Sumientra Rampersad is an Assistant Professor of Physics at UMass Boston and a Visiting Assistant Research Professor of Physical Therapy, Movement and Rehabilitation Sciences at Northeastern University. Sumientra received her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Natural Sciences from the Radboud University in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. These programs included two years of fulltime research, which she completed at the departments of Applied Physics, Biophysical Chemistry, and Medical and Biophysics. After a period of traveling and teaching in Central America, she returned to Nijmegen to pursue the PhD degree. She worked at the Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre’s Department of Neurology for five years, where she performed research on transcranial stimulation and finite element modeling under the guidance of Prof. Dick Stegeman and Dr. Thom Oostendorp. After working on simulations for a biomedical company, Sumientra started a postdoctoral position at Northeastern University’s Center for SPIRAL, under the guidance of Profs. Deniz Erdogmus and Dana Brooks. In 2019, she established the Brain Stimulation & Simulation lab as a Research Assistant Professor at Northeastern. In 2021, Sumientra started a position as Assistant Professor at UMass Boston, where she established a second location for the BSS Lab. Sumientra lives in Boston, where she enjoys social latin dance, snowboarding and cake (lots of cake).

Samantha Mosher
BS Bioengineering, Northeastern University
Period: Oct 2018 -
Project: Head model construction, TIME experiments

Siddarth Simon
BS Computer Engineering / Computer Science, Northeastern University
Period: Oct 2019 -
Project: Head model construction, quantification of segmentation edits

Maciej Kos
PhD Personal Health Informatics
Period: Jun 2020 -
Project: FOCI project

Manasa Krishnan
MS Data Science, Northeastern University
Period: Sep 2021 -
Project: TIME administration

Zoia Okulova
BS Bioengineering, Northeastern University
Period: Oct 2021 -
Project: TIME experiments, head model construction

Arianna Maddox
BS Biology, UMass Boston
Period: Mar 2022 -
Project: Head model construction

Theo Favier
BS Physics, Northeastern University
Period: May 2022 -
Project: Head model construction

Salman Nadeem
PhD Physics, UMass Boston
Period: Jan 2023 -
Project: TMS-test-retest simulations

Hazel Lim
BS Psychology, Northeastern University
Period: Feb 2023 -
Project: FOCI experiments

Nicole Kim
BS Behavioral Neuroscience, Northeastern University
Period: Feb 2023 -
Project: TIME experiments

Lynna Truong
BS Pharmacy, Northeastern University
Period: Feb 2023 -
Project: TIME experiments

Reza Hajian
PhD Physics, UMass Boston
Period: Mar 2023 -
Project: Uncertainty quantification

Antony Arango
BS Pharmacy, Northeastern University
Period: Mar 2023 -
Project: TIME & ITEM experiments

Tom Cahaly
BS Bioengineering, Northeastern University
Period: Apr 2023 -
Project: TIME & FOCI experiments

Daniel Shobayo
BS Computer Engineering, UMass Boston
Period: Sep 2023 -
Project: TTF models

Sophia Dunkin
BS Psychology, Northeastern University
Period: Feb 2023 - Jul 2023
Project: FOCI experiments

Julia Pfluger
BS Psychology, Northeastern University
Period: Jan 2020 - May 2022
Project: TIME experiments

Abiha Jafri
MS Biomedical Engineering, Brown University
Period: Nov 2020 - May 2022
Project: Head model construction, sEEG modeling

Sarah Restad
BS Electrical Engineering, Northeastern University
Period: Jan 2022 - Dec 2022
Project: Modeling sulcus width

Luca Wagner
BS Psychology, VU Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Period: Sep 2021 - Jun 2022
Project: TIME experiments, head model construction

Benjamin Moss
PhD Physics, UMass Boston
Period: Sep 2021 - June 2022
Project: TIME experiments, head model construction, modeling sulcus width

Abigail Giancola
Research assistant, Northeastern University
Period: May 2021 - May 2022
Project: TIME experiments

William Peterson
BS Psychology, Northeastern University
Period: Jan 2020 - May 2022
Project: TIME experiments

Amelia Orwant
Volunteer
Period: Dec 2019 - Sep 2021
Project: TIME experiments, head model construction

Hao Chen
MS Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northeastern University
Co-advised with Prof. Dana Brooks
Period: Jan 2020 - Apr 2021
Thesis: Reconstruction of brain surface meshes using spherical harmonics

Johanna Wilson
BS Bioengineering, Northeastern University
Period: Oct 2018 - Feb 2021
Project: Head model construction

Daniella Lu
BS Behavioral Neuroscience, Northeastern University
Period: Jan 2020 - Feb 2021
Project: Head model construction

Giovanni Hsieh
BS Bioengineering, Northeastern University
Period: Oct 2019 - Jan 2021
Project: Head model construction

Dareck Hubbell
BS Psychology, Northeastern University
Period: Jan 2020 - Dec 2020
Project: TIME experiments

Angelo Novielli
BS Behavioral Neuroscience, Northeastern University
Period: Oct 2019 - Aug 2020
Project: TIME experiments

Simran Shah
BS Biomedical Engineering, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Period: Oct 2018 - Aug 2019
Project: Modeling sulcus width