Biomedical Ultrasound Research Group (BURG)

Current Graduate Students

Benny Antony
M.S. Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Virginia Tech (Aug 2022 - present)
B.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering, Vellore Institute of Technology, India (2022)

Haotian Chen
Ph.D. Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (2019 - present)
B.S. in Mechatronics, Zhejiang University (2019)

Jingyi Zuo
Ph.D. Student, Biomedical Engineering, Virginia Tech (Aug 2023 - present)
M.S. in Bioengineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (2023)
B.S. in Computer Science, University of California, Los Angeles (2021)
B.S. in Applied Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles (2021)

MD Rizwanul Kabir
Ph.D. Student (ICTAS Doctoral Scholar), Biomedical Engineering, Virginia Tech (Aug 2023 - present)
B.E. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Islamic University of Technology, Bangladesh (2021)

Yuanbin Zhu
Ph.D. Student, Biomedical Engineering, Virginia Tech (Aug 2023 - present)
M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Michigan (2023)
B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Automation, North China Electric Power University, China (2020)

Zixuan Tian
Ph.D. Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (Aug 2021 - present)
B.Eng. in Electronic Information Science and Technology, Fudan University, China (2021)

Current Undergraduate Students

Andrew Li
Undergraduate Student in Electrical and Computer Engineering, UIUC (Aug 2020 - present)

Connor Murphy
Undergraduate Student in Biomedical Engineering, Virginia Tech (Aug 2020 - present)

Former Postdoctoral Research Associate

• Quang Tran (2020-2021) –> Postdoc at Harvard Medical School –> Assistant Professor at Michigan Technological University
  

Former Graduate Students

• Karthik Nagabhushana (M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, UIUC, 2020-2021) –> Application Engineer at Texas Instruments
  M.S. Thesis: Simulating acoustic wave reflection, transmission, and scattering in k-Wave for quantitative ultrasound applications
• Yashuo Wu (M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, UIUC, 2019-2021) –> PhD Student at UC Irvine
  M.S. Thesis: Examining ultrasonic scattering mechanisms in fatty liver parenchyma via histopathological liver image analysis

Former Senior Undergraduate Thesis Students

• Zikui Wang (ECE@UIUC, 2022-2023) –> MS Student at Stanford
  Senior Thesis: Breast tumor diagnosis using class-activation-map-based convolutional neural network
• Churan He (ECE@UIUC, 2021) –> MSCS Student at Stanford; Software Engineer at NVIDIA
  Senior Thesis: Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease diagnosis using convolutional and recurrent neural networks on radiofrequency signal spectrograms
• Shi “Mike” Chen (ECE@UIUC, 2018-2019) –> MS Student at Stanford
  Senior Thesis: Transfer learning on ultrasound spectrograms of RF signals for diagnosing nonalcoholic fatty liver disease

Former Undergraduate Research Assistants

• Pablo Sanchez (ECE@UIUC, 2020-2022)
• Qiuyu “Tod” Wang (ECE@UIUC, 2020-2022)
• Rohan Mohta(ECE@UIUC, 2021-2022)
• Furkan Yazici (ECE@UIUC, 2021-2022)
• Qi Chen (ECE@UIUC, 2022)
• Calvin Lee (ECE@UIUC, 2022)
• Yu Li (ECE@UIUC, 2022)
• Elie Masanka (Statistics@UIUC, 2019-2021)
• Daniel Ahn (ECE@UIUC, 2021)
• Adam Morgan (ECE@UIUC, 2021)
• Rubin Zhou (ECE@UIUC, 2021)
• Aditya Umakanth (ECE@UIUC, 2019-2020)
• Leonardo Lopez (CS@UIUC, 2020)
• Ziyang Xu (ECE@UIUC, 2019)