Lab Members | The Neuromuscular Rehabilitation Engineering Laboratory (NREL)

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Faculty
	He (Helen) Huang, Ph. D., FAIMBE, FIEEE [CV] Jackson Family Distinguished Professor, UNC/NCSU Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering Director, Closed-Loop Engineering for Advanced Rehabilitation (CLEAR)
	Ming Liu, Ph.D. Research Assistant Professor, UNC/NCSU Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering
	I-Chieh (EJ) Lee, Ph.D. Research Scientist, UNC/NCSU Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering Ph.D. in Kinesiology/Cognitive Science, University of Georgia
Research Fellows
	Varun Nalam, Ph.D. Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering Arizona State University
	Woolim Hong, Ph.D. NIDILRR ARRT Fellow, Co-mentor with Dr. Jing Feng Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering Texas A&M University
	Joshua Tacca, Ph.D. Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering University of Colorado, Boulder
Graduate Students
Joseph Berman NIH Pre-doctoral Fellow, Ph.D. Student NC State Electrical and Computer Engineering	Wentao Liu Ph.D. Student NC State/UNC Biomedical Engineering	Abbas Alili Ph.D. Student NC State Electrical and Computer Engineering
Amirreza Naseri Ph.D. Student NC State/UNC Biomedical Engineering	Brendan Driscoll Ph.D. Student NC State Electrical and Computer Engineering	Austin Mituniewicz NSF Fellow; Ph.D. Student NC State/UNC Biomedical Engineering
John Patterson Ph.D. Student NC State Electrical and Computer Engineering
Current Undergraduate Students
Madeline Dudley UNC/NC State BME Project: Advancing Seamless User-Prosthesis Integration By Improving the Robot-to-Human Transparency.	Dezmun Roper-Bryant NC State ECE Project: Assisting Upper Limb Prosthesis with a Computer Vision System for Material Detection	Sydney Schwartz UNC/NC State BME Project: Shared Control of Robotic Prosthetic Ankle
Samuel Duncan UNC/NC State BME Project: Effects of a Mediolaterally Active Hip Exoskeleton on Hip Moment at Increased Step Widths
Alumni
Noah Rubin, Ph.D. (Staff Scientist, NIH) Qiang Zhang, Ph.D. (Assistant Prof., University of Alabama) Aaron Fleming, Ph.D. (Post-doc at Duke University) Robert Hinson, Ph.D. (UNC M.D./Ph.D. Program to complete MD training) Minhan Li, Ph.D. (Research Engineer, Argo AI) Bretta Fylstra, Ph.D., (Post-doc, Hanger Clinic) Xikai Tu, Ph.D. (Professor, Wuhan Institute of Technology, China) Boxuan Zhong, Ph.D. (Research Scientist, Facebook/Meta) Lizhi Pan, Ph.D. (Associate professor, Tianjin University, China) Yue Wen, Ph.D. (Post-doc, Shirley Ryan Ability Lab; Current Assistant Professor at the University of Central Florida) Andrea Brandt, Ph.D. (Editor, American Journal Experts) Stephanie Huang, Ph.D. (Research Engineer, Apple Inc.) Ting Zhang, Ph.D. (Professor, SooChow University, China) Wen Wu, Ph.D. (Post-doc, the University of Melbourne) Fan Zhang, Ph.D. (Post-doc, Kesseler Foundation) Dustin Crouch, Ph.D. (Assistant Professor, the University of Tennessee, Knoxville) Jun Liu, Ph.D. (Associate Professor, Wuhan Institute of Technology, China) Alex Boatwright, M.S. Biomedical Engineering Peter Bohlen, M.S. Biomedical Engineering Ding Wang, M.S. Biomedical Engineering Ashling Lupiani, M.S. Biomedical Engineering Sameer Upadhye, M.S., Mechanical Engineering Fiona Popp, M.S., Electrical Engineering (Dephy, Inc., Boston) Chinmay Shah, M.S., Mechanical Engineering (DEKA Inc) Jeff Olander, Ph.D. (Assistant Technical Supervisor, UNC at Chapel Hill) Vikas Shetty, M.S., Mechanical Engineering
Former Undergraduate Students (Most of our undergraduate students’ research was (is) supported by NSF REU, Abram Scholar, NC State Undergraduate Research Award, NAE Grant Challenge Scholarship)
Minh Tran (MAE), Vibhavari Vempala, Thomas Doman, Charles Humphries, Kellie Chieu, Ashley Perry, Davis Clairborne, Abby Thomas, Alyssa Cox, Shane King, Chrisopher Mehling, Benjamin Kantner, Shahryar Rashid, Caroline Li, Daniel Zurlo, Brian Kim, Nicholas Witham, Andrew Harmody, Victoria Ou, Ben Long, Ziwei Liu (ECE); Samuel Fox; Davis Ottesen; James Runda; Coral Austin; Semuel Sites; Luke Tucker; Jake Skigen; Anthony Kyu; Joshua Peck, Madeline Dudley, Albert Choi, Glen Brain, Jeff Bercaw, Sahil Sethi, Kaia Spero, Leilani Walker, David Du, Bryson Wicker, Michael Clark, Jack Schierlmann, Ryan Garry, Zhengduan Du, Kaitlynn Whimpenny, Ben Perrin, Marshall Harkrider, Jesse Carr, Yashica Paramkusham, Anthea Spirko (Cornell), Geigh Neill (CS), Nita Prabhu,