Personnel
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Matthew Bacchetta |
H. William Scott, Jr. Chair in Surgery |
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Shunxing Bao |
Research Assistant Professor |
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Eric Barth |
Professor of Mechanical Engineering |
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R. Daniel Beauchamp |
J C Foshee Distinguished Professor of Surgery |
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Audrey Bowden |
Dorothy J Wingfield Phillips Chancellor Faculty Fellow
Areas of Research: Biomedical Imaging, Biophotonics, Image Processing, Imaging, Machine Learning |
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Daniel Brown |
Professor of Radiology and Biomedical Engineering |
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Brett Byram |
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering Areas of Research: Imaging |
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Lola B. Chambless |
Associate Professor of Neurological Surgery |
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Catie Chang |
Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Areas of Research: Biomedical Imaging, Image Processing |
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Rohan Chitale |
Assistant Professor of Neurological Surgery, Radiology and Radiological Sciences |
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Benoit M. Dawant |
Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Director of VISE VISE Steering Committee Chair and Center Director Areas of Research: Image Processing |
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Xiaoguang Dong |
Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering Areas of Research: Modeling, Surgery and Engineering, Surgical Robotics |
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Dario J. Englot |
Associate Professor of Neurological Surgery, Neurology, Radiology and Radiological Sciences, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Biomedical Engineering
- Director of Functional Neurosurgery Areas of Research: Imaging, Surgery and Engineering |
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J. Michael Fitzpatrick |
Professor of Computer Science, Emeritus |
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Joshua Gafford |
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering |
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Robert L. Galloway, Jr. |
Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Emeritus |
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Erin A Gillaspie |
Assistant Professor of Thoracic Surgery VISE Steering Committee Member |
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Michael Goldfarb |
H. Fort Flowers Professor of Mechanical Engineering |
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Will Grissom |
Associate professor of Biomedical Engineering Areas of Research: Biomedical Imaging, Biophotonics, Surgery and Engineering |
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S. Duke Herrell III |
Professor of Urologic Surgery VISE Steering Committee Member |
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Ryan Hsi |
Associate Professor, Department of Urology |
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Yuankai Huo |
Assistant Professor in Computer Science |
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Karen Joos |
Joseph and Barbara Ellis Professor of Ophthalmology |
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Hakmook Kang |
Associate Professor of Biostatistics |
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Nicholas Kavoussi |
Assistant Professor, Department of Urology
Areas of Research: Image-Guided Surgery |
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Soheil Kolouri |
Assistant Professor of Computer Science Areas of Research: Machine Learning |
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Bennett Landman |
Chair, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Areas of Research: Big Data, Image Processing, Imaging |
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Alexander Langerman |
Associate Professor of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery |
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Haoxiang Luo |
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering |
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Fabien Maldonado |
Professor of Medicine and Thoracic Surgery |
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Louise A. Mawn |
Associate Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences |
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Michael I. Miga |
Harvie Branscomb Professor,
Professor Biomedical Engineering Professor of Radiology Professor of Neurological Surgery VISE Steering Committee Member and Emeritus VISE Seminar Series Chair Areas of Research: Modeling |
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Jason Mitchell |
Research Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering Areas of Research: Surgery and Engineering |
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Victoria Morgan |
Professor of Radiology and Radiological Sciences |
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Daniel Moyer |
Assistant Professor Computer Science Areas of Research: Imaging, Machine Learning |
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Jack Noble |
Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Areas of Research: Image Processing |
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Keith Obstein |
Professor of Medicine VISE Steering Committee Member and Co-chair VISE Seminar Series Areas of Research: Robotics |
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Ipek Oguz |
Assistant Professor of Computer Science VISE Steering Committee Member and Co-chair VISE Seminar Series Areas of Research: Big Data, Biomedical Imaging, Biophotonics, Image Processing |
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Mikail Rubinov |
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
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Paul Russell |
Assistant Professor of
Otolaryngology |
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Kurt Schilling |
Research Assistant Professor |
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Nabil Simaan |
Professor of Mechanical Engineering Areas of Research: Robotics |
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Yuankai (Kenny) Tao |
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering Areas of Research: Bioinstrumentation, Biomedical Imaging, Biophotonics, Surgery and Engineering |
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Reid Thompson |
William F. Meacham Professor of Neurological Surgery |
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Eric Tkaczyk |
Director, Vanderbilt Dermatology Translational Research Clinic (VDTRC) |
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Michael Topf |
Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery |
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Pietro Valdastri |
Adjoint Professor of Mechanical Engineering Areas of Research: Robotics |
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Scott Webster |
Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering |
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Robert J. Webster III |
Richard A. Schroeder Professor in Mechanical Engineering, Professor of Electrical Engineering Professor of Otolaryngology, Urologic Surgery, Neurological Surgery, and Medicine VISE Steering Committee Member Areas of Research: Image-Guided Surgery, Robotics, Surgical Robotics |
