2026 Spring Seminar Series 

Tuesday, January 13, 2026

Mats Forssell, Ph.D.
Research Scientist
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University

Seminar Title: Minimally-invasive neural interfaces that leverage biological pathways and mechanisms

Tuesday, January 20, 2026

Michelle Li, Ph.D.
Berkowitz Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Department of Biomedical Informatics
Harvard Medical School

Seminar Title: Contextual AI for Precision Medicine

Thursday, January 22, 2026

Wei Shao, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Quantitative Health
College of Medicine
University of Florida

Seminar Title: Generative AI in Medical Imaging

Tuesday, January 27, 2026

Yuyan Jiang, Ph.D.
Instructor
Department of Radiation Oncology
Stanford University School of Medicine

Seminar Title: Breaking the Brakes: Targeted Elimination of Immune Checkpoints to Unleash Antitumor Immunity

Thursday, January 29, 2026

Drew Beauchamp, Ph.D.

Seminar Title: TBA

Tuesday, February 3, 2026

Xilal Rima, Ph.D.

Seminar Title: TBA

Thursday, February 5, 2026 

Olga Eremina, Ph.D.
NIBIB K99/R00 Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Viterbi School of Engineering
University of Southern California

Seminar Title: Breaking the Plexity Barrier: Nanoparticle-Encoded Raman Imaging for Spatial Molecular Profiling

Tuesday, February 10, 2026 

Maya Varma, Ph.D.

Seminar Title: TBA

Thursday, February 12, 2026

Alan Amin, Ph.D.

Seminar Title: TBA

Tuesday, February 17, 2026

Namit Chaudhary, PhD
Postdoctoral Associate
Department of Immunology and Microbiology
The Scripps Research Institute

Seminar Title: Programming Immune Responses for Effectve and Durable Therapies

Thursday, February 19, 2026

Asim Gazi, Ph.D.

Seminar Title: TBA

Tuesday, February 24, 2026

Evan Wang, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Biomedical Engineering
University of Texas at Austin

Seminar Title: Design of wearable focused ultrasound electronics system and ultrasound-activated nanoparticles for long-term targeted neuromodulation