Meet the Team
Our team is made up of both faculty and students at Western Michigan University. We focus heavily on team based projects as every individual brings a special skill set to each project. Our lab is constantly growing and always looking for new teammates.
Dr. Massood Atashbar
Director
—Printed electronics and flexible hybrid electronics
Dr. Dinesh Maddipatla
Assistant Professor
—Flexible hybrid electronics, physical and chemical sensors, printed electronics, and wearable biosensors
Dr. Bradley Bazuin
Department Chair and Associate Professor
—Sensors, integrated circuits , and signal processing
Dr. Simin Masihi
Assistant Professor
—Smart sensors and structures, wearable biosensors, physiological signal processing, flexible hybrid electronics, antenna and propagation, RF circuits and systems
Dr. Daryl Lawson
Associate Professor, Department of Physical Therapy
—Electrical stimulation and healing diabetic foot ulcer
Tony Hanson
Teaching and Research Assistant, Ph.D. Student
—Sensor design, data acquisition methods, printed circuit design, 3D printing, and embedded systems
Valliammai Palaniappan
Teaching and Research Assistant, Ph.D. Candidate
—Flexible rechargeable lithium-ion batteries, smart triboelectric energy harvesters, rapid laser prototyping based flexible wearable pressure sensors
Masoud Panahi
Research Assistant, Ph.D. Candidate
—Wearable biosensors, machine learning and physiological signal processing
Manoj Emani
Teaching & Research Assistant, Ph.D. Candidate
—Printed electronics; fabricating, assembling & testing Li-ion batteries; and machine learning
Alimohammad Haji Adineh
Research Assistant, Ph.D. Student
—Wearable flexible sensors, triboelectric nanogenerators, and self-powered electronics
Sajjad Hajian
Ph.D. Student
—Flexible sensors, nanomaterials, wearable electronics, printed electronics, and machine learning
Abdulrahman Olalekan Yusuf
Ph.D. Student
—Wearable biosensors, signal processing, machine learning, and embedded system.
Minhaz Shahrier
MSc. Student
—Electroencephalogram
Hakan Dogdu
MSc. Student
—sensor design, hardware-accelerated image processing, embedded systems, and automation
Bharat Goel
MSc. Student
—Piezoelectric energy harvesting circuit topologies and piezoelectric materials
Senior Design Teams
A Novel Haptic System with Advanced Force Sensing Capabilities for Soft-Robotic Applications
Hakan Dogdu, Sergei Akhmatdinov, and Matthew Haley Fall 2023
Wireless Smart Plant Monitor
Jared Bell, Jared Hughes, and Issac Peterson, Spring 2022
A Screen-Printed Sensor to Detect Estrogen Levels in Liquids
Marie Bridges and Alex Whipple, Spring 2021
Flexible Wireless Electrocardiogram (ECG) Monitoring Device
Yonatan Beyene, Ruth Bahre, and Feysel Mohammed, Spring 2021
Flexible EEG Sensor
Mohit Patel, Adam Schuhknecht, and Evan Fadanelli, Spring 2021
Wireless Gait Monitoring & Pressure Distribution Device
Alex Bawilianthang, Syed Mustafa, and Jeremiah Tumminello, Fall 2020
Multichannel PPG System for Medical Applications
Jose Ignacio Rodriguez-Labra and Chris Kosik, Spring 2020
Wireless ECG (Electrocardiogram) Monitoring Device
Lucas Bonek, Stephen Fenech, and Nick Sapoznik, Fall 2019
Hand Motion Controlled Car using Flexible Hybrid Electronics
Devin Birchfield, Thomas Pasternak, and Xavier Jackson, Spring 2019
Music Keyboard Based on Flexible Hybrid Electronics
Tony Hanson, Kyle Mann, and Jesse Echtinaw, Spring 2018
Past Members and Where they are Now
- Sam Ali, Ph.D.
- Jose Ignacio Rodriguez-Labra, M.S., NextFlex
- Xingzhe Zhang, Ph.D.
- Arnesh Bose, Ph.D.
- Zeinab Ramshani, Ph.D.
- Sepehr Emamian, Ph.D.
- Amer Abdulmahdi Chlaihawi, Ph.D.
- John Manyala, Ph.D.
- Chi-Jung Cheng, Ph.D.
- Sridevi Krishnamurthy, Ph.D.
- Sai Guruva Reddy Avuthu, Ph.D.
- Ali Eshkeiti, Ph.D.
- Vikram Turkani, 2019 M.S. in Electrical Engineering, NovaCentrix
- Morteza Rezaei, M.S.
- Mohammed M. Ali, M.S.
- Farah Aljanabi, M.S.
- Douglas O. Downer, M.S.
- Chen-Tung Feng, M.S.
- Vidhyavathi Venkataraman, M.S.
- John Manyala, M.S.
- Akhil Moorthi, M.S.
- Shakil Hossain, M.S.
- Kevin Haisch, M.S.
- Anil Kumar Aparanji, M.S.
- Song Koh, M.S.
- Deep Banerji, M.S.
- Michael Simpeh, M.S.
- Sara Pashaie, M.S.
- Srikanth Singamaneni, M.S.
- Ruchi Sharma, M.S.
- Aditya Vijh, M.S.
- Yinyang Zhai, M.S.
- Chris Kosik, B.S.
- David J Hopwood, B.S.
- Mathew Andres, B.S.
- Rodneymakuto Wangalia, B.S.
- David Spillers, B.S.
- Steve Walke, B.S.
- Krispian Lawrence, B.S.
- Usman Muzaffar, B.S.
- Abhinav Duda, B.S.
- Abimbola Onafuwa, B.S.
- Naser Khan, B.S.
- Diep Dao, B.S.
- Faiz Syed, B.S.
- Rolando Garcia, B.S.
- Savannah Crooks, KAMSC Student
- Ed Fenwick, KAMSC Student
- Grey Braybrooks, KAMSC Student
- Sam Wachowski, KAMSC Student
- Tracy Broomell, KAMSC Student
- Tess Johnson, KAMSC Student