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James Weimer |
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
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Thomas J. Withrow |
Associate Professor of the Practice of Mechanical Engineering Areas of Research: Surgery and Engineering |
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Jie Ying Wu |
Assistant Professor, Computer Science Areas of Research: Machine Learning, Robotics, Surgical Robotics |
| Staff | ||
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Justin Blaber | Software Engineer |
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Michelle Bukowski | Social Media Manager,
Communications,
Program Coordinator |
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Steve Damon | Senior Software Engineer |
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Braxton Heard | Research Assistant |
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Bohan Jiang | Research Assistant |
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Kaela Levine | Research Assistant
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Rui Li | Staff Engineer II |
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Daiwei David Lu | Research Assistant |
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Caroline Martin | Research Assistant |
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Karthik Ramadass | Staff Engineer and graduate student |
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Bill Rodriguez | Lab Manager |
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Robert Shults | Research Analyst |
| Post Docs | ||
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Ben Gold | Postdoctoral scholar |
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Abhijeet Gummadavelli | Postdoctoral researcher |
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Andrew Janson | Postdoctoral researcher |
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Prasobh Padmanabhan | Postdoctoral Researcher |
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Kyvia Pereira | Postdoctoral Researcher |
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Francois Rheault | Postdoctoral researcher |
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Jorge Salas | Postdoctoral researcher |
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Eric Tang | Postdoctoral Scholar |
| Graduate Students | ||
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Ali Abbasi | Graduate student |
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Ayberk Acar | Graduate Student |
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Haley Adams | Graduate Student |
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Elan Z. Ahronovich | Research Assistant |
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Behnaz Akbarian | Graduate Student |
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Jumanh Atoum | Graduate Student |
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Rueben Banalagay | Graduate student |
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Roza Gunes Bayrak | Graduate student |
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Erin Bratu | Graduate Student |
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Piper Cannon | Graduate Student |
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Grace (Shuang) Chang | Graduate Student |
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Peter Connor | Graduate Student |
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Seth Crawford | Graduate Student |
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Cathy (Can) Cui | Graduate student |
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Kendra Davidson | Graduate Student |
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Ruining Deng | Graduate Student |
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Derek Doss | MD/PhD in Biomedical Engineering |
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Jesse d’Almeida | Graduate Student |
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Rachel Eimen | Graduate student |
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Tayfun Efe Ertop | Graduate student |
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Daniel Esser | Graduate student |
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Yubo Fan | Graduate Student |
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Kyle Fuxa | Graduate Student |
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James C. Gallentine | Graduate Student |
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Chenyu Gao | Graduate Student |
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Sarah Garrow | |
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Sarah Goodale | Graduate student |
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Abby Grillo | Graduate Student |
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Samir Gupta | Master's Student |
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Jintong Han | Master's Student |
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Joshua Hauser | Master's Student |
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Rachel Hecht | Graduate student |
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Daniela Hernandez Duque | Graduate student |
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Nhung Hoang | Graduate Student |
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Dewei Hu | Graduate student |
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Graham Johnson | Graduate student |
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Garrison Johnston | Graduate student |
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Praitayini Kanakaraj | Graduate student |
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Nazirah Mohd Khairi | Graduate student |
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Christopher Khan | Graduate student |
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Mohammad Mahmudur Rahman Khan | Graduate Student |
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Michael Kim | Graduate Student |
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Aravind Krishnan | Graduate Student |
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Anupam Kumar | Graduate student |
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Kathleen Larson | Graduate student
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Jared Lawson | Graduate Student |
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Ho Hin Peter Lee | Graduate Student |
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Hao Li | Graduate student |
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Thomas Li | Graduate student |
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Yizhou Li | Masters Student |
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Han Liu | Graduate student |
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Quan Liu | Graduate student |
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Ziteng Liu | Graduate student |
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Celia Maiorano | Graduate Student |
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Joseph D. Malone | Graduate student |
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Hannah Mason | Graduate Student |
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Emily McCabe | Graduate Student |
