Chung Hyuk Park
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      • HUMAN-ROBOT INTERACTION (HRI) IN ASSISTIVE ROBOTICS
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    • Robots for Autistic Adolescents
    • AI-based IADL Analysis for AD/MCI Patients
    • Intelligent Haptic Teleoperation for Microrobots
    • Real-time Nerve Tissue Detection and Visualization
    • Robotic Surgery Assistance: Surgical Step Recognition & Prediction
    • Explainable AI for Neuroscience
    • Emotion detection with BCI
    • Music-based Interactive Robots for ASD
    • Robotic Learning
    • Medical VR Simulator
    • Haptic Telepresence
    • Assistive Robotics for VI
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Current Members @ ART-Med Lab.
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Graduate Research Assistants (PhD students)
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Baijun Xie
  Research interests: Human-Robot Interaction, Machine/Deep Learning, Multimodal communication.
 

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Mariia Sidulova
  Research Interests: Deep Learning, Neuro-science / Neural Engineering.
  Internship and ORISE fellowship at FDA.

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Zhenhao Zhao
  I begin my PhD journey in August 2022. My research focuses on the principle and the application of the various AI algorithms (such as deep learning, computer vision and machine learning, etc.). I really enjoy creating new AI models and solving the actual problem in various areas: medical scenarios, automatic driving/navigating, etc.  My personal website is https://zhenhao-zhao.netlify.app/.
Besides research, I am interested in playing the violin, rock climbing, and all kinds of sports!

Master Students
Sarah Malinowski
 
Research Interests: Prothetics, computer vision, entrepreneurship.
   CEO of Seamless Transition, LLC.

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 Sylvia Fresco
  ​I started my Masters program in Fall 2022 after finishing my undergraduate degree here at GW. My research focuses on creating an augmented reality game as an education tool for autistic children. Outside of my research, I have been part of the GW Sailing Team for my four years here.

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Krystian Burum
  
Research Interests: Imitation learning, ROS architecture and programming, machine learning


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Myungeun Lee
  Research Interests: pattern and speech recognition, image & video compressions, machine learning. 
  Hobbies: tennis, bike riding, watching movies
  Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzFAv-6C_eD5xyf3yW3ZnIA


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​Undergraduate Researchers
Arielle Maignan

Meilian Kurlas
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Joshua Iwu


Interns

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Alums of ART-Med Lab.
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Juyoun Park (PhD)
  • PhD, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
  • Current: Research Fellow, Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST)   

Won Hyong Lee (PhD)
  • PhD, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
  • Current: Assistant Professor, Handong Global University, Republic of Korea​​
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Jonathan ChongGang Kim (Ph.D.) received the BS, MS, and Ph.D. degrees in electrical and computer engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA in 2004, 2009, and 2014, respectively.  He developed a sonic signature and threat detection system using Gaussian mixture models (GMMs) and Hidden Markov models (HMMs).  He also developed a multimodal-multitemporal classifier for classifying the levels of emotional dimensions.  His research interests center on analyzing audio/speech signals, extracting features, and developing machine learning algorithms.  He is an author of many conference and journal papers.  His personal website can be found here (https://sites.google.com/site/gte111x/ home).  In his free time, Jonathan enjoys writing/recording music.  He has written about 50 songs in his life time, but none of them has become profitable yet.

Graduate Research Assistants
Hifza Javed (PhD, 2021)
  Research interests: Human-robot interaction, machine learning
  Currently at Honda Research.

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Rachael Beville (MS) is a current Master's student in Biomedical Engineering at the George Washington University. As a research assistant, Rachael is studying the use of robotic emotion and gesture expressions to stimulate emotional and social interaction in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Additionally, Rachael plans to use robotic motion learning to improve robotic therapy for children with ASD. Rachael has previously worked in the GW BioengineeringLaboratory for Nanomedicine and Tissue Engineering, under Dr. Lijie Grace Zhang. Rachael was also a 2015 Cherry Blossom Princess - a goodwill cultural ambassador during DC's annual Cherry Blossom Festival. Currently finishing her PhD at Max Planck Institute (MPI).
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rachaelbevill

Gary Milam Jr.
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Research interests: Deep learning, GPGPU, etc.
  Currently in Boston area.
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Shruty Balaji (MS Thesis student)
  Thesis Topic: Biomimetic animal robot control and motion learning.
  Currently workint at Tesla, Inc.
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Ria Kim (MS)


Hyunji Kim (MS)

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Mahsa Alborz (MS Thesis student)
​  Thesis Topic: Haptics and Phantom Experiments for Prothetics
  Currently working at FDA.

