People

Bright headshotMolly Bright, D.Phil. (Biography and CV)

Principal Investigator

 

 

PhD Students

 

Rebecca Clements

Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University

 

 

Jingxuan Gong

Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University

 

 

Kimberly Hemmerling

Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University

 

 

Hannah Johnson

Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University

 

 

Michelle Medina

Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University

 

 

Neha Reddy

Medical Scientist Training Program

Feinberg School of Medicine, Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University

 

Kristina Zvolanek

Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University

 

 

Andrew Vigotsky

Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University

Member of Apkarian Lab, Department of Physiology

 

Jasmine Vu

Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University

Member of Rad Lab, collaboration on fMRI after Deep Brain Stimulation

 

 

Masters Students


Noah Northrop

Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University

 


Zac Zou

Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University

 

 

Undergraduate Students

Sameer Faruquee – BME Summer Undergraduate Research Award, 2022

Elijah Huang – McCormick Summer Research Award, 2023

Airi Portalatin – WCAS Summer Grant, 2024

Claire Shen – Northwestern University Summer Undergraduate Research Grant, 2023

Interested in joining our lab for BME 399 or 499 credit? Get in touch!

 

 

 

Collaborators

 

Dr. Cesar Caballero-Gaudes

Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language

 

 

Stefano Moia

Postdoctoral Fellow, EPFL, Switzerland

 

 

Prof. Milap Sandhu

Shirley Ryan Ability Lab

Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Northwestern University

 

Prof. Todd Parrish

Radiology and Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University

 

 

Dr. Jennie Yufen Chen

Radiology, Northwestern University

 

 

Prof. Jules Dewald

Physical Therapy and Human Movement Sciences, Northwestern University

 

 

Prof. Laleh Rad

Biomedical Engineering and Radiology, Northwestern University

 

 

 

Past Members

 

Post-Doctoral
  • Rachael Stickland, PhD (2019–2022)
    • Subsequent position in data science at the Turing Institute, London, UK
  • Mark Hoggarth, DPT PhD (2019–2022)
    • Moved to faculty position at North Central College
  • Ranga Deshpande, PhD (2019)
    • Subsequent position at Brain and Spinal Cord Lab, MGH/Harvard

 

Doctoral
  • Stefano Moia, PhD – PhD, Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language, 2021
    • Thesis: Cerebrovascular reactivity mapping and its impact on BOLD fMRI of task-induced activity and rest
  • Yasser Falah, MBChB, MRCP, PhD – PhD, University of Nottingham, 2019
    • Thesis: Developing clinical applications of ultra-high-field perfusion imaging
  • Elena Kleban, PhD – PhD, University of Nottingham, 2017
    • Thesis: Quantifying venous oxygenation using Frequency Difference Mapping at 7T

 

Doctoral Rotation
  • Natalie Koh, PhD student, Northwestern University Interdepartmental Neuroscience program, WQ19
    • Evaluation of an automated pseudo-event detection approach to model HRF variability

 

Masters
  • Jingxuan Gong, BS/MS Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, 2023
    • Thesis: Hemodynamic timing in resting-state and breathing-task BOLD fMRI
  • Apoorva Ayyagari, MS Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, 2020
    • Thesis: Understanding noise in spinal cord BOLD fMRI data with a breath-hold paradigm to investigate feasibility of studying vascular reactivity
  • Vineet Sharma, MS Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, 2019

 

Staff
  • Max Wang, Research Technologist (2022-2023)

 

Undergraduate
  • Reem Khalid – Computer Science ’26, Northwestern University, 2023-2024
    •  NU Bioscientist Summer Research Award, 2023
  • Khoi Le – Neuroscience ’25, Northwestern University, 2022-2023
    • WCAS Summer Grant, 2022
    • NU Summer Undergraduate Research Grant, 2023
  • Mia Jeremiah – BME ’26, Northwestern University, 2023
    •  McCormick Summer Research Award, 2023
  • Jingxuan Gong – BME ’23, Northwestern University, 2019–2023
    • McCormick Summer Undergraduate Research Grant, 2021
    • Summer Undergraduate Research Grant, 2022
    • Mapping hemodynamic timing in resting-state and breath-hold fMRI data
  • Joshua Dean – BME ’23, Northwestern University, 2021-2023
    • McCormick Summer Undergraduate Research Grant, 2021
    • Summer Internship Grant Program, 2022
  • Charlotte Glanville – BME ’24, Northwestern University, 2022
    • Surrogate data for principled selection of data-driven nuisance regressors in Spinal Cord fMRI
  • Max Wang – BME ’22, Northwestern University, 2019-2022
    • BME Summer Undergraduate Research Award & Northwestern Undergraduate Research Grant, 2020
    • Validating a New Spinal Cord fMRI Algorithm
  • Harsh Khilwani – BME ’21 Northwestern University, 2020
    • MRI Modeling of Brain Physiology coding assignments
  • Catherine Chen – BME ’21 Northwestern University, 2020
    • MRI Modeling of Brain Physiology coding assignments
  • Ana Cornell – BME ’22 Northwestern University, 2019
    • McCormick Summer Undergraduate Research Award
    • Real-time feedback of hand-grip strength for fMRI studies in spinal cord injury
  • Aaron Shoemaker – BME ’19, Northwestern University, 2018
    • Design and development of the ANVILgrip – an MRI compatible hand-grip device
  • Navdeep Jabble – BMed Sci ’16, University of Nottingham, 2015-2016
    • Relating fatigue and cortical perfusion in Multiple Sclerosis