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Miroslava Migovich | Graduate student |
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Nancy Newlin | Graduate Student |
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Adithya Pamulaparthi | Master's Student |
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Preston Pan | Graduate Student |
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Jack Peters | Graduate Student |
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Haatef Pourmotabbed | Graduate Student |
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Karthik Ramadass | Staff Engineer and graduate student |
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Lucas Remedios | Graduate Student |
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Morgan Ringel | Graduate student |
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Kimberly Rogge-Obando | Graduate student |
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Lucas Sainburg | Graduate Student |
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Neda Sardaripour | Graduate Student |
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Siegfried Schlunk | Graduate student |
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Frankangel Servin | Graduate student |
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Ashkan Shahbazi | Graduate Student |
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Neel Shihora | Graduate student |
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Jason Shrand | Graduate Student |
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Dingjie Su | Graduate Student |
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Yehyun Suh | Graduate Student |
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Yucheng Tang | Graduate student |
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Shannon Taylor | Graduate Student |
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Rachel Teater | Graduate student |
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Huy Tran | Graduate Student |
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Emelina Vienneau | Graduate student |
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Shiyu Wang | Graduate Student |
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Jacob Watson | |
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Abbie Weeks | Graduate student |
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Bowen Xiang | Graduate Student |
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Boyang Xiao | Graduate Student |
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Kaiwen Xu | Graduate student |
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Simon Hao Yang | Graduate Student |
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Qi Yang | Graduate student |
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Tianyuan Yao | Graduate student |
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Xing Yao | Graduate Student |
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Ahmet Yildiz | Graduate Student |
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Xin Yu | Graduate Student |
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Shengchao Zhang | Graduate student |
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Yike Nicole Zhang | Graduate Student |
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Yunqin Zhao | Graduate Student |
| Undergraduate Students | ||
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Shannon Alptekin | Undergraduate student |
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Kelsey Corwen | Undergraduate Student |
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Katelyn Craft | Undergraduate Student |
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Caitlin Grogan | Undergraduate student |
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Yuesheng Hao | Undergraduate Student |
| Kush Hari | Undergraduate student |
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Andrew Haworth | Undergraduate Student |
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Jordyn Herrington | Undergraduate Student |
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Aarushi Negi | Undergraduate student |
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Ethan Nguyen | Undergraduate student |
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Rebecca Pan | Undergraduate student |
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Shreya Shrestha | Undergraduate Student |
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Mariana Smith | Undergraduate student |
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Alexander Stabile | Undergraduate student |
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Olivia Tang | Undergraduate Student |
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Madison Veliky | Undergraduate student |
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Stanley Vinet | Undergraduate student |
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Kate Wang | Undergraduate Student
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Rui Wang | Undergraduate Student |
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Yifan Willaim Wu | Undergraduate student |
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Zihao Wu | Undergraduate student |
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Rui “Shirley” Xu | Undergraduate student |
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Hongyi (Leo) Yang | Undergraduate student |
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Tian Yu | Undergraduate |
| Alumni/ae | ||
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Albert Attia | Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology and Neurosurgery |
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Colette Abah | Alumna |
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Sumit Tarsem Agarwal | Alumnus |
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Nafis Ahmed | Alumnus |
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Ghassan Alduraibi | Undergraduate student |
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Pablo Arturo Alvarez | Alumnus |
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Stephanie Amack | Alumna |
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Ernar Amanov | Alumnus |
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Patrick Anderson | Alumnus |
| Andrew Asman | Alumnus |
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Yigit Atay | Alumnus |
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Andrea Bajo | Alumnus |
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Ramya Balachandran | Alumna |
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Marco Beccani | Alumnus |
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Oscar Benavides | Alumnus |
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Lukas Berglund | Alumnus |
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Camilo Bermudez Noguera | Alumnus |
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Margaret Bobo | Alumna |
| Ivan Bozic | Alumnus |
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Trevor Bruns | Alumnus |
| Frederick Bryan | Alumnus |
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| Ryan Burke | Alumnus |
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Leo Cai | Alumnus |
| Gabriela Caires de Jesus | Alumnus |
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Ahmet Cakir | Alumnus |
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Federico Campisano | Research Assistant |
