{"id":1514,"date":"2014-04-23T09:42:10","date_gmt":"2014-04-23T09:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/batlab\/current-courses\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T14:35:51","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T14:35:51","slug":"personnel","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/lab.vanderbilt.edu\/zelik\/personnel\/","title":{"rendered":"Personnel"},"content":{"rendered":"

Principal Investigator<\/h2>\n

\"Karl_Zelik_Jan_2017_cropped\"Prof. Karl Zelik
\n<\/strong>Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering,
\nBiomedical Engineering, & Physical Medicine & Rehab
\nChief Scientific Officer, HeroWear<\/a>
\nBoard Member, American Bionics Project<\/a>
\nPrincipal, Zelik Biomech (Consulting)<\/a>
\nkarl.zelik [at] vanderbilt.edu<\/p>\n

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Affiliated Faculty<\/h2>\n

\"\"Dr. Gerasimos Bastas, MD, PhD
\n<\/strong>Staff Physician
\nTVHS Veteran Affairs Medical Center
\nKey Expertise: Prosthetics & Amputation-Related Care<\/p>\n

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\"Aaron_Yang_cropped\"Dr.\u00a0Aaron Yang, MD
\n<\/strong>Associate Professor of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
\nMedical Director, Musculoskeletal Medicine at Concierge Medicine
\nAssociate Program Director, Residency Training Program, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
\nKey Expertise: Non-Operative Management of Back Pain<\/p>\n

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\"Peter_Volgyesi\"Peter Volgyesi, MS<\/strong>
\nResearch Scientist
\nInstitute for Software Integrated Systems
\nKey Expertise: Sensor Fusion & Machine Learning
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

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Research\u00a0Staff<\/h2>\n

\"\"Katherine Rodzak<\/strong>
\nResearch Engineer and Coordinator
\nM.S. Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University
\nB.S. Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University<\/p>\n

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Recent PhD Students<\/h2>\n

\"\"Cameron Nurse
\n<\/strong>M.S. Bioengineering, Northeastern University
\nB.S. Biomedical Engineering, Boston University<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/strong>Paul Slaughter
\n<\/strong>NSF Graduate Research Fellow
\nB.S. Mechanical Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison<\/p>\n

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\"Rachel_Teater\"<\/p>\n

Rachel Teater
\n<\/strong>NSF Graduate Research Fellow
\nB.S. Biomedical Engineering,\u00a0The Ohio State University<\/p>\n

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Chase Mathews
\n<\/strong>B.S. Mechanical Engineering, Auburn University<\/p>\n

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MS Students<\/h2>\n

\"\"<\/a>George Skaff
\n<\/strong>B.S. Engineering, Harvey Mudd
\nB.A. Economics, Claremont McKenna College<\/p>\n

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BS Students<\/h2>\n

\"\"<\/a>Kaitlyn Hannon
\n<\/strong>Biomedical Engineering<\/p>\n

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Aidan Culp
\n<\/strong>Biomedical Engineering<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Alex Pearle
\n<\/strong>Computer Science<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Principal Investigator Prof. Karl Zelik Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, & Physical Medicine & Rehab Chief Scientific Officer, HeroWear Board Member, American Bionics Project Principal, Zelik Biomech (Consulting) karl.zelik [at] vanderbilt.edu   Affiliated Faculty Dr. Gerasimos Bastas, MD, PhD Staff Physician TVHS Veteran Affairs Medical Center Key Expertise: Prosthetics & Amputation-Related Care  …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":334,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1514","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lab.vanderbilt.edu\/zelik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lab.vanderbilt.edu\/zelik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lab.vanderbilt.edu\/zelik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lab.vanderbilt.edu\/zelik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lab.vanderbilt.edu\/zelik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1514"}],"version-history":[{"count":43,"href":"https:\/\/lab.vanderbilt.edu\/zelik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2746,"href":"https:\/\/lab.vanderbilt.edu\/zelik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1514\/revisions\/2746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lab.vanderbilt.edu\/zelik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lab.vanderbilt.edu\/zelik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}