Graduate Students | VISE /vise Fri, 29 May 2026 15:45:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Vivian Krause /vise/people/vivian-krause/ Fri, 17 Apr 2026 11:12:27 +0000 /vise/?post_type=visepeople&p=11856 Biomedical Engineering

Research Area:

Biophotonics, Developing Optical Technologies for Surgical Guidance

VISE Affiliate:

Anita Mahadevan-Jansen
Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Lab:

91ºÚÁÏÍø Biophotonics Center

]]> 13478 Jordan Thomposon /vise/people/jordan-thomposon/ Mon, 13 Apr 2026 16:29:47 +0000 /vise/?post_type=visepeople&p=11792 Computer Science

Education:

BA in Applied Math and Computer Science from Augustana College

Research Area:

My primary research area is in uncertainty quantification for surgical robot automation

VISE Affiliate:

Alan Kuntz, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Department of Computer Science

Lab:

Kuntz Lab

]]> 13543 Yanbin Niu /vise/people/yanbin-niu/ Mon, 09 Feb 2026 20:42:25 +0000 /vise/?post_type=visepeople&p=11736 Psychology and Human Development

Research Interests:

My research focuses on how brain structure and function emerge during the earliest stages of life, and how individual differences in this development relate to emerging behavior, emotion, and self-regulation.

 

VISE Affiliate:

Bennett Landman, PhD
Director, 91ºÚÁÏÍø Lab for Immersive AI Translation (VALIANT), Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Lab:

Medical-image Analysis and Statistical Interpretation Lab (MASI)

]]> 11736 Ema Topolnjak /vise/people/ema-topolnjak-2/ Wed, 07 Jan 2026 20:03:11 +0000 /vise/?post_type=visepeople&p=11682 Education:

BSc. in Biomedical Engineering
Eindhoven University of Technology

Research Area:

medical imaging, machine learning, image processing

Accomplishments:

cum laude BSc. Biomedical Engineering

VISE Affiliate:

Bennett Landman
Director, 91ºÚÁÏÍø Lab for Immersive AI Translation (VALIANT), Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Lab:

Medical-image Analysis and Statistical Interpretation Lab (MASI)

]]> 11682 Penelope Burns /vise/people/penelope-burns/ Wed, 07 Jan 2026 19:51:56 +0000 /vise/?post_type=visepeople&p=11680 Education:
Bachelor of Arts in Political Science
University of Tennessee, 2024
Bachelor of Arts in Sociology
University of Tennessee, 2024
Research Area:
Bioethical Governance of Surgical Data in Autonomous Robotic Assisted Surgery (RAS)
VISE Affiliate:

Jie Ying Wu
Assistant Professor, Computer Science

Lab:

Machine Automation, Perception and Learning (MAPLE)

]]> 11680 Denise Shkurovich /vise/people/denise-shkurovich/ Mon, 05 Jan 2026 18:30:21 +0000 /vise/?post_type=visepeople&p=11673 MD Candidate at 91ºÚÁÏÍø School ofÌýMedicine

Education:

Bachelor of Science
Duke University

Research Interests:

Bone health, metabolism

VISE Affiliate:

Bennett Landman, PhD
Director, 91ºÚÁÏÍø Lab for Immersive AI Translation (VALIANT), Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Lab:

Medical-image Analysis and Statistical Interpretation Lab (MASI)

]]> 11673 Gabriella Taylor /vise/people/gabriella-taylor/ Tue, 16 Dec 2025 14:43:50 +0000 /vise/?post_type=visepeople&p=11663 Computer Science

Educational Background:

BS in Neuroscience
University of Alabama in Birmingham, 2024

Research Area:

Ms. Taylor’s research is focused on the development of machine learning applications for structural and functional neuroimaging data.

VISE Affiliate:

Bennett Landman
Director, 91ºÚÁÏÍø Lab for Immersive AI Translation (VALIANT), Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Lab:

Medical-image Analysis and Statistical Interpretation Lab (MASI)

]]> 11663 Allison Dockum /vise/people/allison-dockum/ Tue, 18 Nov 2025 19:51:29 +0000 /vise/?post_type=visepeople&p=11649 Biomedical Engineering

Research Area:

Focused Ultrasound Neuromodulation

PI

Charles Caskey, PhD
Associate Professor of Radiology & Radiological Sciences

Lab

Laboratory of Acoustic Therapy and Imaging (LATI)

]]> 11649 Tanner Watts /vise/people/tanner-watts/ Fri, 14 Nov 2025 13:53:30 +0000 /vise/?post_type=visepeople&p=11531 Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research Area:

Using Probabilistic Machine Learning to Automate Surgery

VISE Affiliate:

Alan Kuntz, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Department of Computer Science

Lab:

Kuntz Lab

]]> 11531 Chloe Scholten /vise/people/chloe-scholten/ Fri, 17 Oct 2025 13:09:17 +0000 /vise/?post_type=visepeople&p=11607 Neuroscience,
University of Calgary

Education:

BSc in Exercise and Health Physiology
University of Calgary, 2023

Research area:

structural MRI to understand how prenatal alcohol exposure affects cortical morphology, and its relation to mental health problems in adolescents

Fellowships, Grants, Awards:

Canadian Neurodevelopemental Research Training Platform Fellowship
Canada Graduate Scholarship – Canadian Institute for Health Research – Hotchkiss Brain Institute Graduate Scholarship in Neuroscience

VISE Affiliate:

Bennett Landman
Director ofÌýVALIANT
Professor of Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, and Computer Science, Chancellor Faculty Fellow

Lab:

Medical-image Analysis and Statistical Interpretation Lab (MASI)

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