People – BISL

Steven Conolly

Montford G. Cook Endowed Chair

Professor, Department of Bioengineering, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, UC Berkeley

Research: Medical imaging with an emphasis on magnetics, including Magnetic Particle Imaging (MPI) and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), and magnetic susceptibility matching for improved MRI.

PhD Stanford University, Electrical Engineering, with Professor Albert Macovski
MS Stanford University, Electrical Engineering
BS Boston University, Electrical Engineering

Current Graduate Students

Justin Garlepp

PhD Student, EECS

MS UC Berkeley, EECS
BS UC Berkeley, Bioengineering

Arvind Swamynathan

PhD Student, EECS

BS UC Berkeley, Bioengineering

Benjamin Cary

Co-advised in Prof. Grigory Tikhomirov’s Lab

PhD Candidate, EECS

MEng MIT, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
BS MIT, Electrical Science and Engineering

Achyut Chebiyam

Masters Student, EECS

BS UC Berkeley, EECS
BS UC Berkeley, Engineering Physics

Post-Doctoral Fellows and Research Staff

Rahman Mohtasebzadeh, PhD

PhD University of South Carolina, Experimental Condensed Matter Physics

Yifeng Shi, PhD

Joint appointment with Prof. Grigory Tikhomirov’s Lab

PhD Georgia Institute of Technology, Chemical Engineering

Undergraduate Students

Divya Krishnaswamy
Olivia Guo
Sharini Rao
Cynthia Chio
Roy Yao
Sarah Le
Kimberly Weber
Tanish Swarnapuri
Yiwen Fu
Weining Wang
Ryan Black

Alumni of BISL

Lennart Gopfert, PhD

Visiting Scholar

Universität der Bundeswehr Hamburg

Ruhani Sagar, PhD

Postdoctoral Scholar

Now at Addition Therapeutics

Prithvish Ganguly

MEng, Bioengineering (’26)

Now at Fogarty Innovation

Shuqing Zhao

MEng, Bioengineering (’26)

Lucas Pierce

MEng, Materials Science (’26)

Now at Rio Tinto

Chinmoy Saayujya, PhD

PhD, EECS (’25)

Now at Apple Inc.

Ben Fellows, PhD

Postdoctoral Scholar

Now at Until Labs

Quincy L. Huynh, PhD

PhD, EECS (’23)

Now at Empo Health

Prashant Chandrasekharan, PhD

Postdoctoral Scholar

Now at National University of Singapore

Caylin Colson, PhD

PhD, Bioengineering (’22)

Now at Genedata

K. L. Barry Fung, PhD

PhD, Bioengineering (’22)

Now at iota Biosciences

Irati Rodrigo-Arrizabalaga, PhD

Postdoctoral Scholar

Now at La Universidad del País Vasco (EHU)

Yao Lu, PhD

Postdoctoral Scholar (’20)

Now Postdoc at UCSF Ophthalmology

Xinyi Y. Zhou, PhD

PhD, Bioengineering (’19)

Now at Triple Ring Technologies

Unai Ayucar Carbajo

Visiting Scholar (’19)

Now at Tecnun Universidad de Navarra, Spain

Zhi Wei Tay, PhD

PhD, Bioengineering (’18)

Now at SBIC A*STAR, Singapore

Bo Zheng, PhD

Lead Hardward Researcher
PhD, Bioengineering (’15)

Now at Philips Healthcare

Elaine Yu, PhD

PhD, Bioengineering (’17)

Now at iRhythm Technologies

Daniel Hensley, PhD

PhD, Bioengineering (’17)

Now at Edge Analytics

Ryan Orendorff, PhD

PhD, Bioengineering (’17)

Now at Facebook

Yueting Shi, PhD

Visiting PhD (’17)

Beijing Institute of Technology

Paul Keselman, PhD

PhD, Bioengineering (’16)

Now at University of Kansas Medical Center

Kuan Lu, PhD

PhD, Bioengineering (’15)

Now at Novo Nordisk

Nicole Hinterburger

Masters of Engineering (’15), TU Munich

Now at TÜV SÜD

Friso Heslinga

Masters of Engineering (’15), University of Twente

Now PhD Candidate at Eindhoven University of Technology

Justin Konkle, PhD

PhD, Bioengineering (’14)

Now at Magnetic Insight

Emine Saritas, PhD

Postdoctoral Scholar

Now Assistant Professor at Bilkent University

Laura Rose Croft, PhD

PhD, Bioengineering (’13)

Now at Booz Allen Hamilton

Gary Lee, PhD

PhD, Bioengineering (’12)

Now at Carl Zeiss Meditec

Patrick Goodwill, PhD

PhD, Bioengineering (’10)

Co-Founder, Magnetic Insight

Weiwen Cui – Undergraduate (’21), now at Johns Hopkins

Leyla Kabuli – Undergraduate (’21), now at UC Berkeley EECS

David Mai – Undergraduate (’19), now at UPenn

Dilveen Goraya – Undergraduate (’18), now at iRhythm

Kenneth Jeffris – Undergraduate (’18), now at ProteinSimple

Andrew Hild – Undergraduate (’17), now at Illumina

Aiswarya Akumalla – Undergraduate (’17), now at UCSD EE

Jason Luke – Undergraduate (’17), now at UCB MechE

Laura Taylor – Undergraduate (’17), now at HJ Science & Technology, inc.

Beliz Gunel – Undergraduate (’17), now at Stanford EE

Mindy Bishop – Undergraduate (’16), now at Harvard-MIT HST

Nitish Padmanaban – Undergraduate (’15), now at Stanford EE

Patricia Yen – Undergraduate (’14), now at MIT Material Science

Neerav Dixit – Undergraduate (’14), now at Stanford EE

Di Xiao – Undergraduate (’14), MS UMTC EE, now at Intel

Ada Li – Undergraduate (’14), now at MIT Sloan School of Management

Arkosnato Neogy – M.S. Electrical Engineering (’13), now at Booking.com

Daniel Price – Undergraduate (’13), MS BME/MBA Oxford, now CEO of Breadware

Wisely Yang – Undergraduate (’13), MS EE UCLA, now at Apple

Jeff McCormick – Undergraduate (’12), now at UCLA Biochemistry

Pamela Tiet, PhD – Undergraduate (’12), PhD City of Hope, now at UNC Pharmacy

George Zhang – Undergraduate (’12)

Kevin Phuong – Undergraduate (’11), MS EE Stanford, now at Google

Rohit Pidaparthi – Undergraduate (’10), MS EE Stanford, now at Google

Carlos Ruiz – Undergraduate (’10), MS BME UC Irvine, now at Intel

Ethan Johnson, PhD – Undergraduate (’09), PhD EE Stanford, now at Northwestern

Chen Lu, PhD – Undergraduate (’09), PhD EECS MIT, now at Waymo

Arbi Tamrazian – Undergraduate (’09), MS EE Stanford, now at DexYP