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Research lab of Dr. Beth A. Lopour
University of California, Irvine, Biomedical Engineering

 

Lopouratory at the Epilepsy Walk of Orange County, 2019

Principal Investigator

Beth A. Lopour, Ph.D.

Graduate Students

Derek Hu — Functional connectivity in infantile spasms

Trisha Mendoza — High frequency oscillations in epilepsy

Soudeh (Venus) Mostaghimi — Computational biomarkers of EEG in infantile spasms

Kavyakantha Remakanthakurup Sindhu — Measurement of high frequency oscillations in epilepsy

Blanca Romero Milà — Functional connectivity in infantile spasms and Lennox Gastaut Syndrome

Undergraduate Students

<coming soon!>

Collaborators

Yama Akbari, MD, PhD
UC Irvine Medical Center
Neurology

Shaun Hussain, MD
UCLA Medical Center
Pediatric Neurology, Epilepsy

Jack Lin, MD
UC Irvine Medical Center
Neurology, Epilepsy

Hernando Ombao, PhD
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Statistics
UC Irvine, Statistics

Daniel Shrey, MD
Children’s Hospital Orange County (CHOC)
Pediatric Neurology, Epilepsy

Former Trainees (updated Aug 2022)

Graduate Students:

  • Xueying Dai, MS (2021)
  • Seyede Mahya Safavi, PhD (2020); now an ASIC Design Engineer, Broadcom Inc.
  • Casey Trevino, MS (2020); now a Software Engineer, THINK Surgical
  • Sara Anis, MS (2020); now an Associate Algorithm Engineer, Masimo
  • Krit Charupanit, PhD (2019); now faculty at Prince of Songkla University, Thailand
  • Rachel J. Smith, PhD (June 2019); postdoctoral research at Johns Hopkins University; now an Assistant Professor at University of Alabama Birmingham
  • Michael Nunez, PhD (postdoctoral researcher); now Assistant Professor at University of Amsterdam
  • Garineh Shamirian, MS (2019)
  • Tian Lan, MS (June 2017); now a Research Engineer at The Brain Institute at Caltech/Chapman University
  • Vaibhav Bajaj, MS (June 2015); now a Research Scientist at DCN Dx
  • Walter Caliboso, MS (June 2015); now Systems Design Engineer at Philips

Undergraduate Students:

  • Christopher Phan, BS (2022); applying to medical school
  • Makenna Fong, BS (2021); now an Engineer at MicroVention-Terumo
  • Parker Goetz, BS (2021); now a Product Development Engineer at Advanced Brain Monitoring
  • Trisha Mendoza, BS (2020); now a PhD student at UC Irvine
  • Ehsan Alipourjeddi, BS (2020); now a PhD student at Columbia University
  • Nikole Chetty, BS (2020); now a PhD student at Carnegie Mellon University
  • Ninaz Valisharifabad, BS (2020); completed MS at UC Irvine
  • Robert Sabino, BS (2020)
  • Jeong Eun (Jessica) Lee, BS (June 2019); now an Electronic Design and Analysis Engineer at Boeing
  • Phuc (Catherine) To, BS (2019); completed MA in Asian American Studies at UCI; now Health program coordinator at Orange County Asian and Pacific Islander Alliance
  • Amanda Sugijoto, BS (June 2018); completed MS in Mechanical Engineering at UCLA; now R&D Engineer at Edwards Lifesciences
  • Karilyn Cuthbertson, BS (June 2015); now a Senior Manufacturing Engineer at SpyGlass Pharma, Inc.
  • Swaril Mathur, BS (June 2015); completed MS at Stanford University; now Head of Business Development at Axonics