Announcements
Congratulations to all BME graduates!
The Graduation reception is held at the Academy Hall Auditorium on May 17, 2019 to celebrate the achievements of the students graduating this year. A total of 95 students are graduating with a BS, 12 with a Masters, and 12 PhDs are awarded. The number of doctoral students receiving degrees is at a record level and the number of BS degree recipients is among the highest that the department has had, reflecting the popularity of the program. In addition to honoring the graduating students, several awards are given: The Paul B. Daitch Memorial Award: Douglas M. Wich The Zelda & David G.
Students win NSF Graduate Fellowships
The NSF Graduate Research Fellowships were announced today and three current BME graduate students have been selected as winners of the NSF fellowships:
- Robert Culibrk (Mariah Hahn's lab)
- Jessica Funnell (Ryan Gilbert's lab)
- Samuel Stephen (Deepak Vashishth's lab)
Not only is receiving three NSF Fellowships the highest number that the department has had in many years, but BME students won half of the NSF GRFPs assigned to the entire institute!
This is an excellent reflection of the high quality of students joining the program and the mentoring that they receive.
In addition to current g
Jason Smith, a graduate student in Xavier Intes' lab, has been selected for the Eiffel scholarship which allows him to continue his doctoral research at an institution in France for a one year duration. Jason’s PhD project is highly interdisciplinary and aims at implementing structured light illumination for real time functional imaging in an endoscope imaging fused with molecular optical imaging (fluorescence lifetime imaging) and augmented with Deep learning for real time optical surgery.
Jessica Funnell, a graduate student in Dr. Ryan Gilbert's lab, has been awarded a New York State Fellowship in Spinal Cord Injury Research. This is a competitive fellowship where the application was peer reviewed. The fellowship covers tuition and salary for a three year period.
More information about the New York State Spinal Cord Injury Research program can be found here: https://www.wadsworth.org/extramural/spinalcord
Xavier Intes elected SPIE Fellow
Dr. Xavier Intes has been elected as a Fellow of SPIE. Dr. Intes is one of 88 new Fellows elected in 2019, which is a very distinguished class including three Nobel Prize winners. Fellows are Members of the Society who have made significant scientific and technical contributions in the multidisciplinary fields of optics, photonics, and imaging.
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, in Troy, NY is embarking on an ambitious expansion in Computational Sciences and Engineering research and education, with a focus on creating a research cluster in the area of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML). We seek applications from outstanding candidates at all ranks (assistant, associate, and full professor) who will build upon our existing strengths in these and related areas across the Schools of Science, Engineering, Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, Management, and Architecture.
The annual graduate symposium was held on Wednesday, January 9, 2019. The graduate students presented their research as either podium or poster presentation to their peers, the faculty, and a group of judges. The presentations were of very high quality reflecting the research performed by the students.
Several awards were presented to the students at the end of the symposium.
Five faculty members of the Biomedical Engineering Department were honored at the 2018 Trustee Celebration.
Specifically, the honored faculty were:
- Ryan Gilbert (promoted to Professor; appointed co-Editor in Chief of the journal Cells, Tissues, Organs)
- Juergen Hahn (appointed Section Editor in Chief of the journal Processes)
- Mariah Hahn (received School of Engineering 2018 Research Excellence Award)
- Xavier Intes (named a NIH chartered member)
- Ge Wang (received School of Engineering 2018 Outstanding Professor Award)
Congratulations to everyone!