Sohee Park (MS)
  Research Interests: EEG, Computer vision
​  Currently pursuing her PhD at the Seoul National University.

Kerra Mercon (MS)
Kerra currently works in the health policy field applying her background in biomedical engineering to increase the accessibility and affordability of healthcare and medical products. Currently pursuing PhD.
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Research Assistants
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Justin Kim graduated B.S. in electrical engineering at University of Maryland College Park, James Clack School of Engineering. He worked as Faculty Assistant from University of Maryland College Park, Computational Sensorymotor System Lab where he conducted and published his research BatFlash: a Head-Mounted Led for Detecting Bat Echolocation, at IEEE BioCas 2016, Oct 2016.  Currently, He works as an Electrical Engineer at UI-International Circuit Designer. At the same time he works as Research Assistant at George Washington University, ASSISTIVE ROBOTICS & TELE -MEDICINE LAB. He design an algorithm that recognizes motions of a robot by using C++. The algorithm is based on an openCV library. Use machine learning techniques to improve accuracy and efficiency.

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So Hee Park recently graduated from George Washington University with a BS in Biomedical Engineering. She is currently working on creating a wireless wearable device that will be used by autistic children, in which they will be able to transfer their voice to a computer in real time. She is also conducting research on the brain computer interface that will differentiate emotions collected from Electroencephalography via Epoc+, in order to control interactive systems, such as assistive robotic systems. She was previously a lab technician assistant where she worked in a pre-clinical animal lab with rodents. So Hee is looking forward to continue her studies in medical imaging and anatomy, and also hopes to pursue a career in the medical field.

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Undergraduate Research Assistants
​Samuel Joseph Cowin is a Senior Electrical Engineering student at the George Washington University. Originally from Overland Park, Kansas, Samuel has joined Dr. Park's research lab working on wearable haptic feedback systems for medical purposes. Current work involves tracking device positioning and implementing force feedback systems. Samuel is interested in robotic systems and electronic design,
​and hopes to eventually get a graduate degree pursuing these fields. 

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/samuelcowin?trk=nav_responsive_tab_profile

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Srineil Nizambad is a third year undergraduate majoring in Biomedical Engineering within the School of Engineering and Applied Science at The George Washington University (GW). Srineil was awarded a 2016 GW Institute of Biomedical Engineering Fellowship to work with Professor Park in the Assistive Robotics and Telemedicine (Art-MED) lab to study body language and emotion through Microsoft Kinect motion sequence recordings of gestures and movements and to  help program Darwin Op2 to reconstruct human gestures. He is highly interested in neuro-behavioral analysis and in the potential clinical utility of the robotic framework for Autistic behavior. In the future, Srineil would like to attend medical school and is interested in pursuing neurology.

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Paul Azzi

Conor Sheridan 
 is a Junior undergraduate student majoring in Computer Science within the School of Engineering and Applied Science at the George Washington University. Originally from Westfield, New Jersey, Conor is working as a research assistant in Dr. Park's lab studying usage of robots to stimulate social interaction in children with Autism. Specifically, he is working on developing vocal recognition software for the system to allow it to become autonomous. Conor is interested in all facets of Compter Science, and is excited to continue his research.

Matthew Spadafora
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Irene Morchio

Interns
Benjamin Choi
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Alex Kimaivi
Luka Jeremic
Ben Bates

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Previous Members @ ARHI Lab.
Research Assistants
Tabassum Azad (RA): 
Education: B.S. NYIT Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research topic: Analysis and design of motions that can be used in a robotic framework to induce emotional response
                          from children with ASD and encourage social interactions.

Other Work and interests: Animation & graphics, Photography retouching, gaming.

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HyungJung Kim (RA): 
Research topic: user studies on behaviors of children with ASD on different robotic characters.
Role: UX/Visual design, Research
Education:  School of Visual Arts; Animation
                     NYU ; Interactive Telecommunications Program
Professional careers: UX designer at Samsung Electronics 2006- 2013
Hobby: sports, stock trading, drawing & painting
Website:  http://hyungjoongkim.com 

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JongWon Lee (RA): Jongwon Lee is a software engineer with master in Computer Engineering at Columbia University. He received his B.S from University of Texas at Austin in Computer Science graduating with honors in Dec 2011. He is currently working for Dr. Park at NYIT as a research Assistant, and have worked for Recognition Technologies, Inc., for the past six months. 
Jongwon is currently in charge of designing a system to build a rapport with autistic children. He deployed multi-threaded server in Java, which communicate with other devices such as Kinect System and microphone. He also implemented an iOS application such that the system can accumulate responses from autistic children through devices, and analyze the data to promote the reaction of children and find therapies to help the children.

