from Bapuji Dental College in India, and a Masters degree in Biotechnology from Johns Hopkins University.He currently plays a hands-on role in the day-to-day management of the new Center for Bioengineering Innovation & Design (CBID). At CBID, he is involved with recruiting and building biomedical design teams comprising of students, clinicians and engineers, sourcing medical device projects and managing intellectual property.
Vikram Aggarwal, M.S.E., Graduate Representative
Status: Vikram Aggarwal is a PhD candidate in biomedical engineering at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
About: Mr. Aggarwal received a B.ASc. in Computer Engineering from the University of Waterloo, Canada in 2005. His primary research interests include neuroprosthetics, Brain-Computer Interfaces, and biomedical instrumentation. His current focus is on developing cortical control algorithms for dexterous control of upper-limb neurprostheses. He is the co-founder of cVision Medical Solutions, a medical device startup that has developed an instrument to noninvasively measure central venous pressure using ultrasound.
Bryce Chiang, Graduate Representative and Webmaster
Status: Bryce Chiang is a combined BS/MSE student currently in his 5th year at Johns Hopkins University
About: Bryce’s undergraduate focus area was in computational biology. His graduate work will be in ECE. He currently works in the Vestibular Neuroengineering Lab in the Dept of Otolaryngology, JHMI. Bryce’s thesis work will revolve around the redesign of a 3-D vestibular prosthesis.
Andrew Wisneski, Secretary
Status: Andrew Wisneski is a third year biomedical engineering student focusing in microsensors and instrumentation.
About: Andrew is currently on a design team this year and continues to work in a cardiac physiology laboratory. He spent this past summer in Beijing, China learning Mandarin and researching heart disease and health care in China. Andrew also plays the violin in the Hopkins Symphony Orchestra.
Anshuman Gupta, Treasurer
Status: Anshuman Gupta is a third year biomedical engineering student
at Johns Hopkins University
About: Anshuman was a member of a design team that created a novel
device for bowel packing. Anshuman has also worked as an intern at a
start-up, Cobalt Biofuels, doing work on the effects of biofueling on
heat transfer as it relates to the distillation. Most recently, he has
done research at the UCSF Cardiology Department on parahisian atrial
tachycardia.
Brian Liu, Speaker Series/Logistics
Status: Brian Liu is a third year biomedical engineering student with a concentration in cell and tissue engineering at Johns Hopkins University. He is also pursuing a degree in Economics.
About: Brian’s research interests are in combination therapy and angiogenesis, and he has worked at the MD Anderson Cancer Center and Massachusetts General Hospital. He is currently researching in the Neuro-Oncology Surgical Outcomes lab under Drs. Alfred Quinones-Hinojosa and Debraj Mukherjee at JHMI and is also on the SurgyPack team.
Marlene Shi, Speaker Series/Logistics
Status: Marlene is a third year biomedical engineering student at Johns Hopkins University
About: Marlene worked with a team of seven others to design and create an articulated biter for neuroendoscopic surgery. She has previously worked as a marketing and finance intern at Fusion Specialties, a privately held manufacturing company in the fashion and mannequin production industry. Most recently, she interned in the Office of Economic Development of Denver. Marlene currently works in the Johns Hopkins Auditory Neurophysiology Lab directed by Dr. Xiaoqin Wang.
Sameer Manek, Business Plan Co-Coordinator
Status: Sameer Manek is a second year biomedical engineering undergraduate at Johns Hopkins University
About: Sameer and his design team recently created SurgyPack: a novel surgical device for bowel packing. He has been working in the Radiology division of the Institute for Cellular Engineering at JHMI testing new methods for cellular encapsulation, immunoprotection, and cell tracking of pancreatic islets for long-term treatment of type 1 diabetes.
Pooja Shah, Publicity
Status: Pooja is a second year biomedical engineering undergraduate at Johns Hopkins University
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Noah Greenbaum, Freshman Representative
Status: Noah is a first year biomedical engineering undergraduate at Johns Hopkins University
About: Noah has volunteered at the Tri-County Red Cross during the summer, and has a strong interest in economics and performance magic. He is also the Technology Chair for the JHU chapter of the Biomedical Engineering Society.
Carolina Cay, Freshman Representative
Status: Carolina Cay is a first year biomedical engineering student at Johns Hopkins University
About: Carolina has spend previous summers doing voluntary work at the University Hospital in Puerto Rico and working as a lab technician for a small company. She is interested in pursuing a career in medicine.