MRI Robot for Precision Deep Brain Stimulation Probe Placement in Conformal Brain Tumor Therapy

• Design prototype of MRI compatible concentric tubing robot and patient specific steerable needle for neurosurgery

• Modify the MRI Compatible neurosurgery robot for animal survival procedure

• Design and fabricate MRI compatible animal subject supporting assistant calibration device in animal surgery procedure

• Funded by National Institutes of Health (NIH) under the National Cancer Institute Grant R01-CA166379; Collaborator: General Electric (GE) Global Research, Albany Medical Center and Acoustic MedSystems Inc.

Modify 3D thermo-acoustic Comsol simulation of PZT transducer for interstitial ultrasound ablation using cluster calculation

Customized MRI Comparable Ultrasonic Piezoelectric Actuators Development and Optimization

• Modeling, design and fabricate plastic and optical MRI compatible piezoelectric motor and full-directional stack PZT motor

• Develop Comsol simulation for hollow cylindrical PZT motor pattern and surface traveling wave friction-drive motor FEM

• Develop and design device and experiment for surface roughness effect on motor operation

• Design and develop dynamic torque measuring system platform using NI DAQ card and LabView

Automated Coating of Cell Culture Surfaces with Growth Factor-releasing Polyelectrolyte Multilayers

• Develop industrial scale automated coating process and device and integrated system components

• Design industrial solution with system prototyping, hardware development, PLC programming and system UI design

• Producing industrial scale production of chemically defined, FGF2-releasing microbead cell culture substrates

• Sponsor: Advanced Regenerative Manufacturing Institute (ARMI)/BioFabUSA; Collaborator: Akron Biotech, RoosterBio and Allen-Bradley Rockwell Automation

A robot arm assisted medical device with ureteroscopy procedure, design and prototype the attachment for robotic arm to hold ureteroscope, and its matching device method for stabilizing and feeding flexible encoscope with robotic arm. This project is to control the scope motion to map the bladder which has applications in overactive bladder and bladder cancer.

Working for Professor Karp in Karp's Lab, leading the project of digital toilet project, focusing on designing new device to detect and monitor the stool status continuously. By building the stool log and compared to food log, it will help with IBD patients study and other bowel disease including IBS. Also this device will help pharmacy company to shrink the time period of developing new IBD drugs in clinical trials research phases.

• Development of a Digital Toilet for Establishing Biomarkers to Monitor and Treat IBD

• Design prototype of digital toilet and fabricate dummy toilet for experiments and data analysis to detect stool consistency

• Develop Python programs to perform image recognition including shape and color detection using OpenCV

• Apply IRB human experiments to set up base line of human stool consistency based on Bristol Stool Chart

• Design new automatic image data collecting system used in Diaper Genie, apply IRB of neonates for system training