Brandon Badamtchian

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Brandon Badamtchian
Biomedical Engineering
bbadamtchian@ufl.edu

Brandon is a third-year biomedical engineering student specializing in neural engineering. He is researching the electrical properties of shape-memory polymer nerve cuff electrodes for use as neural implants. After graduating, Brandon plans to pursue an MD/PhD program.

Congressman Ted Yoho Visit

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Florida Congressman Ted Yoho came to visit UF and toured the BME labs.

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BMES 2018

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The Otto lab had a great time in Atlanta connecting with people and seeing cool science.

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Shout-out to some of our awesome undergrads that presented at the conference:

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Aaron Czeiszperger

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Aaron Czeiszperger
Biomedical Engineering

Aaron is a fifth year Biomedical Engineering student in the Combined Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree at the University of Florida and is seeking a minor in Electrical Engineering. His work is concentrated about the foreign body response to neural implants in the peripheral nervous system.

Adrienne Widener

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Adrienne Widener
Materials Science and Engineering
Adriennejan25@ufl.edu
Neural Interfaces and Drug Delivery

Adrienne is a fourth-year materials science and engineering student with a specialization in biomaterials and a minor in trumpet music performance. She is currently studying conductive polymers and their effect as a neural interface in the central nervous system. After graduating, Adrienne is interested in pursuing a PhD in Materials Science and Engineering

Dr. Scott Thourson (2018-2020)

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Dr. Scott Thourson
Post-Doc
Biomedical Engineering
sthourson@ufl.edu
Neural electrodes

Scott received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Bradley University in Peoria, IL in 2013. His undergraduate research studied how the concentration used for primary protein adsorption affected the binding efficiency of secondary analyze binding for biosensing applications. Scott also designed and tested custom MEMS devices to investigate silicon “micro-welding” or electric current-induced fusion of silicon-silicon surfaces. Scott completed his PhD in Bioengineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, GA in 2018. His graduate research aimed to develop flexible wire electrodes composed of conductive polymer to electrically interface with individual cells. Scott started his postdoctoral research in the Otto lab in Fall 2018.

Felicia Sedwick

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Felicia Sedwick
Biomedical Engineering

Felicia Sedwick is a fifth year biomedical engineering student at the University of Florida. She is working on the TEENI project and will be focusing on nerve regeneration through the threads.

Nicolas Kunigk

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Nicolas Kunigk
Biomedical Engineering

Nicolas Kunigk is a third year biomedical engineering student at the University of Florida with minors in computer science and bioinformatics. He plans on pursuing a PhD and is interested in studying neuroprosthetics.

Annie Gormaley

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Annie Gormaley
Biomedical Engineering
agormaley@ufl.edu

Anne is a fourth year biomedical engineering student at the University of Florida. Her work focuses on the evaluation of the foreign body response to neural implants in the peripheral nervous system.

Jesus Penaloza (2017-2019)

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Jesus Peñaloza
Masters Student
Biomedical Engineering
jesus.penalozaa@ufl.edu
LinkedIn Profile
Twitter (@jesusdpa1)
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Jesús Peñaloza received his B.S degree in Electronic Engineering at the University Nueva Esparta in Venezuela. After developing an intelligent helmet capable of detecting accidents and sending information to the authorities for a fast response in his B.S. degree, he decided to pursue a M.S degree in Biomedical Engineering at the University Simón Bolívar, and Advance Study Diplomas on Business Management and Innovation at the University Metropolitana. In these years he focused his research on epilepsy where he applied signal processing to extract features that could be used to develop fast detection systems that could help reduce the cost and time of diagnosis for patients in 3rd world countries.

Currently he is a 2nd year master student in the Biomedical Engineering department at the University Florida. In this moment he is working in two main projects. The first one, understanding the effect of waveforms in the protein adsorption layer at the electrode sites to evaluate the possibility of recovering the electrodes capability. The second one, developing image processing and computer vision algorithms to extract features to understand the relation between the neural system and type 1 diabetes.

He plans on pursuing a PhD and hopes to continue his learning and contribution on the neural engineering research area.

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