Principal Investigator
Dr. Yeonsik Noh
Principle Investigator
Assistant Professor
College of Nursing
Electrical and Computer Engineering Department (joint)
Biomedical Engineering Department (adjunct)
University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Graduate Students
Abu Bony Amin, MS
ECE PhD Student
Abu Bony Amin is a PhD student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, joined in Fall 2021. Previously, he studied MS in Electrical Engineering at Florida Polytechnic University in Lakeland, FL, completing his BS in Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE) from the Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology (CUET) in Chittagong, Bangladesh. His Master's thesis was about developing configuration of CNT bundles to improve the performance of CNT based VLSI interconnect. His current research interest focuses on hardware design and firmware programming for biometric devices and circuits. Amin was the recipient of the Best Paper Award at IEEE UEMCON 2019, Columbia University, NY, USA. He is also a Graduate Student Member of the IEEE.
Ebenezer Asabre
ECE PhD Student
Ebenezer Asabre is a PhD student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, joined in Fall 2022. He studied his BS in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Kazan State Power Engineering University in Kazan, Russia. His thesis was about developing an automated device for testing printed circuit boards. Asabre was the recipient of the flagship Ghana Government Scholarship tenable in Russia from 2014 to 2019. Currently, his research focus is in the field of Embedded systems.
Sina Razaghi, MS
ECE PhD Student
Sina Razaghi is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, joined in Fall 2022. Previously, he studied MS in Electrical Engineering - Integrated Circuits at K. N. Toosi University of Technology. He also graduated from the same institute with a B.Sc. degree in Tehran, Iran. His Master's thesis was about designing and implementing a charge-based continuous-time ADC for biopotential signal recording systems. His current research interest focuses on mixed-signal circuit design and wearable sensors for biomedical applications. Sina is also a Graduate Student Member of the IEEE.
Kourosh Alimohammadbeik
Nursing PhD Student
Kourosh Alimohammadbeik is a nursing PhD student at the Elaine Marieb College of Nursing, University of Massachusetts-Amherst. He got his bachelor’s degree in nursing from Islamic Azad University in Iran. His research interest is digital health, and he has two patents in the medical area. Currently, he is working on Assessing a Home Healthcare Monitoring Platform Based on a Cloud Native Architecture in terms of usability as RA at UMASS Nursing Engineering Laboratory. Furthermore, he is TA in Preventive Care and Integrative Therapy course at UMass Amherst Center in Springfield. Kourosh is enthusiastic to become a professional nurse engineer and be a pioneer in this new field. He loves to walk, chat, and watch movies in his free time.
Undergraduate Students
Cynthia Lu
ECE Senior
Cynthia Lu is a senior electrical engineering student in the Commonwealth Honors College at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. For her honors thesis, she plans to investigate the possibility of using electrical impedance to measure body composition through an intrabody closed-loop circuit. On top of her studies, she holds a number of leadership positions on campus. She is a resident assistant (RA) in the residence halls, acts as the Membership Coordinator for Society of Women Engineers (SWE), and serves as an Engineer Peer to freshmen and transfer engineering students. Cynthia is passionate about promoting inclusivity and diversity in the engineering field.
Akshat Sahay
ECE Senior
Akshat is a senior Computer Engineering major at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His current research is on an underwater wearable motion analysis system. His areas of interests are embedded systems, wearable technology and PCB design.
Alumni
Alumni
Shiyang Wang, MS, Aug 2022
MS ECE Graduate
Shiyang Wang received his MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2022. Before starting his master's studies at UMass, he has been working on OpenShift/Kubernetes, Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems as Software Engineer at Red Hat. His work on developing a Cloud-native Health Monitoring System got published at IEEE EMBC 2022. Shiyang subsequently accepted a position of Software Engineer at Amazon Web Services.
Alumni
Uchechukwu David, MS, Aug 2021
MS ECE Graduate
Uchechukuwu David is currently working at Apple as an experienced software engineer with a focus on embedded systems and systems software development. He received his Master's degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He has industry-tested experience developing and deploying software and firmware products. David enjoys writing software that interacts with hardware.
Alumni
Pooja Patil, MS
MS ECE Graduate
Pooja