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Research Scientist
Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
Durham, NC 27708 USA
- Career in research, visualization, data acquisition, and signal processing
- Engineering, research and development role in academia or industry
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Duke University (Durham, NC, USA)
Research Scientist, 2014 - present
- Managing clinical trials on ultrsound imaging in fetal and liver clinics
- Working with graduate students on NIH-funded research
- Contributed to several funded NIH grant applications
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Technical University of Denmark (DTU) (Kongens Lyngby, Denmark)
Postdoctoral Researcher, 2013 - 2014
- Developed OpenCL software for processing 3-D vector flow imaging ultrasound data on the GPU
- Presented a conference presentation, a poster, and proceedings (SPIE 2014 & 2015)
- Contributed as co-author to another peer-reviewed journal article
- Examined feasibility of transthoracic cardiac vector flow imaging on a phased-array probe
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Duke University (Durham, NC, USA)
Graduate Research and Teaching Assistant, 2005 - 2013
- PhD project using ultrasound to noninvasively measure the heart's mechanical properties
- Organized and conducted clinical studies at Duke University Medical Center
- Presented results in conferences and proceedings and via peer-reviewed journal articles
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Siemens Healthcare (Issaquah, WA, USA)
Graduate Student Research Intern, 2008
- Worked within a research and development team in a large corporation
- Added multiple focal zone ARFI excitation to research mode of Acuson S2000 ultrasound scanner
- Learned version control and MS Visual Studio IDE tools
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Duke University (Durham, NC, USA)
Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering, May 2013.
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The Ohio State University (OSU) (Columbus, OH, USA)
B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, June 2005.
- Co-Instructor, Instructor, Adv. Top. Lab for Grads in BME - Intro. to Electronics Biomedical Engineering 790L (2018, 2019)
- Instructor, Ultrasound module of Medical Physics 731 (2015, 2016)
- Guest lecturer, Biomedical Engineering 590 (2016)
- Co-Instructor, "International Summer School on Advanced Ultrasound Imaging", Technical University of Denmark (June 2015)
- 2019 Research Germinator Award, Duke Institute for Brain Sciences (DIBS) Ravikanth Velagapudi, PhD, Anesthesiology, School of Medicine; and William Huffman and David Bradway, PhD, Biomedical Engineering, Pratt School of Engineering. Targeting Autophagy with Non-Invasive Vagal Nerve Stimulation to Treat Delirium Superimposed on Dementia.
- Duke IDF #a3348ed7: "Split Aperture ARFI / SWEI"
- Duke IDF #540: "Visual Feedback for Improved Triggered Acquisitions for Ultrasound Imaging"
- Trahey, G., Long, W., Hollender, P., Bradway, D., Kakkad, V. and Bottenus, N., Duke University, 2021. Methods, systems and computer program products for triggering ultrasound data acquisition. U.S. Patent 10,969,487.
- Whitaker International Program Scholar (2013)
- National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow (2005-2008)
- Goldwater Research Scholar (2004-2005)
- Organized engineering design and build trip to Honduran orphanage (2004)
- Founded engineering community service group at Ohio State (2003)
- Early Career Professional Development in Medical Imaging Workshop, SPIE Medical Imaging 2015
- Associate Editor, Ultrasonic Imaging journal (2016-)
- Reviewer for the journals Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology, Ultrasonic Imaging, and IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging
- Advanced signal and imaging processing programming: Matlab and Python
- Tools and languages: Git, C/C++, OpenCL/CUDA, Docker, Linux
- Problem solving, signal and image analysis, data science, scientific computing, and experimental design
- Strong written and verbal communication, data visualization
- Successfully written fellowships, scholarships, proposals
- Personal projects in mobile and embedded systems: Arduino, Raspberry Pi
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