The WITNe lab would like to recognize and appreciate all of the hard work, dedication and ingenuity that our alumni have contributed to bring us to where we are now. Our alumni are unparalleled, they go on to achieve incredible and unmatched successes in this industry and beyond. We are grateful to all our present and future alumni and the WITNe community we’ve built together.
One of the most beautiful things about WITNe is how we push our members to thrive and achieve their dreams – whether that’s with us or somewhere else. We challenge each and every member to continue to grow and find new avenues for their learning and research and regardless of where they land they will always be a part of WITNe.
Members
Spencer Averbeck
Position title: Undergraduate Researcher 2019-2021
Spencer is now a PhD student Biomedical Engineering at University of Pennsylvania.
Spencer graduated from UW-Madison in 2021 in Biomedical Engineering with a focus in Bioinstrumentation. Within WITNe Spencer helped with multiple projects, through physical testing of devices and data analysis. One of his biggest accomplishments in the lab was in perfecting the fabrication of small disc electrodes.
Jenna Eizadi
Position title: WITNe Alumni
Jenna’s most rewarding project during her time with WITNe was optimizing the labs cortical neuron cell cultures. This project involved a number of scientific experiments and it’s completion enabled the advancement of research with wireless neural sensors.
Mitchell Glowdowski
Position title: WITNe Alumni
Mitchell currently works for Boston Scientific as a Process Development Engineer in their Interventional Cardiology division. He is always looking for ways to continue utilization of the skills I picked up during my time in the Hai Lab! He appreciated the experience and knowledge everyone had, and was willing, to offer.
Maïsha Kasole
Position title: Undergraduate Researcher 2019-2021
Maïsha is now a post-baccalaureate at the National Institutes of Health and has been accepted to her first MD/PhD program!
Maïsha Kasole was an undergraduate student in biomedical engineering at UW – Madison. Her special interests during her time at the UW were bioinstrumentation and computer science. Outside of academia, Maïsha is passionate about STEM outreach in underrepresented communities and medical volunteering.
Jonah Mudge
Position title: Undergraduate Researcher 2019-2021
Jonah is a PhD student in Biomedical Engineering at Case Western.
Jonah graduated from UW-Madison Spring 2021 in Biomedical Engineering and Neurobiology and a minor in Computer Science. During his time with WITNe he did everything from writing papers to characterization of nerves with TENS units.
Joseph Novello
Position title: Research Intern, 2014-2018
Joey is currently the CPO for Neuralthread.
Tsani Rogers
Position title: 2021 Graduate
Tsani worked on nitrogen vacancy based magnetometry in order to detect neural magnetic fields at high spatial resolutions. She is interested in aiding technological development in the areas of software and neuroengineering.
Erika Ross
Position title: Ludwig - Post-Doctoral Fellow 2016-2017
Erika is now the director of R&D applied Research at Abbott Neuromodulation.
Zachary Sanger
Position title: Ludwig Lab - Undergraduate Researcher - 2016-2018
Zachary is now a PhD student in Biomedical Engineering at University of Minnesota
