Lab Team

Rena received her Bachelors in Biomedical Engineering at Hofstra University with a concentration in biomechanics and research in the Hofstra Ultrasound Laboratory. She is starting a PhD at the Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering in August 2021. Her research interests include imaging diagnostics and imaging instrumentation. 

Frida Galaviz Huerta was born in Zacatecas, Mexico in 2000 and is currently pursuing an undergraduate degree at New York University. Frida studies Psychology with a triple minor in Linguistics, Chemistry, and Child/Adolescent Mental Studies (CAMS) and is interested in neuroscience research related to infants and adolescents. She graduates May 2022 and hopes to pursue a graduate degree.

Dr. Gökyar's research interests include, design, demonstration and characterization of the RF devices, instrumentation of MRI devices, high resolution MR imaging, RF safety of electronic devices, metamaterials and implantable electronic devices for wireless sensing. He has hands-on clean room experience since 2009. He recently focuses on ultra-high field (UHF) MRI and novel solutions for the problems of UHF-MRI.

Bal Govind received his M.S degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Electrical Engineering from North Carolina State University in 2018 and 2021 respectively. He worked on ultrasonic MEMS with the Advanced Technology group at TDK Invensense (San Jose) in 2019 and with the RF Amplifiers group at Texas Instruments (Dallas) in 2020 and 2021. He is pursuing his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at Cornell University with a current focus on RF integrated circuit design.

Vishwas received his B.Tech. from Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati in 2020. He is presently a first year graduate student in Physiology, Biophysics and Systems Biology (PBSB) program at Weill Cornell Graduate School and his main research interests lie in the field of computational neuroscience and systems biology. In Winkler lab he is working on MR guided Focused Ultrasound coils and their implications in targeted tissue thermal ablation for treating neuropathic pain.

Arthur Nghiem was born in Houston in 2003. After graduating from high school a year early, he is an undergraduate sophomore studying biomedical engineering at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. He is the principal inventor of the wireless communication device grip guide, for which he was granted a USPTO patent in 2017. He previously conducted literature review regarding the use of high-temperature superconductors for accessible MRI applications under the supervision of Dr. John Thomas Vaughan of Columbia University. He was nominated for the 2019 IEEE Region 4 Outstanding Student Award for his contributions to technical workshops regarding MRI safety and wireless medical devices. His work at the Winkler Lab focuses on the generation and curation of datasets for deep learning of tissue heating prediction in Ultra High-Field MRI

Nawal Panjwani is an undergraduate student in her final year at the New York University Tandon School of Engineering. She is pursuing a Bachelors in Biomolecular Science and Masters in Biomedical Engineering through the accelerated BS/MS program. She previously worked at the Kirsch Lab at NYU Langone Health where they’re researching novel mechanisms involved in the regulation of cartilage homeostasis, maintenance, and pathology with the ultimate goal of defining novel therapeutic targets for the treatment of osteoarthritis. Her current research interests include improving MRI safety by predicting Specific Absorption Rate (SAR) patterns in tissues through artificial intelligence and deep learning. She hopes to pursue a PhD in Biomedical Engineering.

Isabelle Saniour was born in Mina, Lebanon in 1991. She received her Master’s degree in Sensors, Measurement and Instrumentation from Pierre and Marie Curie University in partnership with ESPCI, Paris, France in 2013. She received the Ph.D. degree in physics from Lyon 1 University in 2017. From 2018 to 2019, she was involved in research on superconducting radiofrequency coils at University of Paris-Sud in Orsay, France. Her main research interests include the development of radiofrequency coils and hardware and the assessment of SAR for MR engineering applications.