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Robert Caprara | Alumnus |
| François-Xavier Carton | Alumnus |
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Nick Catalan | Alumnus |
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Matthieu Chabanas | Alumnus |
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Shikha Chaganti | Alumna |
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Srijata Chakravorti | Alumna |
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Zhaoyang Chen | Alumna |
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Zhanwen Chen | Alumnus |
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Ye Chen | Alumnus |
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Yue Chen | Graduate student |
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Zhanwen (Phil) Chen | Alum |
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Peter E. Clark | Alumnus |
| Logan Clements | Alumnus |
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Jarrod Collins | Alumnus |
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Davis Crews | Undergraduate Student |
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Pierre-Francois D’Haese | Alumnus |
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Kazuyuki (Kaz) Dei | Alumnus |
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Carli DeJulius | VISE Alumna |
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Giuseppe Del Giudice | Alumnus |
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TingYan (Nicholas) Deng | Alumnus |
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Kevin Derby | Undergraduate student |
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Vineet Desai | Alumnus |
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Katja Diaz-Granados | Alumna |
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Neal Dillon | Alumnus |
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Christian Di Natali | Alumnus |
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Alice Ding | Alumna |
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Jonathan Dwiyono | Alumnus |
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Roland D. Eavey | Alumnus |
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Mohamed Tarek El-Haddad | Alumnus |
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Sarah Elliott | Alumna |
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Max Emerson | Alumnus |
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James Ferguson | Alumnus |
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Loris Fichera | Alumnus |
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Adrian Florea | Alumnus |
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Chet Friday | Alumnus |
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Jason Friedman | Alumnus |
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Yipu Gao | Alumnus |
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Riqiang Gao | Alumnus |
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Nicolò Garbin | Alumnus |
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Hermela Gebremariam | Alumna |
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Mark George | Alumnus |
| Adam Gertz | Alumnus |
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Hunter Gilbert | Alumnus |
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Hernán González | VISE Alum |
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Sandra Gonzalez | Alumna |
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Jenna Gorlewicz | Alumna |
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Katie Gosbee | Alumna |
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Josephine Granna | Alumna |
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Christa Greer | Undergraduate Student |
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Rebekah Griesenauer | Alumna |
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Hayden Grobleben | Alum |
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Kanupriya Gupta | Alumna |
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Allison Hainline | Alumnu |
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Patrick Hall | Alumnus |
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Colin Hansen | Alumnus |
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Lingyan Hao | Alumna |
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Rob Harrigan | Alumnus |
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Jon Heiselman | Alumnus |
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Richard Hendrick | Alumnus |
| Killan Hett | Alumnus |
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| Brianna Jacobson | Alumna |
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Aadarsh Jha | Alumnus |
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Jasmine Jiang | Alumna |
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Canwen Jiao | Alumnus |
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Jose Jimenez | Alumnus |
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J. Ethan Joll | Alumnus |
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Rebecca Jones | Alumna |
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Dheeraj Jonnalagadda | Staff |
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Cailey Kerley | Alumna |
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Juyoung Kim | Alumnus |
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Peter E. Konrad | Alumnus |
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Lou Kratchman | Alumnus |
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Ankur Kumar | Alumnus |
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Ashwin Kumar | Alumnus |
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Alan Kuntz | Alumnus |
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Robert F. Labadie | Alumnus VISE Steering Committee Member |
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Claire Landewee | Alumna |
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Ray Lathrop | Alumnus |
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Dylan Lawless | Alumnus |
| Christopher Lee | Alumnus |
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Kelsey Leeburg | Alumna |
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Gaile Lejay | Alumna |
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Kyle Leleux | Alumnus |
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Lingfeng Li | Alumnus |
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Xiaoyue Li | Alumna |
| Bo Li | Alumnus |
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Shan Lin | Alumna |
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Sneha Lingam | Alumna |
| Jiaqi Liu | Alum |
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Yuan Liu | Alumna |
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Xiaoqi Liu | Alumna |
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Yue Liu | Alumna |
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Cindy Lin Liu | Alumna |
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Yuzhe (Bryan) Lu | Alumnus |
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Ma Luo | Alumnus |
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Ilwoo Lyu | Alumnus |
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Yimeng Ma | Alumna |
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Art Mahoney | Alumnus |
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Thomas J. Manuel | Alumnus |
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Thomas Massion | Alumnus |
