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Congratulations to Ruixing Liang for successfully defending his PhD thesis from Johns Hopkins University’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. (24 Sept 2025)

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Lab Alumni

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Johns Hopkins’ HEPIUS Innovation Lab grads shine bright: Congrats to our talented alumni!

Haley Abramson, Ph.D.

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Griffin Mess, M.S.

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Rasika Thombre, M.S.

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Kelley Kempski Leadingham

DARPA-sponsored JHU Lab

Constantin Smit

Retired

Dr. Joshua Punnoose

Globus Medical

Leonard Steger

University of Pennsylvania

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Mihir Adhikari

Nventric, Inc

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Kunal Kotkar

Surgical Vision Systems

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Curent Trainees

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Max Kerensky

PhD student, Biomedical Engineering, BME

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Ruixing Liang

PhD student, Electrical and Computer Engineering, ECE

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Carly Weber-Levine

MD Candidate: Matched to Neurosurgery residency

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Siddharth Krishnan

Predoctoral Trainee

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Avisha Kumar

PhD student, Electrical and Computer Engineering, ECE

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Kayla Robinson

Research Assistant, undergraduate student, Mechanical Engineering, MechE

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Meghana Bhimreddy

MD Candidate

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Kelly Jiang

MD Candidate

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Denis Routkevitch

MD-PhD student, Biomedical Engineering, BME

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Daniel Davidar

MD, postdoctoral scholar

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Arjun Menta

MD Candidate

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Andrew Hersh, MD

MD Candidate: Matched to Neurosurgery residency

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