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Alumni Lab Members

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 We appreciate the work of all former members of the Wood Neuro Research Group.  We hope that your endeavors are going well and encourage you to keep us posted on your career journey.

Elizabeth Meinert-Spyker

Elizabeth Meinert-Spyker

Medical Student
SUNY Downstate College of Medicine

Former Project(s): "Linking Brain Diffusion Metrics to Cognition, Depression and Pain in SCD"

Junhao Lin (E 2025)

Alumni Masters Student Member, Biomedical Engineering

Former Project: “The neural basis of cognitive deficits in adults with SCD: a task-based fNIRS study,” Spring 2025. 

Yuxuan Gu

Yuxuan Gu (E 2025)

Doctoral Student, University of Pittsburgh

Former Project: “Deep Learning Based Resting State fMRI and structural MRI Analysis for Predicting the Progression of Sickle Cell Disease,” Spring 2025. 

Alexis Duong

Alexis Duong (E 2025)

Embedded Software Engineer, Draper

Former Project: “Designing fNIRS optode holder for curly, coarse hair,” from Summer 2022-Spring 2025.

Sharadhi Bharadwaj

Sharadhi Bharadwaj (E 2023)

Doctoral Student, Neuroscience, Mellon College of Science

Thesis Project: “Assessing Cortical Thickness and Volume in Adult Sickle Cell Disease Patients: A Study of Phenotypes and Sex Differences.”

Jiashu Ren

Jiashu Ren (E 2022)

Doctoral Student, Penn State University

Former Projects: “Using Machine Learning to Investigate Neural Correlates of Pain in Adults with Sickle Cell Disease,” December 2022.

Aditi Jain

Aditi Jain

Alumni, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Former Project: “Measuring Cerebral Blood Flow in Adults with Sickle Cell Disease with Diffuse Correlation Spectroscopy,” Summer - Fall 2024. 2024 SURA participant.

Received BS in BME and ECE in 2026.

Wanetta Osei-Bonsu

Wanetta Osei-Bonsu

Masters Student, Biomedical Engineering

Former Project: “Development of an EEG pipeline,” Fall 2023-Spring 2024.

Receieved BS in BME and ChemE in 2026.

Sena Flo

Sena Flo

Senior, Biomedical Engineering

Former Projects: “CAD Design for fNIRS Probe Aid Design” and “Statistical Analysis Quantifying Pain Assessment using QST and fNIRS,” Spring 2023- Summer 2023. 2023 SURA participant.

Anyssa Oden

Anyssa Oden

Masters Student, Biomedical Engineering

Former Projects: “Morphometric Analysis of Cerebral Vasculature,” Summer 2023, from Summer 2024. Participated in the 2023 Hillman Cancer Center Academy for underrepresented research scholars and the 2024 Â鶹¹ÙÍø SURF program.

Received BS in BME and MatSci in 2026.

Moaz Ibrahim

Moaz Ibrahim

Alumni Undergraduate Researcher, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Former Projects: “Grainger Causality Analysis with fMRI resting state dataset of Adults with Sickle Cell Disease,” Summer 2023-Summer 2024. Participated in the 2023 Pitt EXCEL Summer REU program for underrepresented research scholars.

Received BS from ECE at UPitt in 2025.

Anjali Angal-Balen

Anjali Angal-Balen

Alumni Undergraduate Researcher, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Former Project: “Using IMU sensor to detect movement and reduce noise in fNIRS data” (2023), Participated in the 2023 Pitt EXCEL Summer REU program for underrepresented research scholars.

Received BS in 2025 from UPitt ECE

Gabrielle Ibrahim

Undergraduate, Electrical and Computer Engineering