People

Principal Investigator

Dr. Audrey Bowden, Principal Investigator Audrey K (Ellerbee) Bowden

Office: 316 Keck FEL Building

Phone: 615-343-4339

Email: a.bowden[at]vanderbilt.edu

Dr. Bowden is an Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering (BME), Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), Affiliate Faculty at Vanderbilt Institute of Global Health and Dorothy J. Wingfield Phillips Chancellor Faculty Fellow at Vanderbilt University. She received her BSE in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University, her PhD in BME from Duke University and completed her postdoctoral training in Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard University. During her career, Dr. Bowden served as an International Fellow at Ngee Ann Polytechnic in Singapore and as a Legislative Assistant in the United States Senate through the AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellows Program sponsored by the OSA and SPIE. She is a member of the OSA, a Senior Member of SPIE and is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Air Force Young Investigator Award, the NSF Career Award, the Hellman Faculty Scholars Award, and the Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Award. She is a former Associate Editor of IEEE Photonics Journal and a member of numerous professional committees. Her research interests include biomedical optics, microfluidics, and point of care diagnostics.

Current Lab Members

Anupam Kumar
Graduate student
Email: anupam.kumar@vanderbilt.edu
Research: Developing low-cost portable fNIR system.
Keywords: fNIR, cognitive monitoring, intraoperative detection

Yunqin Zhao
Graduate student
Email: yunqin.zhao@vanderbilt.edu
Research:
Keywords: OCT, embryology

Rachel Eimen
Graduate student
Email: rachel.l.eimen@vanderbilt.edu
Research: 3D bladder and hollow organ reconstruction from flexible endoscopic data
Keywords: 3D reconstruction, endoscopy, optical coherence tomography, white light microscopy

Seth Crawford
Graduate student
Email: seth.b.crawford@vanderbilt.edu
Research: Development of fNIRS headband system
Keywords: fNIRS, headband, 3D printing

Xiao Tang
Graduate student
Email: xiao.tang@vanderbilt.edu
Research: Development of a low-cost and low-resource OCT system
Keywords: OCT, ophthalmology, 3D imaging

Daniel Phan
Graduate student
Email: daniel.j.phan@vanderbilt.edu
Research:
Keywords:

Manasa Sripati
Research assistant
Email: manasa.sripati@vanderbilt.edu
Research: Low-cost NIRS development for compartment syndrome monitoring. Low-cost at-home chronic kidney disease monitoring system
Keywords: NIRS, 3D printing, OCT, injection molding

Mayaank Pillai
Undergraduate student
Email: mayaank.p.pillai@vanderbilt.edu
Research: Automated virtual 3D bladder reconstruction for post-cystoscopy analysis
Keywords: Endoscopy, cystoscopy, 3D reconstruction, computer vision

Haoli Yin
Undergraduate student
Email: haoli.yin@vanderbilt.edu
Research: Developing an automated specular reflection restoration technique to improve virtual 3D models created from endoscopy videos
Keywords: Endoscopy, computer vision, specular reflection removal

Greyson Wintergerst
Undergraduate student
Email: greyson.a.wintergerst@vanderbilt.edu
Research: Development of a robust dipstick urinalysis system with integrated dipstick evaluation and microscopic analysis
Keywords: Urinalysis, low-resource setting

Daniel Liu
Undergraduate student
Email: daniel.x.liu@vanderbilt.edu
Research: Low-cost fNIRS development for intraoperative cardiac surgery POD monitoring
Keywords: App development, prototype scaling, cognitive monitoring

Jacob Stoebner
Undergraduate student
Email: jacob.a.stoebner@vanderbilt.edu
Research: Development of low-cost digital refocusing microscope
Keywords: 3D printing, embryology

Ruijing (Elizabeth) Han
Undergraduate student
Email: ruijing.e.han@vanderbilt.edu
Research: Smartphone app development for cGvHD-related erythema assessment and monitoring
Keywords: Color correction, image/video processing, dermatology

Former Lab Members

Joseph Malone

Graduate student

Current position:

Camella Carleson

MSTP (MD/PhD student)

Current position:

Tiffany Le

Undergraduate student and Research assistant

Current position:

Halina Krzyzanowska

Research Assistant Professor

Current position:

Shuang (Grace) Chang

Graduate student

Current position:

Prasobh Padmanabhan

Postdoctoral scholar

Current position:

Micha Emmanual Faciolan Bermoy

Undergraduate student

Current position:

Allison (Ally) Schwarz

Undergraduate student

Current position:

Natalie Thomas

Undergraduate student

Current position:

Hongkai Jiang

Undergraduate student

Current position: Epic Systems

Phillip Yoon

Undergraduate student

Current position:

Iftak Hussain

Postdoctoral scholar

Current position:

Kara Semmen

Undergraduate student

Current position: University of Central Florida

Jose Gonzales Ramirez

Undergraduate student

Current position: St. Olaf College

Danielle Liu

MSTP (MD/PhD) student

Current position: Vanderbilt University

Harmony Bickerton

Undergraduate student

Current position: Vanderbilt University

Kevin Ifiora

Undergraduate student

Current position: Boston Consulting Group

Francis Tsow

Research professor

Current position: University of South Florida

Emily Kight

Graduate student

Current position: Nou Systems, Inc.

Behnam Tayebi

Postdoc

Current position: New York University

	Zhu Yue Postdoc Current position: Nanjing University of Science and Technology
	Morteza Khaleghi Postdoc Current position: facebook
	Noé Ortega-Quijano Postdoc Current position: Deneb Medical, S.L., Spain
	Lian Duan Postdoc Current position: Optical Engineer at DigiLens Inc.
	Abhijit Gudjarpadhye Postdoc Current position:
	Tobias Moritz Postdoc Current position: Novartis Institute for Biomedical Research
	Saara Khan Ph.D. Current position: Hardware at Facebook
	Kristen Lurie Ph.D. Current position: Software Engineer at Google
	Hee Yoon Lee Ph.D. Current position: Research Scientist at Facebook Reality Lab
	Tahereh Marvdashti Ph.D. Current position: Data Scientist at Wolters Kluwer Health
	Michael Leung Ph.D. Current position
	Gennifer Smith Ph.D. Current position: