Team

SUMMER 2026 : (Left to right) Raafe Rahman, Aditya Joshi, Gloria Mahoro,  Claire Tam, Yasemin Ozkan-Aydin, Elif Pinar Aydin, Duolan Sheng, Azhang Nazaripouya, Asraf Siddiquee(Previous group photos)

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Principal Investigator

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  Yasemin Özkan-Aydın, PhD

  Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering

Graduate Students (PhD)

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  Abu Nayem Md. Asraf Siddiquee

  5th year PhD Student at Electrical Engineering

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  Nnamdi Chikere

  5th year PhD Student at Electrical Engineering

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  Elif Pinar Aydin

  3rd year PhD Student at Electrical Engineering

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  Azhang Nazaripouya

  2nd year PhD Student at Electrical Engineering

Undergraduate Students

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  Marina Amigon

  Sophomore Student @ EE, ND

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  Anika Joseph

  First Year Student @ CSE

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  Nicole Smola

  Sophomore Student @ Chemistry, Neuroscience and Behavior, ND

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  Rose Maese

  Sophomore Student @ Neuroscience and Behavior, ND

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  Matthew Rah

  Sophomore Student @ AME, ND

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  Sophia Fernandes Madruga

  Sophomore Student @ EE, ND

Summer Interns

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  Raafe Rahman

  Purdue University

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  Gloria Mahoro

  University of Notre Dame

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  Claire Tam

  University of Notre Dame

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  Pam (Lizilin) Liang

  University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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Alumni

Duolan Sheng (Stony Brook University)

Sean Even,  (EE, University of Notre Dame)

Murvet Seyma Ertas, (KTO Karatay University)

Aditya Joshi, (Trinity College Dublin)

Emma Swanson, (AME, University of Notre Dame )

Batyrkhan Alimzhanov, (AME, University of Notre Dame )

Jacob Kotz, (EE, University of Notre Dame )

Kieran Cosden, (EE, University of Notre Dame )

Winston Tumbelaka, (EE, University of Notre Dame )

Gus Hann, (EE, University of Notre Dame )

John Nisbet, (EE, University of Notre Dame )

Kevin Schaars, (EE, University of Notre Dame )

Ezekiel Akinsonu (Neuroscience, University of Notre Dame)

Brayden Kolb (Neuroscience, University of Notre Dame)

Ishmael Auqui, (EE, University of Notre Dame )

Valentine (Val) Coppo, (EE, University of Notre Dame)

Raafe Rahman, Purdue University

Robert John Urquhart (ETH,  BS. in University of Galway)

Duolan Sheng (University at Stony Brook)

Yuhan Zhu (EE, University of Notre Dame)

Vanessa Utama (EE, University of Notre Dame)

Grace Slear (EE, University of Notre Dame)

Jacob Oberrieder (EE, University of Notre Dame)

Kevin Vuong (EE, University of Notre Dame)

Minjae Kim (EE, University of Notre Dame)

Cole Descalzi (EE, University of Notre Dame)

Timothy Edwards (EE, University of Notre Dame)

Will Sinclair (EE, University of Notre Dame)

Martín Eduardo Castillo González (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile)

James Boumalhab (EE, University of Notre Dame)

Jinhyeok Song, (Robotics and Mechatronics Engineering, DGIST)

Raymond Frazee, (ME, Purdue Univ.)

Cora Keogh, (Mechatronics, Dublin City University)

Fernando Moreno, (ME, Polytechnic Univ - Puerto Rico)

Nagham Bou Hamdan, ( EE, Notre Dame University – Louaize)

Omer Kurkutlu, (Comp. Eng, UIC, PhD)

Priscilla Chou, (EE, University of Notre Dame) 

Kyle McKee, (EE, University of Notre Dame) 

Martin Rybertt,  (EE, Upenn, PhD) 

Josh Lehman, (EE, University of Notre Dame) 

Genevieve Linezer, (Biology, University of Notre Dame) 

Sofia Lozano Voticky, (BME, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile)

Leah Kern, (AME, University of Notre Dame) 

Abby Jordan, (EE, University of Notre Dame) 

John Simon McElroy, Naughton Fellow (University College Dublin, Ireland)

Ricardo Ortiz, (EE, University of Notre Dame) 

Frederick Bruce (AME, University of Notre Dame)

Deirdre Sheridan, (EE, University of Notre Dame)

Ben Colfer, (EE, University of Notre Dame)

Kate Hjorth (EE, University of Notre Dame)

Madeline Prugh (EE, University of Notre Dame)

Kunal Yadav (now at PhasorLab)

Josh Buckley, Naughton Fellow (BME, National University of Ireland, Galway)

Callie King  (EE, University of Notre Dame)