People & Open Positions

People

Director: Meltem Izzetoglu, PhD

Dr. Izzetoglu earned her doctorate in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Drexel University, where she served as an associate research professor in the School of Biomedical Engineering. She was also an adjunct faculty member at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center in Bronx, NY, and in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rowan University in Glasboro, NJ.

Dr. Izzetoglu has served as the signal processing engineer of an interdisciplinary engineering and scientific team that designed and developed next generation, low cost, portable, wireless fNIRS designs, dynamic and realistic testing environments and fNIRS analysis algorithms that can be used in brain activity monitoring in healthy and diseased populations.

Collaborating with scientists, researchers, engineers, neuroscientists, psychologists, educators, clinicians, and nurses regionally, nationally and internationally, Dr. Izzetoglu has helped build bridges between experts in brain research to work together in finding solutions to unmet needs, research or clinical problems. Read more about her in this piece from Villanova Engineer magazine.

Current students:

Peter Rokowski, PhD student, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Christian Berger, CpE
Andrew DelDuca, CpE
Grace Embrey, EE
Owen Greene, EE
Christopher Jupina, EE
Sean Lane, CpE
Andrew Louie, Cpe
Courtney Rademacher, EE
Vasilios Seitaridis, CpE
Dat Tran CEE
Mark Willis, CpE
Brandon Won, CpE

Lab Alumni

Joseph Campbell '20 CpE
Henry Centeno '20 EE
Phillip Dantoin '20 EE
Kenneth Hoerle '20 CpE
Christopher Israel '20 EE
Katherine Min '20 EE
Robert Pink ' 20 CpE
Kathryn Sparango '20 EE
Kathryn Tsai ’20 CpE
Brianna Conte ’19 EE
Lei Wang '19, PhD student, School of Biomedical Engineering, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA
Gabriela Hernandez-Meza '17, PhD student, School of Biomedical Engineering, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA
Anootnara Talkul '12, PhD student, School of Biomedical Engineering, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA
Anna Mezagora '10, PhD student, School of Biomedical Engineering, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA

Open positions:

The Bio-SSA Lab is currently seeking master’s and PhD level students to work on topics involving optical brain imaging with applications to cognitive activity monitoring for human performance assessment in healthy and diseased/disabled populations and during learning and training for augmented cognition. Research will involve:

• Hardware and software development for next generation fNIRS systems
• Sensors and analysis methods
• Data collection and analysis with applications to cognitive activity and physiological brain monitoring