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Laura Masson | Alumna |
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Christian Mathurin | Alumnus |
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Princess Mazagwu | Alumna |
| Matthew T. McKenna | Alumnus |
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Matthew Medlock | Alumnus |
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Josh Miller | Alumnus |
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Azhar Molla | Alumnus |
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Hyeonsoo Moon | Alumnus |
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Saramati Narasimhan | VISE Alumna |
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Narendran Narasimhan | Alumnus |
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Vishwesh Nath | Alumnus |
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Stephanie Nolen | Alumna |
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Andrew Orekhov | Alumnus |
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Kathryn Ozgun | Alumna |
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Srivatsan Pallavaram | Research Associate |
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Prasanna Parvathaneni | Alumna |
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Chris Pavas | Alumnus |
| Deandra Peoples | Alumna |
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Jason Pile | Alumnus |
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E. Bryn Pitt | Alumnus |
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Andrew Plassard | Alumnus |
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Megan Poorman | Alumna |
| Priyanka Prasad | Alumna |
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Sai Rajagopalan | Alumnus |
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Ashmita Rajkumar | Alumna |
| Gopikrishna M Rao | Undergraduate student |
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Tahsin Reasat | Alumnus |
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Rahul Regula | Alumnus |
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Samuel Remedios | Alumnus |
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Andria Remirez | Alumna |
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Winona Richey | Alumna |
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Katy Riojas | Alumna |
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Dominick Ropella | Alumnus |
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Margaret Rox | Alumna |
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Caleb Rucker | Alumnus |
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Nima Sarli | Alumnus |
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Bowen Shaner | Alumnus |
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Nishan Shehadeh | Alum |
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Jasmine Shu | Alumna |
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Michael Siebold | Alumnus |
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Amber Simpson | Alumna |
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Piotr R. Slawinski | Alumnus |
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Byron Smith | Alumnus |
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Dennis Sohn | Alumnus |
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Richard Song | Alumnus |
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Zachary Stoebner | Alumnus |
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Rastko Stojsin | Alumnus |
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Xujuan Sun | Alumnus |
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Phil Swaney | Alumnus |
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Addisu Z. Taddese | Alumnus |
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Benjamin D. Terrones | Alumnus |
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Viet Duc Hoang Than | Alumnus |
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Jaime Tierney | Alumna |
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Emily Tran | Alumna |
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Robert Treuting | Alumnus |
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Kathryn Ufford | Alumna |
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Rohan Vijayan | Alumnus |
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Minh Vu | Undergraduate student |
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Kristy Walsh | Alumna |
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Jianing Wang | Alumna |
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Long Wang | Alumnus |
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Jiachen Wang | Alumnus
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Jiayao Wang | Alumna |
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Xuan Wang | Alum |
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Anjie Wang | Alumnus |
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Barry Wang | Alumnus |
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Zhixiang Wang | Alumnus |
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Kyle Weaver | Alumnus |
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Jared Weis | Alumnus |
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Patrick Wellborn | Alumnus |
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Allison Whitten | Alumna |
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Kristin Wills | VISE Alumna |
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Raul Wirz-Gonzalez | Alumnus |
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Zihao Wu | Alumnus |
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Xingnan Xia | Alumna |
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Zhengkai Xie | Alumnus |
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Yunxi Xiong | Alumnus |
| Yuchen Xu | Alumnus |
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Jiachen Xu | Alumnus |
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Zhoubing Xu | Alumnus |
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Yufei Yan | Alumna |
| Xiaochen Yang | Alumnus |
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Steven (Yiyuan) Yang | Alumnus |
| Yuang Yao | Alum |
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Nino Yao | Alumnus |
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Rashid Yasin | Alumnus
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Peter York | Alumnus |
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Haoran Yu | Alumnus |
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Chang Yu | Alumnus |
| Changyuan Zhang | Alumnus |
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Tianyuan Zhang | Alumnus |
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Yuxuan(Carl) Zhang | Alumnus |
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Dongqing Zhang | Alumnus |
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Huahong Zhang | Alumnus |
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Yiyuan Zhao | Alumnus |
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Bill Zhao | Alumnus |
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Yiqi Nick Zhao | Alumnus |
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Yinchi Zhou | Alumna |
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Yifan Zhu | Alumnus |
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Zheyu Zhu | Alumnus |
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Qibang Zhu | Alumnus |