During the internship in the Recognition Technologies, Jongwon participated in experiment to develop a new engine using different Natural Language Processing (NLP) algorithm, which gives comparable quality, but with more efficient order of magnitude. Besides, to enrich the training data, He revised automated scripts to parse two million words in each special field such as financial, medical, judicial texts, and analyze statistic results for those words.


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Yaojie Li (MS): Yaojie Li is a current Master's student in computer science at New York Institute of Technology. He received his B.S. from Southwest Jiao Tong University in material science and engineering in June 2009. He was previously a testing engineer at United Information Technology(China) from 2009 to 2013. As a research assistant,he is currently working with Dr.park to study robotic learning of gestures and movements, especially using the dynamic motion primitives(DMP) algorithms. He is also a super sports fan, especially basketball and soccer.

Ahmed Qureshi (RA)
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Fatimah Elsayed (MS): Works with Dr. Paolo Gasti, Dr. Chung Hyuk Park and Dr. Kiran Balagani at NYIT on Haptic-Based biometrics for user authentication, by collecting user data and measurable characteristics of the data.
Currently a Master's student in Computer Science at NYIT. She has a B.S. in Information Systems from Berkeley where she graduated with high honors (Summa Cum Laude). She received a Teaching Assistantship at NYIT in the Communication Arts department. In 2015 she was inducted into NYIT chapter Upsilon Pi Epsilon an international honor society for the Computing sciences.
In her spare time (which is something she has not had since starting graduate school) she loves painting, researching ancient proverbs from various cultures, playing and creating video games, and cosplaying at conventions.


Website www.fatimahelsayed.com
Twitter twitter.com/fatimahelsayed

Ibrahim Dawha (MS thesis)
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Kazi Raihan (U.RA): Kazi Raihan is a senior at NYIT working towards a Bachelor's degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering. He is currently developing an Android application that extracts the volume, frequency, and energy of a subject's voice and use that information to determine their emotional state. He was previously a candidate for the NSF's REU program at NYIT where, alongside Chris DelBello, he evaluated the energy consumption of a mobile device as it encrypted and sent files to a back-end server. He is interested in chip design, verification, and teaching and, in the future, hopes to pursue a Master's degree and work in industry. In his spare time, he enjoys running, playing video games, and engaging in various sports with his peers.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/pub/kazi-raihan/58/891/7b5

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Nicole Gutierrez (U.RA): Nicole Gutierrez is an undergraduate senior majoring in electrical and computer engineering at NYIT. She is currently working on developing an Android application that can determine the tempo of music for a robot platform. Previously, she developed an application to collect WiFi and magnetic field strengths for research in Indoor Localization schemes as an NSF REU fellow. Nicole is interested in new technologies, game development, and programming. Upon graduation, she is planning on studying virtual reality technology and working in industry. In her free time, she enjoys video games, boxing, and playing musical instruments.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/pub/nicole-gutierrez/67/664/5b7

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Ariana Rennie (U.RA): I am the elder sibling of a brother affected with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), pursuing a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering in the Dean of Engineering Honors Program at New York Institute of Technology. My ultimate goal is to improve the lives of individuals affected with ASD by enhancing their communication and social skills as well as their restricted behaviors through the manufacture of digital and robotic devices. Furthermore, I plan to increase the level of independence so that autistic individuals are able to perform every day skills with minimal assistance and effectively contribute to their communities.  As a Research Assistant, I am currently working with Dr. Park to program and design an environment  that is effective in stimulating the senses of an individual with ASD  as well as allowing the individual to engage with the robot. As most individuals with autism have several sensory issues that correlate with the following senses of sight, hearing, touch, taste, smell, vestibular and proprioception, I have based a scenario for the robot to go through the senses and display particular behaviors that an individual with ASD might show. The goal is to have the individual with ASD empathize and communicate with the robot as individuals with ASD have difficulty expressing emotions as well as socially interacting with others. I participate in numerous community service events such as Walk Now for Autism Speaks, East Meadow Little League Challenger Baseball, and My SHINE Equestrian Program. I enjoy swimming, horseback riding, signing songs (American Sign Language) and drawing.


Past Students
  • Ryan Nath, Neetha Pai, Jayahasan, Mithilesh Shivapuram